Moving is highly stressful for individuals. There is so much to do and so much to pack. There are cartons to be filled properly and marked properly. Different items have to be labelled correctly. The movers have to be called in. The new house needs to be cleaned. The old house needs to be refurbished. There is too much to do. Often, many people tend to forget an important part of their house, especially if someone else takes care of it. The garden! Every home, especially if it is a house will have its garden space. In fact, you can keep garden even in the apartment. There is absolutely no way of saying that you cannot do it. Therefore, often your plants are ignored, and your gardening equipment may also be ignored as you move. However, you may have a new gardening space in your new house, so what will you do about that?
It is a pain for many people to actually leave their gardens behind because they have made so many attempts to actually make the gardens for what they are. Therefore, you need to see if there are some parts of gardens that can be moved into your new house as your garden is part of your home. Therefore, this particular article will give you some tips on how to move your garden.
It is essential that you take the season into account when you are moving houses. It has been recognised that winter is the best time that plants can be moved. This is because plants are growing slowly or they are quite dormant at that time. Therefore, plants can be dug with minimum damage and can be transported to a new garden easily. In addition, because of the cooler temperatures of winter, the plants also come under less stress while you move. If you look at it emotionally and physically, it is quite easier to leave a garden when it is sleeping like it does in the winter.
Then another aspect that you have to consider is that not all the plants can be moved. Some will simply die when you are moving them. If you are moving instates especially, you have to think twice before you take your plants with you. Some states forbid plant imports without proper certificates. Furthermore, the change in the climate will also mean that your plants will become useless if they cannot survive in the new state that you are moving.
Furthermore, plants that are very sturdy and are old are quite hard to move without any kind of assistance. Their size will make them particularly difficult to handle. You would need two people to handle such a plant safely. Therefore, you may have to hire digging services, and proper moving services to transport your plant safely. You need to be careful during the digging process because you will permanently damage the plant if you do not do it correctly.
It is also essential that when the day of the move arrives, you should dig down and under the plant and you should slip a large sheet of plastic under the root of the plant. This will help in keeping the root system together and will also help in moving the plant. You should also spray the plant with some anti-transpirant product so that there is minimum water loss from foliage. You should also ensure that plants are kept in a shaded spot. Once you have moved, you have to make sure that you should water the plant
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