Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Garden Updates #6
Last Friday (March 24th) some of my advisors started digging up dirt, so that they could start building the garden. Unfortunately, they ran into the roots of the mesquite tree and had to stop construction. Today, they brought in an expert arborist to assess the issue and let us know if it was okay to continue. My advisors were worried about the possibility of accidentally killing the tree, but Claud, the arborist, let us know that it was okay to proceed. In the far future, we might run into problems with the tree's roots breaking the foundation of our raised garden (since we were going to build the garden with cinder blocks), but we could just trim the roots if needed. It's definitely a good thing that the tree won't actually be an issue, so we can continue with the garden plans as is and not have to redesign.
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How would the roots be trimmed? Is this a process that will be done now, or in the far future as the roots damage the foundation?
ReplyDeleteWe'll probably just snip them off with pruning shears. Right now, we're cutting all of the parts of the roots that are interfering with the foundation for the garden, but we're just stabbing it with shovels. The trimming will be done later on, if we start to see it causing damage, but I'm not sure how far in the future that will be.
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