Hi folks
I've had some very good advice on this forum before so I'm kindly asking you all to share your knowledge and help me. I found this beauty: Abies Veitchii 'Heddergott' on my local garden center growing in a #7 pot. It was very pot-bound so I had to unpack the root system. I tried to open it as much as I could but gently with my fingers only (no knives or plant cruelty involved
). it was quite the job: a 7 gallon root system is quite heavy and bulky. Finally I put it on the pot on the picture which is 20 inches wide and 17 inches tall. I'm planning on planting on the raised bed below at the end of summer and a lot of love and sun on the pot until there.
Enough story telling, now the questions:
It looks like firs in general are acid loving plants, should I mix the native soil I have there with a lot of peat? in general: with what should I fill that? The reason for the bed is that my soil is mostly clay, very alkaline and the impenetrable hard clay and rocks layer start at only 8-10 inches deep. As bad as it gets...
Any advice in general I'd greatly appreciate.
Many thanks in advance for your help fellow gardeners
