Vonsgardens

Vance,
Finally got back to this thread. We have a small mountain of "root mat" circles used to fill in low spots and holes in the property. All of the San Joses and other Junipers that come in rootbound as "overgrowns" from the liner grower, all of the pines and Junipers that come in from wholesale nursery's. I originally tried sawing half wqy through the container and then cutting the other half off the following spring, lost 1 or 2 per hundred. Switched a couple of years ago to doing it all at once- lost 1 or 2 per hundred. Realize that we also do the massive foliage and wood reduction to the initial "line" at the same time. Now. not sure I would try it on certain "touchy" species, (Beech, Stewartia, etc) but here- March/April cutdowns work great. John