Can i move my veggies?

[Pumpkyn]

Hi All

I have some broad beans, red, onions and broccoli growing in my vegtrug as well as some carrots, spring onions and beetroot seeds i have just sown. However, i want to move my vegtrug and it is too heavy with all the compost in it, so i'm thinking of digging up my veg, taking out the compost, moving the trug and them planting them back in the trug.

Is this likely to kill off any of my veggies?

Any advice would be most appreciated. This is my first year trying to grow things, so i expect to be asking alot of questions.

Thanks

[veggiechicken]

Hi and welcome
Depends on how well established your veggies are. How long ago did you plant the veg?

[Bigmallly]

Assuming it's one of the wooden triangular structures, raise one end up on bricks or blocks, attach wheels to the legs, fasten 2 handles to the other end, get another pair of hands & move the trug. If you stay on the vine long enough you will soon learn that my mind seldom works the same as normal folk...............BTW.......Welcome.

[veggiechicken]

A trolley jack might help

[Scarlet]

My OH always uses the boys skateboards...we moved a piano on a couple once

[Scarlet]

It must be pretty big to have all that stuff growing init?

[Pumpkyn]

Thanks, it is pretty big 1.8m and very heavy, has about 420l of compost in it.

My broccoli, onions and broadbeans have been growing since november, the others are seeds i planted last week.

Don't mind writing off the seedlings and replanting them as long as the grown veg will survive the move. Might even move the broccoli into another container as its pretty big.

[Scarlet]

A photo would help but digging up plants that have been in stu for a few months maybe not such a good idea...how big are they?

[roitelet]

I would be wary of moving plants that have been in the ground that long. The Broccoli will probably bolt the broad beans are well established and would need to be moved with as little disturbance as possible as will the onions and they may bolt as well. If you really can't wait until the these three have cropped you will have to take the risk. Personally I would wait.

[Scoot]

How badly do you need to move it? Just by moving it you're probably not going to have a good outcome with the veg thst has been there months.

[bramble]

I moved an old ceramic sink about 4 weeks ago. I levered two brush handles underneath and kept sliding it along until I got it where I wanted to position it. And yes, it was heavy and full of soil but I managed.
I think you will probably loose your crops if you move them now.

[vixylix]

Carrots definitely don't like being transplanted!

[Pumpkyn]

Thanks for your advice, i'm going to have to move it and risk losing my crops and start again if needs be.
Thanks x

[Bigmallly]

Just a quicky.............Could you not leave your veg in situ & remove soil from around the plants therby reducing the weight without disturbing the plants..............told you my mind doesn't work like everyone else's...................

[ESBkevin]

Stop watering it and put a clear plastic sheet over to keep the rain off. Most of the weight is moisture and the plants can stand a week with a bit less with no real problem. the new seeds would be a little more susceptable so putting them in seed trays again for a week might pay dividends. You can lift the Broad beens and possibly the onions but the brochcolli likes settled soil and would be most prone to failure.

Getting some of the weight down would make it more manageable. Wheels of any sort (bigger the better) will help. What about jacking one end until a wheelbarrow can slide underneath to take some of the strain?