Firstly, break up the soil surface with a garden fork and remove as many of the smaller fibrous roots as you can ...

A: Trees have 90% of their roots in the top foot of soil. You’ll see that the next time you see some poor tree that has been pushed over by a bulldozer. As the tree grows larger, so do its limbs ...

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