Should I transplant plants now or wait until spring?
Online sources give mixed information about whether fall or spring is the best time to uproot and transplant. This conflicting advice makes it difficult to decide when it is safe to move plants from pots to the ground or rearrange a garden's layout.
What people tried
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- 1waiting until spring to move the plantsDid this help you?
- 2leaving them until the last frost in springDid this help you?
In their words
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“Not really digging the symmetrical look and thinking of uprooting and moving some of them around.. should this be done now or wait until spring?”source ↗
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