TOPIC: Appearance of a transplanted rootet

I have not had the grey clay analized, by itself. It's agood idea to do that. I'll get some out to the NC Dept Of Ag as soon as the ground thaws.

If I were to transplant very many roots I would work up some raised ridges working the soil up as good as possible. I would place the roots as straight up as i could and a little deeper than normal and while I was working the dirt in and around the root I would pull the root up a little at a time to normal depth. I would then water and finish covering with about 2 inches of dirt and pack it a little. Cover with leaves and in about 10 years they will be as wild looking as any.

One of my friends suggested that using a flower bulb tool would/should work well. This friend suggested that instead of digging a root, and exposing the fingers of the root, that using the flower bulb tool would remove the entire root, dirt and all, and then one could place the entire \"plug\" in it's new location, and go on.

The flower bulb tool I have is approx. 5\" deep x 3\" wide. There's a handle on top, and the tool itself is round. I bet you guys have seen one. So, insert tool carefully around the root, twist and remove the whole thing. I'm thinking that I can remove many of these, place into a 5 gal bucket and then go to the bed that is sparse, and transplant into it.

Maybe use a couple of them, one for the digging of the root, and another for digging of the empty hole to transplant into.

You guys think this will work?

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool yiou have describe

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool you have described. Almost every hole that I dig when harvesting wild ginseng is at least twice the dimensions you have described. Ive been nearly 2 feet deep at times and almost every hole I dig is a foot in diameter or more. Those wild ginseng roots almost always lie off to one side or the other from where the stem comes up out of the ground. But... if you could get them dug without damaging them like that I believe that they would keep their wild character if planted as described. Perhaps just a bigger tool.... The best I have found is packing them tight on a 45 degree trench like Brad describes in his post...

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool yiou have describe

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool yiou have describe

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool yiou have describe

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool yiou have describe

I think you would end up damaging a lot of roots trying to dig them with the tool yiou have describe