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Having accepted an offer for my house and negotiating a new place which a larger back garden so i can have my fruit and veg in the back garden i am now having a panic about what i can move given the time of year and that the back garden has couch grass which i dont want to take with me.

Plants i want to move from back garden inc

Apple Trees, honey bush, tree peonys, rhododendrum, azalia, magnolias, hibuscus.

Plants to move from allotment inc

Rhubarb, apple tree, Gooseberrys, Red Currants, Black Currants, Boysenberry, Asparagus, strawberrys, sorrel.

Any advice welcome as its also unlikly these plants will be out of pots this side of christmas.

Cam

If you are going to move anything it is best to do it when the plant is dormant.

No reason why they should not be OK in pots providing they are big enough.
  :)

As Betula said most will be dormant soon and should be ok in pots.

However, I would dig up the rhubarb now and leave it on the ground to over winter.  In the spring dig a pit and add plenty of manure and put the rhubarb in.

For the current bushes prune and put cuttings into pots with soil and sand and leave for 12 months.  Just in case the plants don't move well.  You could do this with most of the others as well.

Good luck with the move.

Bill

thanks guys i was thinking about raiding lidls to get some additional bushes just in case they did not move well :) Having checked i am not sure my blackcurrant and blackberry are going to be untangable from the fence i have them against easly and might be a good idea to leave be. After all i am passing my allotment to a friend so i can always come back next year and take cuttings of some of the plants i am leaving him.

Wow i did not know i could just leave the root exposed will get that sorted next week when i get get back onto the plot. I am bagging up my leaf mould to take with me i know its a weird thing to do but its almost ready to use and seams a but of a shame i though it would be a great way to add something good to the soil i am moving to.

Also bagging up my darlek which is full of well rotten manure to take with me and the darlek once hosed out for composting. There all going in the last van load so the rest of the stuff we have to move does not stink :)

I know i need to be a little better with my space management and grow in a different way then i did at the allotment where i could throw stuff in and leave them for 6 months so the other thing i need to do in the next 2 weeks is cut all the wood to size to make 2 large potato planters as i will not have the space to grow spuds in the ground as i do now. But rather than leave the few bits of extra wood i have i am going to cut them all to size and bundle them so that they can be transported and left in the back of the garage which is a job for me to be doing over the winter.

After winter i need to get the brick base to the greenhouse & the greenhouse fitted and the brick raised beds built. I am pushing to get these done in Febuary which means that I can get my soft fruits in the ground and the apples replanted in good time. I noticed lidl had got some tarps for sale as well and was going to pick up 2 to cover the ground which are know waist high in weeds.

You'll easily be able to see the roots of couch grass in amongst your dug-up plants, and pull it out.

Rot it down in a bucket of water, and - free plant food (or compost activator)