How to Plant Bare Root, B&B and Container Trees + Pros & Cons

Emily Mumford from Davey's South St. Paul office shares the scoop on bare root, balled and burlapped (B&B) and container trees, including the pros and cons of each and how to plant them effectively. In this episode we cover: What are bare root trees? (:53) How to plant bare root trees (3:18) (4:42) What are container trees? (6:14) What to do if your container tree has girdling roots (7:21) Additional planting tips for container trees (11:10) Pros of B&B trees (12:54) Planting B&B trees (14:53) (15:31) How do you decide which of the three trees is best to plant? (16:06) Emily's career journey (17:42) To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code. To learn additional tree planting tips, read our blog, Tree Planting Guide: 3 Methods of Planting Trees or watch our two-part YouTube video series, How to Plant a Tree: Part 1 and How to Plant a Tree: Part 2 . Connect with Davey Tree on social media: Twitter: @DaveyTree Facebook: @DaveyTree Instagram: @daveytree YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com . Have topics you'd like us to cover on the podcast? Email us at podcasts@davey.com . We want to hear from you! Click here to send Talking Trees Fan Mail!