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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yoby" data-source="post: 161666" data-attributes="member: 631">Over the last 5 years I probably have planted 1000 trees. First trees were arborvitaes. Used my tiller to loosen the ground went back through with hand shovel. planted 75 in that line and placed 2ft x 2ft fabric around them. I still have to replace another 14 this year do to die back. Planted about 200 evergreens in prairie. Did the same thing. tilled, shoveled, but this time I spread them out enough to get a brush hog/lawn mower in there. Only thing I do is mow around them.  These have turned out awesome. Another 200 trees this way has yielded the same results. I the picked up a 12in auger for my tractor. Have planted quite a few with just a quite shovel to remove sod and then auger to loosen the soil. This has had mixed results. One thing that I have found is that leaving some weeds around the trees creates a catch. It catches more snow & rain and around the base of the tree stays more moist. Several other I have just driven along with the tractor/auger and popped holes. depending on the tree type it work very well or horrible. All my junipers have made it this way, but no deciduous trees did. I am in the protection mode this year. Alot of my trees are hitting the 3-4 ft tall and the buck starting beat the crap out of them last fall. Picking up a lot of fence posts and going to be pound posts on 3 or 4 sides to keep the bucks at bay.</blockquote>