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Georgie
Citizen
Username: Georgie
Post Number: 107
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 12:31 pm: | 
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We hopefully doing a local move in six weeks. About a month ago I planted a few perennials that I would like to keep.
My question is should I keep the plants in the ground until I move and then repot and transplant? Or should I repot them now?
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Sherri De Rose
Citizen
Username: Honeydo
Post Number: 246
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 2:45 pm: |
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I would say that as long as you keep them properly watered, keep them in the ground as long as possible. When you put them in pots, make sure they are watered frequently. (However, not overwatered). Same thing when you transplant them about the watering. Georgie, are they that special that you would not just leave them?
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Georgie
Citizen
Username: Georgie
Post Number: 108
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 2:54 pm: |
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They are not special plants...but I grew them from seeds so I have an emotional attachment 
Of course if it ends up being a total PITA I will leave them for the new owner to enjoy. |
KRNL
Citizen
Username: Krnl
Post Number: 65
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 6:00 pm: |
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It is a toss-up. It certainly would be better to keep them in the ground as long as possible, but you may be so busy just before you move that potting them later would be a PITA. Also, it will likely be hotter then and you would need to put them back in the ground as soon as possible.
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Elizabeth
Citizen
Username: Momof4peepers
Post Number: 80
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 2:36 pm: |
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Could you dig them up now, plant them in plastic pots, then replant the pots? That way all you have to do is lift them when you're ready and they'd stay in the cool ground for as long as possible. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11648
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 3:07 pm: |
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I believe plantings are part of the house and are transfered with the property. Unless the buyers have given you permission you may have an interesting closing. |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 532
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 3:12 pm: |
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First of all Georgie, good luck with the move!!
Now, I know you said that the little flowers are ones that you planted from seeds, but there is a chance that they will not "take" for some reason or other in your new place. Would you not prefer to leave them and think of them as a part of you staying there to beautify the garden, and then make your mark in your new home with some other seeds?
Again, good luck with the move
SOP |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 1907
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 5:14 pm: |
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Georgie,
When we moved (7 years ago) I dug up a few plants that I felt sentimental about - a nice white bleeding heart that my mother gave me from my childhood home and some clumps of daisies that I'd planted from seed when my middle-schooler was a baby.
I was so distracted with the move that I didn't get them into the ground for at least a month in the new place. They wavered and withered, and some bits died off, but they made it the first year.
Happy ending, 7 years later the bleeding heart is thriving, and the daisies are huge and double every year.
I also took a shoebox full of flat rocks and stones and integrated them into the rock wall around the garden. I like that there's always a touch of our past woven into our "new" place.
Good luck with your move! |
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