When planting trees on a lawn, it's not always easy to maintain a neat area of bare soil around the tree base. Bare soil around the base is essential when it comes to feeding the tree (by top-dressing with an appropriate compost ), especially in its early years. The solution to this that I've adopted is Everedge Tree Rings , which have proven easy to use and perfect for the job. To illustrate: here's one of my immature trees before a tree ring was fitted. The process of fitting the tree ring is wonderfully simple: initially you put the tree ring around the tree upside-down so that you can use it as a template to guide your edging spade as you cut a neat circle. Then yout flip the ring over and drive it in to the ground using a mallet (and I use a piece of timber as well to distribute the load across the ring). The result is very neat, as you can see. This is how two of them look a couple of years on. Top-dressing the trees with compost is easy and keeping t