Seattle Department of Transportation crews are out planting free street trees in Whittier Heights.

Last month we wrote that the city would be planting hundreds of trees in 2011. In Ballard those trees are going in from 9th Ave NW to 14th Ave NW and NW 65th St to NW 85th St on blocks with planting strips at least five feet wide. Crews tell us this project will take them a couple of weeks.