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How to Transplant Evergreens
How to Transplant Evergreens. Evergreens are a welcome addition to the landscape. They provide year-round color and interest, particularly during the winter months when deciduous trees are bare. They also provide cool shade for the yard or house. It's easy to transplant an evergreen. Like planting any other tree, preparation of the planting site is...
Evergreens are a welcome addition to the landscape. They provide year-round color and interest, particularly during the winter months when deciduous trees are bare. They also provide cool shade for the yard or house. It's easy to transplant an evergreen. Like planting any other tree, preparation of the planting site is of paramount importance because the tree will be living there for many years.
Things You'll Need
Garden shovel
Peat moss
Fertilizer for acid loving plants
Garden claw
Organic mulch
Prepare the planting site. Remove weeds in a 4- to 6-foot area around the planting site. Dig a hole twice as large as the root ball of your transplant. Mix the soil you removed with a 5-gallon bucket of peat moss. Set aside. Add fertilizer specially formulated for acid loving plants such as evergreens, azaleas and blueberries to the bottom of the hole. Use your garden claw to scratch it into the soil there.
Remove your evergreen from its nursery pot or if the roots are wrapped in burlap, remove burlap from root ball. Carefully place into the planting hole. Add soil under the root ball to adjust the level of the plant so it is planted at the same level as it was previously growing.
Fill the planting hole half way up with the soil you set aside in Step 1. Firm it down with your foot, but don't overly compress it.
Fill the half-filled hole up with water and allow it to drain. Repeat.
Finish filling up the hole and firm the surface of the soil with your foot without compressing it. Form a ridge of soil with your hands around the perimeter of the planting hole to catch and hold water.
Fill up with water the depression formed by the planting hole and bordered by the ridge. Allow water to drain and repeat.
Apply a mulch of pine needles, wood chips or shredded bark 3 to 4 inches deep to the area around the tree and out to the farthest reaches of its branches.
Water every two to three days until active growth begins. After that, provide with an inch of water per week for the first year after transplanting.
Tips & Warnings
Apply slow-release granular fertilizer beneath the tree's drip line in early spring.
