Transplanting In Your Garden

Do you have a plant in your front yard that you would prefer to be planted in the backyard? Are you interested in planting a removed and discarded plant from a friend’s or neighbor’s yard into your own garden? This process is called transplanting! 

And here’s how you do it:

1. If possible, try to do your transplanting in the fall, when the weather has cooled down a bit. While you are still able to transplant in the summer, hot weather can potentially damage exposed roots during the transplanting process.

2. Do not transplant a blooming plant! Wait a few weeks after the blooms have faded to transplant.

3. Dampen the soil of the plant before it is removed from its original location

4. Re-plant in a hole that is a little bit bigger than the root ball of the plant 

1. Water deeply immediately after planting in the new location