Welcome to the new Urban Farm - part two of moving a garden

Moving went pretty smooth. We are all moved in and I just finished transplanting the last plant today. Some of them are looking pretty pathetic but I think most of the plants that I took were hearty enough to pull through.

These plants were taken out of the last garden on Tuesday of last week, and put in tubs. They have been in the tubs for 5 days so they are still looking pretty good for not being directly transplanted into the ground. I would have done it earlier in the week, but literally had no time.

This is the only vegetable section I have set aside so far, but I have a lot of room to work with, so there may be more to come. Here are the pictures I just took today of the new garden.

Heirloom tomatoes are slightly wilted 

Elephant garlic and red onions in the front

The strongest lettuce pulling through

Peas a little wilted. It was a rough transfer.

View from the shed of the duck house in the back. Veggies on the right. 

Stella's new (bigger) pond and her duck house

View from duck house of garage/shed and veg plot

View of the house and lawn from the duck house

Stella now has a lot more room to walk around, forage for bugs and worms, and a bigger pond to swim, dive and plash around in. She seems pretty happy now that she is getting used to her hew surroundings. I'm sure she will love all the fruit that those trees are going to dump around her garden.

Stella's duck house made the move just fine

Moving a garden - part one

Due to a number of circumstances, we decided to move to a new (bigger) house, very close to where the UrbanHoe all started. Of course I could not abandon my much loved garden, so I took it with me. I was not too sure how this garden transfer would turn out, because I have never done it before. Here were the tips that I listened to:

• Transplant at dusk, or at night when the plants are sleeping - this causes less stress
• Dig very very deep as to not nip off any tap roots
• Remove as little dart from the root ball as possible
• Once you have them in the buckets, water them

Here are the last pics of the garden before we dug it all up. I'll note which plots we took, and which ones we left for the wonderful neighbors to tend to.

Farewell garden cottage

Hybrid Miller/Tammer salad, ate it

Arugula, left it there

Bolted chard, left it there

Green onions/scallions, left them there

Lettuce, took half

Carrots looking great, to bad I had to leave these guys

Elephant garlic, took it!

Heirloom Tomatoes, took them

Took 'em

I also took the fennel, the peas, some Yukon gold potatoes and some beets to see if they would make it.
Here are some of the pics from the transfer

 There were about 2x that many tubs by the time we packed the truck