alleycat

Well here's the situation. I happen to be lucky enough to be moving within a month to 2 months.

My problem is at my current house, I have a garden with Raspberries that are just geting to be great sized plants.

I also have a whole strawberry patch going, and some asparagus like into it's 4th year now.

I also have a garlic patch going here.

Also a columbine and some rose bushes I wouldn't mind taking too.

I want to know if anyone has suggestions for digging them out of the ground, and when to do it??

I'm thinking it's already cold enough, that if I just dig them out, and leave them in the cold till spring when I figure out where I'm gonna plant them, but never done that, so looking for help.

Probably dig as big around them as I can, and then remove most all the dirt I can from around them for winter storage???

If they make it, next spring will be a whole other thing with planting them, but want to make sure they at least go with this cat.

Happy Moving

Alleycat

SBNV

i ve seen garlic grow covered by sand 90 feet from shore, on really bad soil..... with not much watering during summer, extreme heat......and some got to the next season......going through some below freezing nights but not much at most 28 F........

have a good day alleycat

surfbum

turn em all into container plants...haha. personally i usually to all my transplanting close to the evenin so that the plants rest overnight and get a good stress free start to the next day of recovery. ive had pretty good luck with not removing dirt from the rootballs while their out. some people do that when puttin them into new soil. less disturbance = faster recovery. (why do i get the feeling you already know this? )

the garlics you could probably dig around to miss the roots enough and place them in pots. you could get something like a larger windowbox planter and put em in there for a bit. my girls mom grows carrots onions garlics and the such in the smaller self-watering containers. the ones she uses are like 8-10"w X 18"l X 8-10"deep. you could let em get situated in there and grow for a bit till you find a place and get setup at the new spot.

as far as raspberries, i dunno bout that. the ones shes got in her backyard are standin like 3' tall supported on tomatoe cages. i would suppose as long as you took care to not tear the roots up and dont break the stems you could replant in a larger pot and semi bundle the vines up. i have no clue how their roots are(tap or fibrous) so i cant help.

but i did move a bunch of strawberries this summer. although it was warm when i did it. they responded fairly well. they were the larger strawberrys and the roots were very fibrous spreadin down n out prolly a good 6-8" from the crown. my first thought, although maybe a bit off the wall, would be to get a shallow tupperware bin. the kind like everone uses for aero, but 8-10" deep, fill it with your soil from around your garden. then replant them in there a good three weeks before you move to give em time to harden back off. i put mine under a shade clothe for a few hours the first ew days to help em adjust. you might not need it where your at cause of temp. and again you could just grow em in there for a bit even once you move until you find a nice plot at the new spot.

oooor, if you have any runners you could take a couple of those and pot em up to take to the new spot.

hope this helped a bit. just ideas. this way you could grow em and move em around till you get situated. and itll make it easier to toss in the truck for the move. one trips gonna be just for the plants.

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[quote]Check this link out... moving your raspberries will not be a problem.
They are easy transplanters.

Garlic is planted in October ideally, but can go in as late as
November. I'd say you'll have to start your garlic crop next
fall, unless you can still turn the soil and you want to try
to get a late crop in this year. Kinda not in cards for you
this year unless it's really important to you and then you
could probably transplant your garlic into a well prepared
bed all in the same day.

This would be an ok time to transplant your roses.
Columbine I'm not sure about but I think it can be moved
in either the spring or the fall.

Are you talking about the raspberries? or everything?

Happy Moving

Hope this helps you out some and that your turkey day
was a good one!

Have a great weekend!

Peace- OD

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