Miles: thanks!
R scott: those have been my thoughts on the situation. I just hate to see the other ones go down, theres just a romanticism to a tree that started from a seed that I love. Which is why I am reaching out in hopes of finding another commonly known/unknown permaculture technique for this sort of situation.
Robert: interesting question that I would also like to know the answer too, though im sure like all things it varies by species. Unfortunately I think I remember reading somewhere about black walnuts having deep taproots that would make digging them up and separating them difficult.
So at this point im thinking its going to be to chop and drop method seeing as how I don’t really need to worry about the jugulone in this area. BUT with a twist, the smaller trees (3’ish) are the farthest from the largest tree…maybe I could dig them out and attempt to transplant them? They are at most a foot away from the 10’+ gentleman.
