Outstanding stand of 'mums!

i think you are over-thinking it ...

just take a big gob of soil with the plant ..

and keep them deeply watered for a week or two ...

and you should be all set ...

due to the bolting.. they are a bit ahead of schedule.. but what can you do ...

its all about the least impact to the root system.. and a big gob of soil would help avoid such ...

and it is good to do it right after pinch back.. since there is less leaf mass for the disturbed roots to cope with.. while the roots start working again ...

as to whether saturday itself is OK .. i will leave that part up to you ...

ken

lol Ken, you're right I do tend to overthink when it comes to gardening. Thanks for your advice. I feel comfortable now in transplanting them. I'll also keep the mulch around the new transplants to help protect the roots.

and do make note of that highly technical gardening term:

GOB OF SOIL ...

its imperative that your transplants have said GOB... to insure ease of moving ...

its the fact that say .. 90% of the roots are never really dug out of the soil ...

its like they will never know they were moved ...

unfortunately.. now that i live on sand.. its hard to take a GOB.. as the sand tends to fall off.. no matter what i do ...

GOB-ness RULES!!!

ken

ps: gold star for highest use of GOB in one post ... lol .. but now i am getting silly

I will make sure that when I dig up the gob of mums that I also take a GOB OF SOIL with them. I will then take the GOB OF SOIL from the place I am going to transplant the gob of mums and put it where the original GOB OF SOIL came from. This way I won't be missing any GOBs OF SOIL in my flower bed. GOBless spots in my flower may create erosion, and I certainly don't want that.
Wow, ken, that was hard to say and write. I'm all GOBed out.

i believe you have out gobbed me.. lol

forget the star.. gold medal performance.. or maybe.. a gold gob.. instead of a medal ...

ken