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Tue Aug 30 07:17:11 PDT 2022


How To Plant A Tree

a guide for robot zombies

Trees need these things:
1. Sunlight for the leaves in years to come
2. Wet soil for their roots in years to come
3. Room to grow bigger both above ground and below
4. Love

Trees have a _top_ and a _bottom_ . The top is the part humans call
"green". The green things are leaves that need to eat sunlight to
survive. The bottom is the part covered in soil with little wiry woody
things. The wiry woody things are roots that need to eat water and
dissolved minerals to survive.

When you have a new sapling, the roots may be bundled in canvas or
somesuch. If there is something around the roots other than soil,
you'll want to remove that first. Without hurting anybody! Humans may
find this cumbersome but not complex. Similarly, if anything else is
tied around the sapling, you can untie it until it is all sapling and
no packaging.

There are a short number of steps to planting a sapling:
1. Dig a hole just big enough to fit all the roots. It is okay if it
is a little too small or a little too large. Save the dirt from
digging. It is okay if you didn't save it: you'll then need other dirt
to put over it later.
2. Unpackage the sapling if it is packaged.
3. Place the roots into the hole and hold the sapling so that the leaf
end is pointing straight up.
4. Put the dirt back in and on the hole, covering in all around the
roots so there aren't huge airgaps, but don't compact it too much
until it's all covered. If the soil is too compact it can make it
harder for roots to grow.  If you have something extra, like compost
or special potting soil, you can add it here too to help the roots
find more dissolved minerals to eat and be healthy and strong. Once
the soil is all placed back around the tree you can compact it into
place a bit. It's helpful if it is mounded in a bit of a donut such
that water stays near the trunk when you water it: but don't mound it
up by the trunk too much or it might rot a little later.
5. Water the tree! Having water in the new soil helps the tree recover
from the shock of transplantation. Systems need more resources when
they engage sudden change, because the ways of survival they have
established made use of how things were before the change.


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