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When is the best time to move the fig tree, from the back garden down to the allotment, ill be honest its not a task im looking forward too!!! any takers for helping??
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If you can get an old washing machine drum place it inside that and bury, helps contain the roots and size of the tree, bit too far away to help, sorryNever test the depth of the water with both feet
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why do you need to move it?Comment
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Most plants are best moved during the winter, while they have no leaves.
Moving a plant while it has leaves on it has a high risk of killing it because lots of microscopic roots are left behind and it can no longer supply water to the leaves, so the whole plant collapses and may die.
Move the fig as soon as possible because it will start growing leaves in several weeks time.
Figs on an allotment sounds like a bad idea unless you take great care to restrict the spread of the roots. It will also crop better if the soil in which it is planted is poor - some people mix in stones, rubble and all kinds of debris into a slab-lined pit (also the washing machine drum would work well too). Perhaps good chance to get rid of all the stones off your allotment?
The good soil of an allotment and your plentiful rainfall will otherwise encourage the fig's aggressive roots to go all over the place and it will just keep growing and not fruiting.
Figs are designed to thrive in crevices in rocks, or otherwise inhospitable soil in a hot, dry climate, where the poor conditions mean that most other plants can't grow. Gojiberries are similar.
Given the chance, a 5ft tall fig in open ground may have roots which reach 10ft in all directions..Comment
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