If you’re one of those admirable people to have made a street guard to protect your street tree, please make sure that you do not raise the soil above ground level in the process. The soil needs to stay at roughly the same level it was when the tree was planted, or the trunk may rot over time. Elevated soil levels also stop water from penetrating the root system.
\nHere are a couple of online guards for good street pits.
\nhttp:\/\/www.treesny.com\/trees_pitguards.htm
\nhttp:\/\/www.dcgreenworks.org\/UrbanForestry\/treepitguards.html<\/p>\n
The second link also has a handy guard for making your own wood tree guard. It’s cheap (only about $50), easy, and takes only an hour or so.<\/p>\n
I realize this is not a proper question but I’ve seen so many bad tree guards around Brooklyn that it’s gettin’ my goat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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