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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:40 PM Mar 2015

It is difficult to transplant.

If you can find small plants, you can transplant them and it might work. Larger plants will have a tap root that goes too far down to successfully dig and move. I have never tried it, but it probably would be best to start seeds in the house and move them outdoors once they are big enough and weather is warm enough. Of course, that would mean you have to wait a year.

Make sure that the area you plant them in has the same type of conditions as where they are growing now. If you want to try this year, see if you can find small plants that have come up from seeds and I would do that as early in the year as you can, before the roots go too far down.

Good luck.

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