Did you know that for every vehicle purchased from the Hannah family of dealerships, a tree is planted? It’s true!
I know something about planting trees; many, many years ago I was a tree planter. I did a lot of reforestation in Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, and Northern Wisconsin; Loblolly Pine, a hybrid, was the tree of choice. I won’t kid you, I planted a lot of toilet paper too I’m sure. Our “tribe” of planters consisted of a variety of people. There was Misty and Malaciah with their young children Andre, Dori and Rainbow Sky. There was Susan and Fritz, Frank and Jim, Harley, Francisco, Concha, Melissa and Linda “Melinda” Peter, Carol, Jeff, Tom and the Laurent Boys to name a few. We all had different back rounds and different reasons for living on the sight in Teepees, tents, converted school buses, homemade campers and right under the stars for weeks at a time. As for my friend and their children it was about living off the grid and teaching the kids about Mother Earth while providing them with love and lifelong skills. Others it was a way to make good money doing hard work for half a year and living somewhere warm on a beach for the other half. I was into green before green was green and didn’t even know it. I did it because it was an adventure and I really didn’t know any better. We used Hodads (Ax handle planting devise) that you’d plunge into the grownd with one had while pulling a tree out of your tree pack with the other. You’d pull back the earth, lay the yearling in the grown while packing the dirt around it with the back side of the blade, all while gently pulling the tree up to keep the roots straight before stomping the ground near it with your foot to seal the deal. If you had some skill you could do this in seconds, seamlessly. I grew to do it that way but not until after hundreds of trees because I wanted every one of my trees to survive. “Deep, straight and tight… R.A.G.E plants it RIGHT!” (Riley Agricultural Enterprises.) This was Dave and Andy, Riley’s company “The Riley Bothers, Outstanding in their field” You have to use your imagination a bit here. See, we planted trees in a field and they (the Riley’s) were usually out (somewhere,) standing in them. :)
Anyway; No J, L or U roots for me. If any of your trees were planted with their roots bent, the likely hood of them making it very long was slim to none. So it makes me feel good knowing every tree that the Hannah’s have planted is being done by professional tree planters.
Who knows, maybe it’s one of my old tree plantin’ buddies. I’d like to think it is.