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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Mulderrig on September 24, 2021, 09:06

Title: Moving Trees
Post by: Mulderrig on September 24, 2021, 09:06

I have managed to get a second plot adjacent to my own one. I am going to use it for fruit and to start it off I was planning on moving some trees that I had planted last year, 2 plum and 2 cherry, plus some gooseberry bushes from my first plot. Is there a preferred time to do this? Or a time I should avoid? Thanks.

Title: Re: Moving Trees
Post by: Goosegirl on September 24, 2021, 15:21

I'd say it was the ideal time now as the soil is still "warm" and the trees will be readying for winter so their growth will be slowed down.

Title: Re: Moving Trees
Post by: Mulderrig on September 25, 2021, 09:07

Thanks, that's my job for the weekend sorted.

Title: Re: Moving Trees
Post by: Yorkie on September 25, 2021, 11:16

Move as much rootball as you can, and dig / prepare the new hole before digging up the tree to move it.