Keep grass away from tree bases

When planting new trees, some people choose to allow grass to grow right up to the trunk, while others mulch around the base. Which gives the new tree a better chance of surviving? The Pair Horticulture Center completed research on seedlings where the base had five different treatments – bare soil maintained with grasskilling herbicide, mulched 3” deep, and three different grass species to ...

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