How to Plant Flowers by Transplanting

Transplant refers to taking a pre-mature planting and replanting it in your garden.

When purchasing plants for transplanting, look for the following characteristics:

• General "healthy looking" plants
• White and "fleshy" roots (as opposed to brown roots) that the container fill
• Dark green leaves
• Plants without full of flowers (they will be much better a few weeks after planting seems)

When transplanting flowers ...

• Do as early as possible in the spring after all danger of frost passes
• Harden off your flowers - Flowers bought for transplanting tar nurtured in a greenhouse because they were seeds, and they need to gradually be introduced to the harder outside environment before going into the ground. This process is known as "hardening off plants."

Hard on your flowers:

• Day 1 - Let them out for 4 hours in the sun levels guidelines each plant (ie the sun, partial shade, full shade) match
• Day 2 - Let them out for 6 hours
• Day 3 - Leave them outside for 8 hours
• Day 4 - Transplant in your garden or flower bed

1. The day before transplant, watering the plants with about an inch (2.5 cm) of water
2. Just before you are ready to plant, remove the soil from the container some with roots and soil structure left intact. If there are several flowers growing in the tray, cut the ground between the plants for removing each plant.
3. If the roots tightly around the ground some make several shallow cuts around encouraging the forest to the roots to grow out into the soil
4. Lightly wet the hole before transplanting to the point that it consistently moist (about the texture of a wrung-out sponge)
5. Plant at a depth corresponding to the depth of the plant when it was in the container (same goes for planting peat pots ... puts the whole peat pot in the ground so that the ground level of the peat pot matches the ground Garden's)
6. After placing the wood in the soil, packing the surrounding soil around the bush then fertilize with a liquid organic fertilizer.
7. Until established (at least a few weeks), keep the plants well watered to the point that the surrounding soil remains consistently moist.