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Moving an established loquat tree

TheGardenerFromMarsTheGardenerFromMars Posts: 65
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Not connected to my other post about loquat trees!

I'm helping someone to move an established loquat tree out of a patio border which is about 1m high and wide (the border not the tree). It's a sort of raised bed connected to the end of a raised patio area. The owner doesn't know if the bed has a solid bottom or if the roots have been able to grow into soil beneath the bed. Either way, imminent building work means that the tree has to be transplanted now. The owner is aware that it might kill the tree but wants to try to transplant it. Leaving the tree where it is or moving it at a different time aren't options.

The tree is about 2m X 2m.


Any advice on how to transplant it to reduce the chances of it dying? It's going to be moved to another part of the garden.

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Get the planting hole dug ready and dig out as much of the roots - ideally keeping the surrounding soil in tact! - and drag it over to the planting hole on a plastic sheet or tarpaulin. Plant it so the stem is in the ground at the same level as it was originally and firm in well. Then create a temporary ring of mounded earth around it so you can create a pond of water over the rootball when you water. 

    Water it in copiously then keep watering it copiously every day until cooler autumn weather arrives. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • TheGardenerFromMarsTheGardenerFromMars Posts: 65
    Loxley said:
    Get the planting hole dug ready and dig out as much of the roots - ideally keeping the surrounding soil in tact! - and drag it over to the planting hole on a plastic sheet or tarpaulin. Plant it so the stem is in the ground at the same level as it was originally and firm in well. Then create a temporary ring of mounded earth around it so you can create a pond of water over the rootball when you water. 

    Water it in copiously then keep watering it copiously every day until cooler autumn weather arrives. 
    Thank you!
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