Transplanting eggplant

16 years ago

As the summer burns off my raised bed gardens, I'm cleaning them out in preparation for the fall planting season. Since the heat has taken most of the plants (and some aphids got the others), I have few qualms about taking out all the foliage and ending up with a 'razed bed' fresh for the new seasons.

Except my eggplants.

I've got two solidly established Ichibans that are thriving, and keeps producing even through the heat. Unfortunately, though, I didn't plan out that bed very well, and I'm going to have to move them. Is it possible to transplant themsafely, and if so does anyone have a tip or link to proper steps for doing so?

Albaby

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amberroses
16 years ago
Consider yourself lucky to have an eggplant thriving. My little Fairytale eggplants refuse to set fruit even though they have plenty of flowers. This heat is terrible. If I were you I would leave them alone and get some flowers to plant in the bare spots until you are ready for fall.
whgille
16 years ago
Hi Albaby

I follow the same procedure to transplant anything, depending on the size of the plant I use a shovel or a small scoop. I circle around the roots with a knife or a shovel and then lift the plant with all the root ball if possible. Before doing this make sure that you have a space ready for the plant and keep it moist for the first days, wait till the sun goes down so the plant can recover at night.

Silvia
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albaby
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks, Silvia. I'm going to clear out all the other vegetation first, and then I'll follow that procedure. Obviously not doing anything this weekend, though - I'm in Miami, and it looks like we're in for a bit of weather from TD3/Colin.

Amberroses, I know how lucky I am - and I'm going to wait to move them as long as possible. But I'm afraid that they're a casualty of my inexperience. I had no garden plan when I took my first stab at this. So not knowing any better, I planted them on the south side of my raised beds, so they shade pretty much the whole area.

I'm taking out everything and starting from scratch. In a few weeks, I'm going to solarize those beds - and I'm planning on starting seeds during the first week in August for a complete mid-September replanting. To make that work, I have to move the Ichibans to another part of the yard.

Albaby
saldut
16 years ago
I love my Ichibans, they are producing very well as long as I keep them watered... they are in pots however, with saucers.. and get shade in the afternoon... I don't put them in the ground because of the nematodes... same with my peppers, they are producing, but I am getting some holes from something eating away at them, not sure what, yet.... I have some hot peppers also and they are not to my taste, but they sure are pretty... I got them for my Grandson when we went to HD, he took one taste and changed his mind ! but they are still there because as I said, they are sure pretty !...........sally