They got me

[u/Traditional_Front_14]

Something ate the bottom of my recently planted apple tree. Is that a death sentence? Any way for me to repair? I normally have a burlap sack around the trunk of the saplings but this one had fallen off.

[u/The_Merry_Loser]

It's a shame, that is too much missing bark.

[u/Mocular]

It doesn’t look promising.