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Preparing your hole size in the depth of the hole is very, very important. I can't stress
it enough. If you have your plant and you set it in the hole, you need to kind of get
down. You want it to be at ground level. Clearly, this plant is sitting down in the hole way
too deeply. If you go and you plant it too deep, you risk choking the plant. Suffocating
the roots in the other words. In order to get it to the right height, you kind of have
to eyeball it. I've made this hole a little bit deeper, which I wanted it to be, but we
need to add soil mix to it so that it's at the right level. I'm going to take a little
of my mix. I'm going to lift my plant out that I've had soaking, I'm going to put a
little mix in at the bottom of my hole along with some of gypsum to line to hole to help
with the draining of the clay soil. Now, I'm going to set the plant back in and I'm going
to try to move it around and see if it looks like it's at the right level. That's a lot
better than where it was. You can always add a little bit more to make sure. I'm going
to put a little bit more, because if anything you want to plant it a little high rather
than too deeply. That looks pretty good.