Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Transplanting crape myrtles, 1 by kanani

kanani wrote:
Here is a photo of the crepe myrtle\'s tap root. There is at least a foot of the tap root showing, and it\'s still about 1 1/2\" thick where it\'s going into the ground at the bottom of the 18\" deep hole.

I really need some advice here! Can I just wrap a chain around it and pull it out with a truck? Will it survive? Can the tap root be cut? Help! lol

I have two others that are slightly smaller than this one to dig out. I hope they don\'t all have tap roots like this one!