{"id":461,"date":"2012-04-07T22:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T03:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-08-24T22:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T03:14:47","slug":"how-to-transplant-seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/07\/how-to-transplant-seedlings\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Transplant Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few steps to follow to help get your seedlings safely in the ground after they have been\u00a0growing\u00a0in pots:<\/p>\n

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  1. \"\"Move back any mulch or covering you have in your beds. \u00a0(note the wood mulch shown in this picture is NOT approved in the Citizen Gardener method)<\/li>\n
  2. Dig a hole about the size of your pot, remove and save soil.<\/li>\n
  3. Add a small amount of organic fertilizer<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Carefully remove seedling from pot. \u00a0(don’t pull on stem– turn upside down and carefully\u00a0persuade\u00a0plant to come out without damaging it) \u00a0(Peat pots wick moisture out of the soil, prevent roots from penetrating, and take a long time to break down— go ahead and peel the peat pot off the root ball)<\/li>\n
  5. Fix girdling \/ circling roots. \u00a0If the roots have grown to the wall of the pot, they were forced to change directions, usually circling the pot in an intertwined mess. \u00a0If you leave the roots like this, they won’t ever grow ‘out’ in the soil and plant health will suffer. \u00a0Gently untangle and free up the roots. \u00a0(steps 4 and 5 can be skipped if your seeds were started in soil cubes<\/a>)
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  6. \"\"Place plant in hole and adjust height so that new home is at same height as old home. \u00a0Tomato plants may be\u00a0buried\u00a0deeper if desired, but growth delay will possibly occur while new roots in correct location are grown.<\/li>\n
  7. Add soil around seedling and press gently down on soil to enable good soil wicking ability.<\/li>\n
  8. Mark plant with marker and record date and location in your garden diary<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Add a small amount or organic fertilizer on top of soil above root zone.<\/li>\n
  10. Replace the mulch. \u00a0Don’t allow mulch to come in contact with stem of plant.<\/li>\n
  11. Water plant well with compost tea<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    A few steps to follow to help get your seedlings safely in the ground after they have been\u00a0growing\u00a0in pots: Move back any mulch or covering you have in your beds. \u00a0(note the wood mulch shown in this picture is NOT approved in the Citizen Gardener method) Dig a hole about the size of your pot, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[112,113],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-seedlings","tag-transplants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jPFc-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}