Ground growing

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Thanks for the reply @wrcmad

I ended up (so far) planting 7 trees in 2 pond baskets and 5 larger-than-I'd-have-liked grow bags(350mm diameter was all I had access to).

The singular elm went in to a pod basket with which I drilled a heap of larger holes around the surface diameter, being that the holes throughout were very small, hoping that it'd encourage root growth closer to the surface and radially; I suspect that might not be the case and they roots will grow as normal and just 'escape' at that point after they dart around as they please.

Anyway, I'll be monitoring them as I suspect the grow-bags will fall to pieces within 2-3 years (hopefully closer to 3 and not sooner), and the Elm can be re-planted without the pond basket when I first do root work, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks again for the reply - I'll jump out of the way of this thread so it can get back on track.