It is so easy to ask someone
plant a tree but putting sapling into the soil and then grow it as full tree is
not an easy task. It needs your resolve, your care and your sense of going
green because it takes time for a sapling to be fully grown. That is why more
than half of the saplings planted all over the world could not have reached to
the level of full tree because of its lack of care. Most people just plant a
tree and then care it very casually to grow it full.
Here are 30 practical tips to
plant a tree and make it fully grown with your continuous care to enjoy its
benefits of fresh air, shadow and its fruits and flowers.
1. Make a pledge
For every good action you need to
make a resolve first. Your resolve to plant a sapling is actually a booster for
you to keep taking care of it and take it to the level of fully grown tree. You
can also tell others about your pledge. In this way you will be bound to uphold
your pledge till the end of your good action.
2. Make a plan
Just a pledge is not enough. You
also need to make a plan to decide the following matters.
- Where to plant a tree?
- Which tree you want to plant?
- Do you do this alone or with other friends?
3. Involve community
Please remember tree is not the
personal property of anyone, if it is planted in an open area. So why should
you alone do the whole work from planting a sapling to watering it regularly,
protecting it from wind pressure and animals and then grow it to full tree. If
you live in a community motivate others to join you in this cause and make it a
collective venture.
4. Select area
It is not enough to just select a
location. You need to mark the exact place where you want to plant a tree.
After that you will be able to move forward to take further steps to put your
plan into practice.
5. Make its survey
After that you need to make
survey of the exact place. You have to check if it is personal property of
someone. Or does government has any plan to commercialize that place and sell
it in future.
6. Future development around it
Apart from making survey of the
exact location you need to check possibility of developments in future like
installations of poles for electricity, telephone or any other energy supply.
If there is any plan like that it is possible your fully grown tree is cut for
the sake of development.
7. Fulfill formalities
If the place you selected for
this purpose belongs to community plot you need to take permission from the
civic agency. Without permission you can face problem in future and you cannot
stop its cutting if you planted it without permission. So make your plan viable
and get all necessary permissions if any.
8. Select tree specie
This is the most important point.
You need not to follow you desire while selecting the specie of tree you want
to plant. Usually people like to select specie that grows fruits but you have
to see soil condition for this purpose.
9. Seek advice
For this purpose you need to get
consultancy of any forestry expert and he will tell you which specie will grow
easily after analyzing the soil condition and availability of water in the
area.
10. Keep economic value up
But ask the forestry expert to
explore possibility of planting specie of tree that gives fruit. In this way it
will have value and people will collectively take care of it to enjoy its
fruits.
11. Buy the sapling
Now you have to go to nearby
nursery and buy the specie of tree as suggested by the forestry expert. You
should buy it on the same day when you have to put it into the soil for
growing.
12. Circle the area
Once you decide the specie, exact
place and get the necessary permission now you have to draw a circle at the
place where you would put the sapling inside the soil.
13. Dig the hole
First of all with the help or
advice of a gardener you need to dig the hole. Its radius, diameter and depth
should be fully measured as advised by the forestry expert and gardener.
14. Plant sapling
Now the main action of your whole
plan; just put the sapling at the right place in the dug hole and then fill the
soil in the hole by letting the branch of the sapling to stay atop on the land.
15. Put the fence
To protect the sapling from wind
pressure and from pye-animals you need to put a fence around the sapling. For
this you can buy a wooden or iron fence depending upon your budget.
16. Put the balancing rope
After one to two months when
sapling grows a little you can also tie it with rope with the rounding fence to
keep it in balance. You need to do it if the sapling leans down in one
direction.
17. Organic fertilizer
You must select the organic
fertilizer to grow your tree. It is generally made with the help of composting
of kitchen waste and doesn’t have any harmful elements in it. Composting is a
natural process through which you change the organic kitchen waste into organic
fertilizer by putting it into deep dig for some time. It is easily available at
any green fertilizer shop.
18. Water regularly
You need to water regularly with
fixed intervals. The amount of water should neither be less nor be more because
it may harm the growth of your sapling.
19. Put a motivation plaque
A plaque just beside the fence
with names of people who planted the sapling will let others know about the
people behind your green cause. Others may be motivated and plan the same green
action in their area.
20. Get a checkup
When your sapling is half grown,
you need to get it checked up by the forestry expert to know if there is any
problem with it.
21. Keep watering
When your tree is about to fully
grown you need not stop watering assuming that it will now suck its required
water through its roots from the soil. You have to water it till the time you
are advised by the forestry expert.
22. Keep cleaning
You should clean the area around
the sapling and also clean the trunk if something is stuck on it to make its
tidy look.
23. Ask community to wait for fruit
After your planted tree is fully
grown and if it is a fruit tree ask the community to wait for the fruit. Don’t
let anyone pick the fruit in its raw form. That will be worthless and it is
better to wait till the fruit is fully ripened.
24. Distribute first reap in community
Distribute the first reap of the
fruit of your planted tree in community to motivate others to follow your suite
and plant more trees. In this way people will come to know the immediate
benefits of a tree.
25. Plant more
This must be your ultimate
objective of planting a sapling. You should do the whole process in a way to
not only motivate others to plant trees more and more but you also keep
planting trees wherever you find an opportunity to do so.
26. Repeat the process
Initially you should select the
place just beside the tree you recently fully grown. You plant another tree
there and repeat the whole process as much time as possible.
27. Develop habit of tree planting
You do the whole process of tree
plantation in a way that it not only becomes you habit but other people also
make it their habit.
28. Spread the whole story
Tell others the whole story of your
planting a tree and also show them photographs of the process from start to end
to influence other people to go green
29. Try to publish tree story in paper
You should also publish this
story in your city’s or regional newspapers to tell people about your green
success and invite them to visit the site of your tree.
30. Put it on blog
If you have a blog, publish this
story on it or write a guest post for any green blog which you read.
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