This is not photoshopped (lawn, growing, grass, tree)
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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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We see that exact same picture, but without the lawn every time we go for a hike in the woods. In a wet climate like ours, the roots do not go deep, they stay close to the surface, and a strong wind pushes them over.
yes looks like sod to me. I've seen them cut if from sod farms and a big machine cuts it in strips to be sent to each job or retailers. But wondering if a healthy lawn might come up the same way. Somehow I doubt it.
It looks almost as if there was an impenetrable surface over which perhaps a foot of topsoil was placed, then sod. Clearly the sod is not recent because the strips have 'stitched' together. Was the tree planted on top of this impenetrable surface as well? Difficult to say, but maybe not. Anyhow, this situation could only occur if the grass and tree were getting plenty of water and artificial fertilizer.
The big tree in the later post may have also been growing over a very hard substrate, maybe a couple of feet down. In the west there is this caliche layer which sometimes cannot be penetrated even by tree roots.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Sod pulled up in that size is grown with a plastic mesh netting on the ground to hold it together, so when the roots penetrate it, the whole thing can be rolled up like carpet.
I can totally believe that. We had a lot of rain here last week. I was out walking the puppies in our new lawn, which is St. Augustine sod planted last October. I could actually feel that the sod was floating on the accumulated standing water...it was like walking on a waterbed.
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