When the deciduous trees turn color.. most plants are dormant and that is the key. Try to avoid stressing the leaves on it. Early spring late fall or even winter except the ground would be a lot more difficult to work with.
First make sure you wear thick clothing (jeans) including very heavy leather or welding gloves. This bush has prickly spines and you do not want them to stick you. Wrap bush with landscape fabric, or some type of thick material. Then tie it up with twine or rope before you start digging bush out. With the bush wrapped up and tied, you have less danger of injury from a barberry spine.
Next, Dig around your barberry just outside the shape of canopy by pushing a shovel blade into the ground at a right-angle to the barberry and removing a shovelful of dirt. Work around the entire circumference of the plant. Place dirt removed in one pile nearby so you can use it to fill hole from bush back up after removal.
Push the shovel blade into the ground at an angle, with the tip of the blade plunging underneath and toward the center off shrub’s rootball.
Press down on the shovel handle to test for looseness of the rootball. Do not try to pry the plant out at this point as it can break your shovel.
Repeat shovel angle blande plunging under the rootball all around the bush.!!If roots are tearing out of the ground, you are almost done. If they are not, more digging is necessary to get under the rootball.
Cut large roots that don't want to turn loose with garden loppers or an ax. Be careful to not cut roots unless necessary.
Continue to work under the shrub with your shovel All around root ball to loosen the bush until it is completely free.
Handle the roots, which do not have spines, to remove the bush from its hole.
Items You Will Need
. Heavy Gloves Leather or welding type
Garden shovel
Garden loppers (optional)
Axe (optional)
Landscape fabric (optional)
Rope
Fall is best time to remove and replant. Happy Digging.
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Hello mgm 33r76122
When the deciduous trees turn color.. most plants are dormant and that is the key. Try to avoid stressing the leaves on it. Early spring late fall or even winter except the ground would be a lot more difficult to work with.
Best if luck to you
First make sure you wear thick clothing (jeans) including very heavy leather or welding gloves. This bush has prickly spines and you do not want them to stick you. Wrap bush with landscape fabric, or some type of thick material. Then tie it up with twine or rope before you start digging bush out. With the bush wrapped up and tied, you have less danger of injury from a barberry spine.
Next, Dig around your barberry just outside the shape of canopy by pushing a shovel blade into the ground at a right-angle to the barberry and removing a shovelful of dirt. Work around the entire circumference of the plant. Place dirt removed in one pile nearby so you can use it to fill hole from bush back up after removal.
Push the shovel blade into the ground at an angle, with the tip of the blade plunging underneath and toward the center off shrub’s rootball.
Press down on the shovel handle to test for looseness of the rootball. Do not try to pry the plant out at this point as it can break your shovel.
Repeat shovel angle blande plunging under the rootball all around the bush.!!If roots are tearing out of the ground, you are almost done. If they are not, more digging is necessary to get under the rootball.
Cut large roots that don't want to turn loose with garden loppers or an ax. Be careful to not cut roots unless necessary.
Continue to work under the shrub with your shovel All around root ball to loosen the bush until it is completely free.
Handle the roots, which do not have spines, to remove the bush from its hole.
Items You Will Need
. Heavy Gloves Leather or welding type
Fall is best time to remove and replant. Happy Digging.