Planting Too Deeply of Peach
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Planting too deeply increases soil moisture around roots, decreases oxygen availability, and often predisposes trees to root diseases such as Phytophthora root rot. These stressed trees generally have reduced growth and fewer, smaller leaves. Foliage may be lighter in color and eventually turn yellow. Tree death follows.
Planting too deeply predisposed this tree to Phytophthora infections and led to tree death.
(Photo: John Strang, University of Kentucky)
Note that the soil level on this trunk is well above the root collar.
(Photo: John Strang, University of Kentucky)
Management:
- Plant trees at the same depth that they were planted in the nursery.
