Fruit Tree and Pruning Record
Keep the details that vanish with the label — variety, rootstock and planting year — and build a pruning and cropping history alongside them.
GG-05 2 pages
Garden and growing · GG-14
Tree Planting and Establishment Record
A tree planting record — each tree's species, source, size and position recorded once, then a log of watering, weeding, stake and guard checks.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Keep a new tree alive through its first summers by making the watering and checks visible, and know afterwards which trees from which nursery actually took.
Who it is for
Anyone planting trees in a garden, orchard, field corner or hedge — from a single specimen to a bare-root batch.
How to use it
- Number each tree or batch and record it once: species, where it came from, size and form, date and position.
- Note what was fitted at planting — stake, tie, guard, mulch.
- Log each visit: how much water, whether it was weeded or mulched, the state of the stake and guard, and how the tree looked.
- Record the action taken, including when the stake and guard came off.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: Each tree planted, identified once — species, source, size, position, stake and guard — then the years of watering, weeding and checking that decide whether it lives.
The nursery's advice, your record. How much water a new tree wants and for how long depends on the species, the size it went in at, your soil and your summers. The nursery that sold it is the right source for that figure; this sheet records what you actually did against how the tree looked, so you can see what worked.
Write-on lines: Site · Planting season · Trees planted
Trees planted — one row per tree or per batch of the same tree
Table, 12 rows: No. · Species / variety · From · Size & form · Planted · Where · Stake / guard / mulch
Page 2
Establishment checks — keep going until the tree no longer needs you
Table, 21 rows: Date · No. · Watered · Weeded / mulched · Stake & tie · Guard · Condition · Action taken
Questions
Why is there no watering amount or schedule printed?
Because it depends on the species, the size it was planted at, your soil and the summer you get. The nursery that supplied the tree is the right place for that figure; the sheet records what you gave it against how it responded.
Is this for fruit trees too?
It is, for the planting and establishing years. Once a fruit tree is settled and being pruned and cropped, its record continues on the Fruit Tree and Pruning Record.
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