[How] to Plant a Tree (Containerized Trees )

How to Plant a Tree (with Pictures)

[How] to Plant a Tree (Containerized Trees )

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And of course, what gets labeled as marketing in the budget are funds spent to get Ecosia ads in front of your eyeballs, but the real marketing is the trees themselves. There are plenty of options if you don’t want your search history tracked, but only one if you want your query on Nina Simone’s deep cuts to put saplings in the ground.Nurture Nature Margins in hand, Ecosia works with organizations that plant trees by the thousands and tens of thousands in biodiverse regions, and without the use of child labor or chemical pesticides. Of course, much of reforestation happens in areas that have been deforested, and if Ecosia’s partners cannot address the existing incentives to chop down trees—namely a need for agricultural land, firewood, and timber—the company might take its funds elsewhere. Community buy-in is essential for the sustainability of a project.

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“It’s easy to plant trees,” says Kroll, “but it’s very difficult to make sure they stay standing.”
The planting itself can bring paid labor to the community, and from there the planting organization often works to show how the harvest, branches, and soil benefits make the tree more valuable in the ground than felled. Whether those efforts succeed obviously changes case by case, and year to year.

Kroll says Ecosia monitors the ongoing progress of each planting project it funds, and may reduce future donations to an organization if it is unable to put or keep trees in the ground. Ecosia gets into the weeds on these issues and many others with each organization they work with.

The partner organizations that responded to my inquiries described a lengthy process of working with Ecosia to determine where, when, and how many trees would be planted in a specific area. Trees for the Future, for instance, wrote, “We anticipate planting 1,200,000 trees through the four-year project. As of August 2019, 598,896 trees have been planted in our Kaffrine 3 project [in Senegal] through Ecosia’s support.”

How to Plant Containerized Trees 

Hommes et Terre, which received close to a million euros from January to July of 2019 for its work in Burkina Faso, described a similarly detailed three-year plan that it hammered out with Ecosia.

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In making their own operation sustainable, Ecosia’s founders foresaw a growing threat: their company’s value. As it grows, the possibility of cashing out becomes weightier. After all, with 50 percent margins, there is plenty of room to provide shareholder dividends while still putting an impressive number of trees in the ground. Kroll and the other executives could sell, become millionaires, and move onto whatever sort of project they’re in the mood for. So, they legislated away their power to do so.

Ecosia describes itself as a “purpose company,” meaning, according to Kroll, that a foundation holds 1 percent of its shares, 99 percent of its capital, and veto rights over any sale of the company. Ecosia is not permitted to issue shareholder dividends, and only employees can be shareholders. In order to sell, the foundation would have to be convinced that the sale will result in more trees being planted.

Beneath all of this is the assumption that planting trees is a good idea. To Kroll, it’s nearly good enough to stop climate change.

“We have enough space to plant 1.2 trillion trees. If we planted these trees, we could almost completely solve climate change. To plant these trees we would need 1 percent of the global military budget. It’s way more cost-effective than renewable energy, electric cars. I think it’s underestimated.”

How big a piece of the carbon pie can be handled through tree planting alone is a live debate among climate scientists, but all will acknowledge it can be a meaningful part of the solution. Add in the benefits to the surrounding economy and ecosystem, and it’s hard to argue with tree planting as a worthy use of available funds. (Though even this requires a caveat: a recent IPCC report noted that mass tree-planting initiatives could significantly raise food prices.) That said, truly solving climate change will inevitably involve real changes in how we live and transport ourselves. Trees help, but, to summarize a jungle of a climate debate, it’s more complicated than that.


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Adkins, Tressa - 6 p.m., Bethel Baptist Church, Spring Hill.

Angel, Larry - 1 p.m., St. Albans Church of the Nazarene, St. Albans.

Brown, Clara - Noon, Jackson County Memory Gardens, Cottageville.

Conley, Billy - 6 p.m., Evans Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Chapmanville.

Ellis, Emert - 11 a.m., Evans Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Chapmanville.

Green, Judy - Noon, Stevens & Grass Funeral Home, Malden.

Hackney, Teddy - 2 p.m., Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes.

