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  • From: Doug Green <dgreen@kingston.net>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] moving miscanthus
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:53:01 -0400

At 12:55 PM 6/10/04, you wrote:
A few days ago I spent a good couple of hours trenching around a mature Miscanthis sinensus zebrinus in order to divide and move it. After ruining a perfectly good shovel I now have alot of dirt piled up around the blasted thing, which is leaning a bit, but I cannot leverage it out. It bent my shovel beyond repair. I even tied a rope to it & tried to pull it out with the car but it slipped right off. (ok, you can stop laughing now...)

There is a very useful technique with large rootballs like this after you've trenched and slightly undercut around it- don't try to pull it out with the car - put the rope (actually a chain is preferred) *under* the rootball and use the car or truck or tractor to undercut the rootmass. Then you can break your back as well as your shovel lifting the entire clump in one big bit. Really big rootballs like this can be worth a few hundred bucks at garden centers or landscapers.

Doug
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