Moving your plants
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March 5, 2011 — Growers rejoice: the soil will soon unfreeze! Mike McGrath discusses which plants can be moved around easily in the spring and why winter moves are a bad idea. Plus your fabulous phone calls!
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We are moving at the end of August. But the grape tomatoes are looking REALLY good, the eggplant is flowering, and I’m missing my veggie garden already. Can I dig the plants up and transplant them to our new house? There is also a small pussy willow bush with sentimental value; the original I rooted it from was at the house where my husband grew up. Can I transplant it? It isn’t very big, really (the size of a rose bush) – and I might have tried moving it anyway if we were staying. Get the answer »
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