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Find a secluded spot in your garden and plant everything directly into the soil there. Most plants can be easily relocated later. Anything that doesn’t survive the winter can go on the compost. Plastic tunnels don’t work well.

We did this with our “half” garden… we brought many cuttings from the old garden. Some plants I only moved to the appropriate place two years later.

We planted several plants with their pots buried next to a wall, so the pots don’t freeze through. It worked well.

Steffi33 schrieb:

Choose a secluded corner in your garden and plant everything directly into the ground there. Most plants can be easily relocated later. Anything that doesn’t survive the winter can go on the compost pile. Plastic tunnels are not very effective.

We did it this way with our “half” garden… we brought many cuttings from the old garden. Some I only moved to the right spot two years later.

This is actually best for the plants. The biggest risk for potted plants is not freezing, but drying out or waterlogging. Proper watering of pots in winter is tricky; it’s better to plant them relatively close together in a bed.

Holes in the bottom of the pot help prevent waterlogging and should be there anyway. For me, freezing is actually the problem, especially when it gets cold like the winter before last.

Steffi33 schrieb:

Find a secluded spot in your garden and plant everything directly in the ground there.. most of it can be easily relocated later.

I did the same during the construction phase and the first winter afterwards. It works perfectly.

haydee schrieb:

Holes at the bottom of the pot help prevent waterlogging; they should be there anyway.

That's obvious. In winter, most plants need much less water; otherwise, the roots will rot. Leaves don’t absorb water and shoots don’t grow either. I find it almost impossible to give the right amount of water. On top of that, there are the changing conditions under the plastic cover? I don’t think much would survive with me.