DEEP PLANTING: A RADICAL NEW IDEA FOR SUSTAINABLE GARDENING^©

If I were to advise you to dig a planting hole one metre deep and bury the stem of a new planting of a shrub or tree way below ground level, most horticulturists would be horrified. The conventional wisdom is that this would be a death sentence for the plant, dooming it to demise by collar rot of the submerged stem. A few years ago I would have agreed wholeheartedly, but a meeting with electrical engineer and amateur horticulturist Mr. Bill Hicks a few years ago has completely changed my thinking on establishing plants in areas where supplementary irrigation is difficult or non-existent.