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    Just got an allotment, and there's some (I think) gooseberries, some other fruit bushes, currants, and raspberries.

    The paths around my plot are being widened, so I'm going to either loose some bushes, or move them - is it too late for me to move them? Some are budding up, whilst the gooseberries are throwing new leaf growth out.

  • #2
    They should be ok to move Chris, take as much soil with the root as you can, if they're going to go anyway you've nothing to lose.
    "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

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    • #3
      As above: they're going to die if you don't move them.

      Keep them well-watered for this season as they will be missing half of their roots. They may well not grow until next year and they may suffer some loss of leaves or some stems suffer dieback.

      I'd say that the chances of transplant success will be quite good - but get them moved as soon as possible, before they really get growing. Also have planting holes partially prepared for them before digging them up, so that the roots have less chance to dry out and be killed.
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      • #4
        Thanks both, I was thinking happy to miss a years worth of crop - for the potential to keep some freebies.. Have some rhubarb that needs moving too, though do have some at home incase that dies

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        • #5
          Don't worry about killing rhubarb Chris, you won't succeed. I took on a new plot years ago (I think Victoria was Queen at the time, or at least it feels like it some times) and, not knowing the rhubarb was there, the plot got its usual dose of weed killer and 3 weeks later it was rotavated. The rhubarb, which had been hidden under the dead grass, grew happily. It's really difficult to kill !
          http://norm-foodforthought.blogspot.com/

          If it ain't broke, don't fix it and if you ain't going to eat it, don't kill it

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          • #6
            Sounds good, whatever doesn't kill you and all that!

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