Fixing wet roots

[Olpea]

@benthegirl

When people are planting on mounds- they are pretty big. And soil. Look at @Olpea’s peach trees. The mounds are FEET tall. I don’t exactly know where you are in FL but the drainage is a known problem.

I agree with all the comments, that in really wet areas, best to have enough dirt above grade for the tree to sustain itself.

Here’s an old thread where it shows new terraces, before settling. I think they were about 4’ tall in the middle and 11’ wide. I built them with the blade in the videos, but I’ve also built them with a skid steer. And, I’ve even built them by hand in my yard, by dumping a few 5 gallon buckets of dirt on the soil every day till the mound is big enough. You eat an elephant a bite at a time.

Fruit Trees in a Flood Plain

Here are a couple videos I posted late last summer building more terraces. I originally videoed these for the benefit of any interested customers on my social media. [Motor grader #1] [Motor Grader #2] I recognize not all people will need equipment this large to build raised plantings. I’ve also used skid loaders to build mounds, as well as built them by hand in my back yard. Additionally I’ve built mounds in my backyard by renting a small stand up loader (small mac…

Agree with all the comments that the cherry tree looks to have canker. But I also might check the base for borers.