Conifers can grow to large sizes. If it's stealing the light from other plants in your garden or getting too close to nearby buildings, consider removing the tree. If you still don't want to part with your pine tree completely, you can also change your location. Young conifers can still be transplanted comparatively easily, 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 trees.
Small pines are great for transplanting
The preparation
Transplanting a pine should not be a spontaneous decision, mainly because transplanting requires a certain amount of preparation:
- already a year earlier, in August, dig a ditch 50 cm deep around the pine. Keep a distance of about 30 cm from the tree trunk
- depending on your age and size you have to expand this information
- now pour mature compost and loose soil into the ditch. This way you loosen the roots. Your jaw will form an easier-to-pick root ball into next year
Instructions for transplanting
The final transplanting of pine occurs as follows:
- choose a day in late summer (August or September)
- Protect small branches from breaking off by tying them with rope
- lay out the created ditch
- Cut through any existing roots with a spade
- also note the taproots
- Now use a digging fork to remove the exposed root ball
- lift the jaws out of the ground
- dig a hole twice the diameter of the root ball
- make sure there is a loose soil in it
- fill the hole with compost and horn shavings
- then you fill it with water, which you let seep away completely
- put the pines in the ground
- fill the hole with soil and tread firmly
- water properly
- cover the tree disc with a layer of mulch
Measures to get the pine used to the new location
Increased watering is very important in the first few weeks after transplanting the pine. If the needles turn brown or yellow, the roots are not able to supply the above-ground parts of the tree. If necessary, a pruning will help.