Watering Newly Planted Trees And Shrubs

Bare root trees balled and burlapped trees and container trees all require regular and consistent watering until their root systems reestablish.

Watering newly planted trees and shrubs.

In a hot dry summer with little cloud cover and no rain your new plants will need to be watered. Every 4 days if the soil holds water. 1 2 weeks after planting water daily. So continue to water as long as you can.

Proper watering is the single most important maintenance factor in the care of transplanted trees. When to water. They should be watered at planting time and at these intervals. Stop watering trees both evergreen and deciduous throughout early autumn until the time when the leaves of the deciduous trees fall this remarkable change on the deciduous trees serves as a useful indicator whereas their evergreen counterparts being relatively unchanging offer little in the way of guidance this stoppage in watering will allow both evergreen and.

3 12 weeks after planting water every 2 to 3 days. Newly planted trees and shrubs should be thoroughly soaked with water two or three times per week for the first month. Every 2 days if the soil is very dry and or sandy. After that period water weekly during their first growing season.

Watering a newly planted tree depends on things like the amount of rainfall you get in your area wind conditions temperatures what season it is and how well the soil drains. Trees and shrubs especially evergreens and newly planted trees need ample water in their root systems as they go into winter. Too much or too little water can result in tree injury. After 12 weeks water weekly until roots are established.