General Moving Tips
Moving Your Houseplants
Some Helpful Moving Tips When Moving With Houseplants
Moving Advice for Moving Houseplants and Garden Plants.
Plants help beautify our home lives. Years of loving care gets invested into to our houseplant’s growth and maintenance. You may even talk to your plants, helping them to grow.
Your family most likely wants to move your houseplants with you to your new home, as well as some of your favorite outdoor garden plants, but worry if they’ll be able to make the journey.
Prepare plants two weeks before the moving day
Find out if your Moving Company will Move Your Plants
Plants are considered perishable, since they are living things they need special handling and care to not get damaged or killed during transportation. They need air, comfortable temperatures and water. For this reason, insurance does not cover any loss or damage to your plants and somemoving may not even accept to move plants for very long distances. Contact us at least a couple of weeks before your move, to find out if we will manage with your plants or if you’ll need to take them by yourself.
Transplant Plants in clay pots to Unbreakable plastic Containers
Ceramic pots full of dirt and plants can be heavy to move and are easily breakable. To protectMoving Tips: Transplant to nonbreakable containers. both the plant and the expensive pots, transplant the plants into plastic containers just big enough for the size of the plant 2-3 weeks before moving day.
Transplanting is a shocking experience for plants, and moving day is going to be tough on them too. Best to transplant enough time in advance to let them bounce back and be strong for moving day.
Transplanting your plants into clean plastic pots and sterilized potting soil also gives you a chance to look them over for any kind of pest you want to take care of about a week before you move.