Moving geraniums

**Sweepster** · 22-05-2009, 11:51 PM

It's usually recommended to divide plants in Spring or Autumn - I don't think doing it now would do any real harm as long as you kept them well-watered until they got established.

You can use two garden forks, back to back, to prise the rootball in half, then in half again, etc. I generally just chop it up with a spade though.

**rana** · 23-05-2009, 05:59 AM

True hardy Geraniums are tough as old boots, so splitting it now using Sweepsters method should be no problem. I am suprised it is not outside all year, while they will die back in winter they always grow back again the following spring.

**Two_Sheds** · 23-05-2009, 07:51 AM

My neighbour dug his up last week and gave them to me ... I puddled them in really well and they are doing well, flowering their socks off

**LizyDrippin** · 23-05-2009, 10:48 AM

Thanks for the replys.

The plants are three years old, and have been in the pot outside all that time, it's only now I can put them in the ground because I have a flower bed at last.

I think the main problem will be getting the root ball out of the pot, it's just under two feet round and is solid root ball, it weighs a tonne, should only take three of us

I'll do the supervising

**rana** · 24-05-2009, 04:23 PM

Sounds like you'll need a chainsaw to get through the root ball !

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