Ric@rdo wrote:
Hello all,

I've been reading URG for a while now, after moving into a new house with a
large garden, I thought I'd better take an interest in gardening if I'm to
keep it all under control.

So, my question to the group is: there is an area of the garden that is
currently planted with various roses, it's a little overgrown but not too
bad. What we want to do is to turn this into a vegetable plot and
transplant the roses elswhere in the garden. Is this possible? will it be
successful? how am I best to go about such a task?

Your ideas and any advice will be greatly appreciated.



I moved some the other year - some with lots of earth around the roots
and some more or less yanked out of the ground. All have done ok, even
the ones that were sat out of soil at the back of the garden didn't
show bad signs until the hot weather came. Others have done better
since being moved. I'm no expert gardener and I was surprised how
resilient they were. YMMV