Posted by Trish Brown on November 1, 2009, 4:43 pm
I have three young casuarinas near my fence line. I'm thinking of adding
more garden beds along there, but that would entail piling about 40cm
more soil on top of the casuarina roots to build up the beds. My husband
reckons this will kill them. Since the trees are now about fifteen feet
tall and doing well, I'd rather not do that. But I want my garden beds too!
Any ideas? Solutions? Comments?
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Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Posted by David Hare-Scott on November 1, 2009, 5:16 pm
Trish Brown wrote:
> I have three young casuarinas near my fence line. I'm thinking of
> adding more garden beds along there, but that would entail piling
> about 40cm more soil on top of the casuarina roots to build up the beds.
> My
> husband reckons this will kill them. Since the trees are now about
> fifteen feet tall and doing well, I'd rather not do that. But I want
> my garden beds too!
> Any ideas? Solutions? Comments?
I have seen this kill trees. I cannot say if it kills all trees or if
casuarinas are particularly susceptible or not.
David
Posted by terryc on November 1, 2009, 7:08 pm
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:43:46 +1100, Trish Brown wrote:
> I have three young casuarinas near my fence line. I'm thinking of adding
> more garden beds along there, but that would entail piling about 40cm
> more soil on top of the casuarina roots to build up the beds. My husband
> reckons this will kill them. Since the trees are now about fifteen feet
> tall and doing well, I'd rather not do that. But I want my garden beds
> too!
>
> Any ideas? Solutions? Comments?
IME it will not affect casuarinas in the slightest. They will quite
happily suck up everything you throw on the garden.
Posted by Trish Brown on November 1, 2009, 8:03 pm
terryc wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:43:46 +1100, Trish Brown wrote:
>
>> I have three young casuarinas near my fence line. I'm thinking of adding
>> more garden beds along there, but that would entail piling about 40cm
>> more soil on top of the casuarina roots to build up the beds. My husband
>> reckons this will kill them. Since the trees are now about fifteen feet
>> tall and doing well, I'd rather not do that. But I want my garden beds
>> too!
>>
>> Any ideas? Solutions? Comments?
>
> IME it will not affect casuarinas in the slightest. They will quite
> happily suck up everything you throw on the garden.
>
I kinda hoped that would be the case, being that casuarinas are riverine
trees and suffer inundantion and changing soil depths all the time. I
hope there's someone out there who's actually done something like this?
It'd feel a lot better knowing someone had been successful with it, y'know?
--
Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Posted by terryc on November 1, 2009, 8:20 pm
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:03:53 +1100, Trish Brown wrote:
> I kinda hoped that would be the case, being that casuarinas are riverine
> trees and suffer inundantion and changing soil depths all the time. I
> hope there's someone out there who's actually done something like this?
> It'd feel a lot better knowing someone had been successful with it,
> y'know?
Well, we had one in the back garden that a bit taller and it hasn't
suffered one little bit from the 1' of raised vege garden bed running
across half its root zone. Those roots grew just nicely. Now all I need
is a good recipe for them {:-).
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> adding more garden beds along there, but that would entail piling
> about 40cm more soil on top of the casuarina roots to build up the beds.
> My
> husband reckons this will kill them. Since the trees are now about
> fifteen feet tall and doing well, I'd rather not do that. But I want
> my garden beds too!
> Any ideas? Solutions? Comments?