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RE: Planting Blackberries - Another Step In Building Our Food Forest
Very cool. (I don't have an auger, so hand dig all our holes.) Have you ever expierimented with non-round wholes? I've read that circular wholes can act almost as a container or barrier for roots. Perhaps this just pertains to really hard, clay-type soil?
Yes I think that depends on the soil, but we are experimenting with deep holes vs trenches and so far haven’t seen much of a difference. Our soil is pretty loamy, but we do have quite a few rocks which makes hand digging tough. When we put up our garden last year, it included putting large timber around the perimeter for the fencing... the hubs got an auger to make that job do able and its just been an easy way to get some holes dug quickly haha. I do try to losen the sides to encourage roots to grow horizontally as well.
Thank you!
Wow, I didn’t even know that there is a tool to dig round holes!
I guess we are kind of primitive around here :)
Nice job and nice post @llfarms. Thank you for sharing!