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Gerry provided this
List of Items to bring Collecting:
(Consider each one; not every item may be appropriate depending on the length of your trip, the locale, or the weather)
1. Permit or permission from property owner
2. Personal Items:
- Plenty of drinking water and snacks
- Clothing: appropriate for weather, good hiking shoes, hat and heavy duty gloves
- Lip balm,
- Sunblock,
- Toilet paper,
- Insect repellent,
- First aid kit,
- Moistened towelettes,
- Wristwatch and
- Small hand towels.
3. Backpack for equipment and for carrying trees. Long distance or large trees.
4. Small day pack for holding tools - short distance or small trees.
5. Tools for collecting trees
- Pick or mattock,
- Shovel,
- Hand pruner,
- Two folding saws,
- Trowel,
- Loppers,
- Pocketknife or shears
- Crow bar
- Root hook
6. Packaging materials
- Plastic bags in several sizes
- Wrapping tape, twine or duct tape to secure bags to trees.
- Bungie cords to secure treees to backpack
- Pre-soaked (water with SuperThrive) sphagnum moss to cover roots
- Large tub and water container for soaking trees at site
- Two spray bottles: one to keep roots moist while digging, and one to spray foliage.
- SuperThrive, Cloud Cover or Anti Stress 2000
7. Flagging tape for marking trees
8. Supplies if planting on-site:
- Pots,
- Basic bonsai tools
- Fast draining soil (pumice, perlite, vermiculite) for planting tree prior to going home
- 20-gallon garbage bags
- 5-gallon buckets
- Screens for sifting soil
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