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- Helpful for digging cherry trees
- Carefully dig up the living cherry tree
- Removing a dead cherry tree
- Tips & Tricks
Helpful for digging cherry trees
If you want to transplant a living cherry tree to another location or remove an incoming tree from the garden, you have no easy task: dig up the tree roots.
To dig out a cherry tree - for whatever purpose - it is useful to know something about its root system. The tree root consists of a main and several secondary roots, which anchor the tree in the ground and ensure its stability. The roots of a tree that has long since died remain branched deep and wide in the earth for decades.
Carefully dig up the living cherry tree
Every gardener knows that transplanting trees is associated with stress. Nevertheless, various circumstances may require that a cherry tree be moved to the new place of residence or even to another garden place. If you proceed carefully when digging, the tree has good chances to grow in the new place.
When excavating, proceed as follows:
Removing a dead cherry tree
Many hobby gardeners report in countless garden forums about how difficult it is to remove a disturbing cherry tree root from the garden. These are usually very old trees that need to be made for replanting after death. Alone with the ditch, it is rarely done. In most cases, the use of technology (milling machine, winch, excavator) must be helped.
If the austenitic cherry tree root is not so powerful and does not go very deep, it can be exposed as much as possible and its branches can be sawn off, so that they can be pulled out - with or without technical assistance. The remaining in the soil root remains will rot over time, if necessary, here Schnellkomposter can speed things up.
Tips & Tricks
An old, deformed, gnarled tree trunk of a dead cherry tree can be very decorative with a creeper plant and also provide a habitat for many insects.