How Do You Plant Biodegradable Paper Pots (Or Pulp Pots)?
Many nurseries are selling trees and shrubs planted in paper pots (also known as pulp pots) that are meant to be planted, pot and all, in the ground. Many times these are plants that nurseries used to sell bare-root (with no pot at all), but after unstable soil situations leading to expensive plant loss, the nursery trade has moved into the paper pot planting technique. The environmental impact of using biodegradable pots is a positive step in the nursery business. There are a few tricks to planting any plant that is grown in a paper/pulp pot: Step 1 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4688233/AAA001_Full.jpg’); }); Paper Pot Once you’ve chosen the location for your plant installation (sun and soil requirements should be included on the plant tag) dig the planting hole approximately twice as wide as the pot (the wider the better so that the soil is loose and easy to root into) and jus
