Fruits and Nuts: Mulching around new fruit trees, 1 by Sarahskeeper

Sarahskeeper wrote:
Core, he has three Bell of Georgia peach, three apples and 3 pears. They all came from a local supplier so they should be ok in our zone. He intends to mulch them with shredded leaves for the winter & clean it up in spring. It's too late in the season to put down grass seed and it wont get within 2 feet of the trees next spring. He needs something to control erosion.
Rose, hemlock sounds good after the spring cleaning. Thanks for mentioning tree wrap. He also takes in feral cats and they love young trees. He protects his other fruit with an ingenious loose wire fence wrap.
This has been a big project because someone gave him 9 trees he never asked for. The giver expected them to go in my buddy's field but he likes his empty field. So they are going on the edge along our mutual property line.
The pic shows a portion of what had to be cleared. Knot weed, sumac, linden and wild cherry trees along with some nasty thorny vines. The field would have been SO much easier, lol.