puglogic
5-3-12, 4:35pm
And no, I don't mean gardening sans underwear :D
We moved out of a house last fall and into a new one, and we've had the old one for sale for some time. We're (hopefully) a few days from being rid of it finally, and my husband thinks I'm crazy for going over to the old place to rescue a bunch of the perennials.
First, there's the rhubarb, brought to me from Wisconsin 20 years ago, and which I've been toting/transplanting from home to home since. It's a beautiful, sweet red variety that you can almost eat fresh.
There's my valerian, which took me two years to establish.
My jerusalem artichokes. Motherwort. Horseradish. Egyptian onions. Lovage. Ft. Laramie strawberries. Chervil. Sorrel. Garlic chives. Back and forth, back and forth, but luckily the old house is just 5 minutes away.
AM I crazy? It just seems like I can't take the chance that whoever's moving in there is just going to let them die, or bluegrass them over. Plus I don't want to spend the hundreds of dollars to replace it all. But maybe I'm just a nutty gardener..... Anybody else ever done commando transplanting to rescue something?
We moved out of a house last fall and into a new one, and we've had the old one for sale for some time. We're (hopefully) a few days from being rid of it finally, and my husband thinks I'm crazy for going over to the old place to rescue a bunch of the perennials.
First, there's the rhubarb, brought to me from Wisconsin 20 years ago, and which I've been toting/transplanting from home to home since. It's a beautiful, sweet red variety that you can almost eat fresh.
There's my valerian, which took me two years to establish.
My jerusalem artichokes. Motherwort. Horseradish. Egyptian onions. Lovage. Ft. Laramie strawberries. Chervil. Sorrel. Garlic chives. Back and forth, back and forth, but luckily the old house is just 5 minutes away.
AM I crazy? It just seems like I can't take the chance that whoever's moving in there is just going to let them die, or bluegrass them over. Plus I don't want to spend the hundreds of dollars to replace it all. But maybe I'm just a nutty gardener..... Anybody else ever done commando transplanting to rescue something?