“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost warnings. “Potted trees, if dormant, are fine once the soil thaws,” she adds.

Another technique is to use the sharp tool to go up from the bottom of the root ball, about two-thirds the distance between the bottom and top roots. Rotate the root ball 90 degrees and cut up again.

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PORTAGE, Mich. — The City of Portage is planting hundreds of trees this fall in an effort to reforest some areas hardest hit by the tornado in May of last year. What once used to be a beautiful, ...

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