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I received my little seedlings from the Arbor Day foundation and followed the directions on how to plant them.
What my question is, is how often do I fertilize them? I have 4 buckets of manure tea steeping in the sun and would like to use that on them, but I don't know if they are too small, or if I would burn them. Any advice would be great....I know nothing about baby trees.
Most of the web sites that I have just checked don't say to fertilize, but, I'm sure they are talking about granular fertilizer. You might dilute that 'tea' 1:4 or 1:5 and water the plants in with it. We put in several white spruce two years ago, but, they are 6 feet tall. This spring we put some organic fertilizer for spruce at the root zone as they are making 'candles'(new growth) That's what we were told to do. You have a search engine like Google?
"Maybe one of the secrets of survival is to learn where to dance." Stanley Kunitz
Posts: 860 | Location: New Hampshire Z4 | Registered: February 11, 2002
It's best not to fertilize them this first year, organically or not. They don't need it and it's a good way to bump them off. No teas, either, just let them get going on their own. Leave a light mulch around them of like debris - evergreen debris for evergreens, oak debris for oak, etc. etc., as they would have on the natural forest floor.
