Coniferous trees can grow to large sizes. If it robs the other plants in your garden of light or gets too close to nearby buildings, you should consider removing the tree. If you still don't want to completely separate yourself from your pine tree, you can also change location. Young conifers are comparatively easy to transplant, but the older your pine tree is, the more difficult the project becomes. If you follow the instructions on this page, you will still have success transplanting your pine tree.
How can I successfully transplant a pine tree?
To transplant a pine tree, dig a trench around the tree a year in advance and fill it with compost (€12.00 on Amazon) and soil. In late summer of the following year, dig up the root ball, dig a new hole and plant the tree there. Ensure adequate watering after transplanting.
The preparation
Transplanting a pine tree should not be a spontaneous decision, especially because the implementation requires a certain amount of preparation:
- A year earlier in August, dig a 50 cm deep trench around the pine tree. Maintain a distance of about 30 cm from the tree trunk
- Depending on your age and size, you must expand this information
- Now pour mature compost and loose soil into the trench. This way you loosen the roots. Your pine tree will form an easier-to-remove root ball until next year
Transplanting instructions
The final transplanting of the pine tree is done as follows:
- choose a day in late summer (August or September)
- You can protect small branches from breaking by tying them together with a rope
- lay out the trench
- Cut any existing roots with a sod turn
- also pay attention to the taproots
- now use a digging fork to remove the exposed root ball
- lift the jaws from the earth
- dig a hole that is twice the diameter of the root ball
- make sure the soil is loose in this one
- fill the hole with compost (€12.00 on Amazon) and horn shavings
- then fill it with water and let it seep away completely
- put the pine trees in the ground
- fill the hole with soil and tamp it down well
- water properly
- cover the tree disc with a layer of mulch
Measures to help the pine trees get used to the new location
Increased watering is very important in the first few weeks after transplanting the pine tree. If the needles turn brown or yellow, the roots are unable to supply the above-ground parts of the tree. If necessary, pruning can help.
