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Field rows
A tree farm is rows before it is anything else: young stock set out in straight lines with mown alleys between, so every tree gets the same sun and the same Kansas wind while it grows on.
Plant nursery and tree farm · Pratt, Kansas
Pratt Tree Farm, trees grown in the field on SE 25th Avenue
A plant nursery and tree farm just outside Pratt. Call before you drive out and ask what is ready in the rows this season.
Rows, stakes and root balls, a few miles from town.
- What it is
- Plant nursery and tree farm
- Where
- 10161 SE 25th Ave, Pratt, KS
- Phone
- (620) 672-7134
- Hours
- Not posted. Call ahead.
Walk the rows
From the field row to the root ball
How a tree farm grows stock, from a young row in open ground to a tree that is ready to leave. Scroll through it the way you would walk it.
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Dug and wrapped
Field-grown trees leave the ground with their roots held in burlap and a wire basket. It keeps the soil around the roots intact from the row to your yard, and it is why a tree like this is heavier than it looks.
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Grown in containers
Smaller stock often grows in black nursery pots on gravel with a drip line running past. Container plants are lighter to carry home and can go in the ground across a longer stretch of the year.
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The lane out
Out on SE 25th Avenue the farm is a working field, not a storefront. Call (620) 672-7134 first, ask what is ready, and you will know before you make the drive from town.
What grows at a tree farm
Trees first, and the plants that go around them
Stock in a nursery changes with the season, so nothing here is a price list. Use it as a starting point for the call.
Shade and ornamental trees
Straight young trunks on stakes, grown on in the row until they are ready to go into a yard. Ask the farm which ones are ready this season and how big they run.
Availability details
EvergreensConifers are what plains yards lean on for year-round green, screening and shelter from the wind. Call to ask what is growing in the rows right now.Ask the farm
Shrubs and container plantsSmaller plants in nursery pots fill the gaps between trees and along a foundation. What is on the bench changes through the year, so a quick call is the way to find out.Call ahead
The farm gate
10161 SE 25th Ave, out past the edge of Pratt
Pratt Tree Farm sits on a county road southeast of town. Hours are not posted, and on a working farm the people you want to talk to are often out in the rows. Ring (620) 672-7134 before you set off and you will know what is ready and whether someone is there.
From a visitor
“Nice and welcoming”
Before you plant
What people ask a tree farm
Timing, root balls and watering come up on almost every call. Longer answers live in the planting notes.
The farm is at 10161 SE 25th Ave, Pratt, KS 67124, out in the country southeast of town. It is a working field, not a storefront, so call (620) 672-7134 before you drive out.
Call first. Hours are not posted online, and a tree farm is often out in the rows rather than standing at a counter. A quick call to (620) 672-7134 saves you the drive if nobody is on site.
Early spring and early fall are the easiest windows. Soil is workable, the heat has not arrived or has broken, and roots can settle in before summer wind and July heat test them. Summer planting works too, but the tree needs far more watering to get through its first season.
A balled and burlapped tree is dug from the field with its root ball wrapped in burlap, often inside a wire basket, so it arrives larger and heavier. A container tree was grown in a pot, is lighter to move, and can go in the ground over a longer season. Both do well when they are planted at the right depth and watered deeply.
Water slowly and deeply at the root ball rather than a quick daily sprinkle. In the first summer that usually means a long soak once or twice a week, more often in hot, windy stretches. Push a finger or a screwdriver into the soil: if it is dry a few inches down, water.
Planting this season? Ask what is ready in the rows.
Tell Pratt Tree Farm what you are hoping to plant, how much sun the spot gets and whether you can haul a heavy root ball. One call covers it.