Hager, Naomi - 1 p.m., Montgomery Memorial Park Chapel, London.

Higginbotham, Alice - 2 p.m., First Baptist Church, St. Albans.

Hill, Peggy - 2 p.m., Handley Funeral Home, Danville.

Hunter, Lauria - 1 p.m., Hafer Funeral Home, Elkview.

Lewis, James - 11 a.m., Buffalo Memorial Park, Buffalo.

Mull, Melanie - 3 p.m., McGhee - Handley Funeral Home, West Hamlin.

Radford, David - 11 a.m., Fidler & Frame Funeral Home, Belle.

Shingleton, Carole - 11 a.m., Gatens-Harding Funeral Home Chapel, Poca.

Sigman Sr., Ralph - Noon, Casdorph & Curry Funeral Home, St. Albans.

Snyder, Jeffrey - 1 p.m., Leavitt Funeral Home, Parkersburg.

Spaulding, Gladys - 11 a.m., Chapman Funeral Home, Hurricane.

Stone, Judith - 2 p.m., Wilcoxen Funeral Home, Point Pleasant.

Taylor, Naomi - 1 p.m., Dodd & Reed Funeral Home, Webster Springs.

Webb, Tommy - 7 p.m., Loudendale Freewill Baptist Church, Charleston.

Williams, Jennie - 2 p.m., Bartlett-Nichols Funeral Home, St. Albans.


Jacobson: Fall is a great time to plant shade trees
Trees define the landscape. They provide shade and definition to yards. They soften the starkness of structures, screen unwanted views and provide shelter for wildlife. Their value increases as they grow. It is important to carefully choose, place and plant your trees.

November is an excellent time to plant trees. Trees lose their leaves and are no longer making food. They also cut their water uptake. Planting in fall reduces the shock larger plants go through when planted during warmer months.

Tree selection should take into account several factors, including eventual size. If a tree grows very fast, it could be a problem if planted too close to your house. Find out if the tree has characteristics that may not be desirable for your yard. For example. Bradford pears split, dogwoods get disease, silver maples have aggressive roots and cypress have bagworm problems. Make sure the tree can tolerate our climate.

Once you decide what tree to plant and where to plant it, you are ready to purchase it. Buy trees from a reputable nursery that offers a guarantee. Make sure branches are free of diseases or insects. Avoid trees with trunks that have multiple leaders or with branches that come out at sharp angles. These trees tend to split in heavy ice storms or windy conditions.

Planting a shade tree is not technically difficult. The hard part is the muscle work. Frequently, the most difficult part is just getting the tree to the hole. If you have a very large tree to plant, make plans to get it to the site. If this is too difficult, consider hiring the nursery or a landscape contractor to install the trees. Although more expensive, consider the long-term results. These trees will be there long after you are gone, so it pays to do it right the first time.

If you plant a tree yourself, most of your energy will go into digging the hole. The hole should be at least 12 inches wider than the root ball. It should be dug no deeper than the depth of the root ball. Do not discard the soil unless it is of very poor quality. Carefully mix organic matter with the soil you dug out of the hole. Compost or peat moss work well.

Cut the rope at the top of the root ball. Also, cut the burlap on top and pull it down. If plastic burlap is used, remove before planting. Failure to do so could strangle the tree as it gets larger. If the tree came in a wire basket, do not remove the basket, but take wire cutters and snip the wires in several places. This will minimize the effect on the roots as they get larger over the years.

Constructing a small retention ring around the outside of the hole will make watering more effective. Mulch the area with shredded mulch to a depth of 3 inches. Be careful the mulch does not directly contact the trunk.

Pruning should only be done to remove broken or misshapen branches. Tree wrap is probably not necessary. Unless your tree is over 10 feet high, it is not necessary to stake unless the tree is in a particularly windy spot.

Trees still take up water in the fall, so a good watering once a week issufficient. Rainfall usually takes care of this for you.

Trees add so much value to our properties. Proper planning and planting will ensure a lifetime benefit. How many things do you do that actually get better with time? Planting a tree is one of them.

For more information on the master gardener program, upcoming classes or tree selection for west central Nebraska, contact the West Central Research and Extension Center at 308-696-6781