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Drew Lawson[_2_] · 12-07-2013, 03:57 PM posted to rec.gardens

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writes:

I'm just amazed that any tree would send out that long a root and it not
be a foot or more deep - like right to the water table.

My back yard is 100 feet deep and 65 feet wide. Since it is sloped
toward the house, I'm working on a terrace right about in the center
of that. In doing that, I found a root running side to side, about
a foot deep and 1 inch thick.

I was initially concerned I had dug up a power cable, it was that
straight and even.

The most likely source is a Norway Spruce that is about 20 feet on
the other side of the fence.

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