04-07-2017, 07:39 PM
For me, It is all about how much time & effort I need to dig the bloody holes...
In planting the trees we have in our little garden, I have dug up enough rocks to build ~ 200ft of 3foot tall loose stack rock wall...after paying to haul-off one small dump truck of boulders..
If I am going to spend an hour to a half day leveraging out rock to plant a tree, you can darn well bet I want the tree to do well... & I have found that getting the best selection of trees (like the selection you have at a PlantIt Hawaii sale) to be well worth the investment...
But I have learned that I cannot go to any plant sale unless I dig the holes first .... the myriad of choices ends up in my "OOOHHH I WANT ONE OF THESE!" followed by buyers hole-digging remorse!
Plus I am much more choosey about which plants deserve the work I have put into the pre-dug boulder excavations..
In planting the trees we have in our little garden, I have dug up enough rocks to build ~ 200ft of 3foot tall loose stack rock wall...after paying to haul-off one small dump truck of boulders..
If I am going to spend an hour to a half day leveraging out rock to plant a tree, you can darn well bet I want the tree to do well... & I have found that getting the best selection of trees (like the selection you have at a PlantIt Hawaii sale) to be well worth the investment...
But I have learned that I cannot go to any plant sale unless I dig the holes first .... the myriad of choices ends up in my "OOOHHH I WANT ONE OF THESE!" followed by buyers hole-digging remorse!
Plus I am much more choosey about which plants deserve the work I have put into the pre-dug boulder excavations..