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OK. what I've done here. I've put it in the pot. There's no soil in here at the moment.
It's to get my measurement and to, I'm going to try and show you,
make sure that I've got an adequate amount of space around the pot, around the tree.
So when I start to put the soil in, which I want it to be slightly, slightly raised here to get my level.
This is going to be the front. This was my guide if you remember and then we can work in.
So I'm going to proceed now to do this.
Just move my baby over. Just let it rest there, and I'm just going to put a fair layer in.
This is Mark's special soil.
There's around four different ingredients in there and that's what he makes for deciduous trees.
And there's not been a complaint yet.
So we're going to put, just make sure that's nice and even over the base,
and then just a little mound in the middle,
A triangular bit.
Get that bit in there. Just try and show you that there.
A little bit in the middle so I'm going to sit the tree on there, then
positioning begins.
I like this point of just...
Give it a little wiggle, shift left, right just to help settle it down into that bed, OK,
and it's just, what I'd like to do is just, sort of check, and this is me.
I just sometimes get just a bit over paranoid, just what I perceive to be the centre of the tree.
There I think, if I gently turn it round, the positioning of my tree.
And I feel that this is quite an important stage because once this is in, once you've put the earth in,
that's it, you've wired it up and that's it.
One of my trees I repotted and I said to Mark, I've repotted the tree and I went through the whole
process but I missed out this particular part of the process,
the positioning of where you'd like to see your tree in the pot.
And that was a big learning curve.
So the more trees you repot, the more you learn about positioning,
and I put this tree in the pot and said to Mark, I'm really unhappy with it. Shall I take it out and redo it?
And he said, no, let it settle down now. You'll get the opportunity. Let the health of the tree come first
and in then two year's time or three year's time, then repot it,
and you know exactly where you're going to do it the next time you repot it.
So the learning curve is with the doing and I firmly believe in that,
so now I'm going to apply more of Mark's special ingredients,
and just systematically work him around the pot.
First of all,
So I started off quite gentle and than learned that you've got to be just that little bit firmer to make sure that ...
It really does vibrate under.
I'm holding the tree in place just making sure that that goes down, OK, compressing that in, and as you can see,
as I begin to build up and the soil begins to go under and support the tree, the tree...
just show you, begins to, you see how it's not now shaking.
It's a bit more solid in its pot. So we've got that
soil to sort of go under
So these are handy little
handy little tips
I wanted to go over the root ball and not over the root so I don't want to wire it like that,
over my roots, so it's got to come through the root so I want that to come over
here and just get this started
Just want to try to show you on the camera here is we pull, turn and we can feel it tightening down.
So it's pull, twist, pull, twist and I can feel with my finger here, where that is tightening down, OK.
Now I'm not going to carry on there at the moment. I want to do this side so that I've got,
I work systematically even to help balance the tension
One of my first trees that I repotted and it was still a little bit loose and I was very unconfident and unsure about it,
and I just realised that I made a complete mistake by not securing it.
So I had to then tie it into the pot which, sadly, doesn't always look good if you want your trees out on show,
but that's just one of the experiences and the importance of wiring the tree in
to get that stability in there, and obviously for the tree's well being and health
Right, we're now going to water, and the key point with this is
to gently submerge it, not totally going under water, just so that we can see the water seeping through.
Then we know that the whole root system and the all the soil that we've put in there is satisfactorily watered, OK.
So it's just a gentle process
lower that in, just be patient and just waiting,
and it's a good way for cleaning your hands after the dirty work.
Just lowering in,
just come to the lip, can't see my left hand so I'm focused on my right at the moment.
And just wait for the water to seep through, getting rid of all those air bubbles
gently,
softly
There we go