I understand the impatience thing...

How big are your plants right now? If they haven't been in the ground very long, you can try to transplant, but you'll be taking a chance. Some plants may do ok, others may croak. If you do decide to try to move some things, take as much dirt as possible with the plant (trying not to disturb the roots), water in well, and provide shade (fabric shade cover, maybe?) for several days.

Good luck!

Most of them are still in the 1 to 1.5 foot range. I have one cherry tomato that is probably closer to 2+ feet. The squash is in the .5 to 1 ft diameter size.

We actually ended up building all the beds today. We even sealed them. I'm going to try and move stuff over, i think. I just can't stand the idea of those beds sitting empty. I'm also going to be able to add more plants now that they will be in decent soil.

*happy planning face*

Thanks for your response, i can use all the advice i can get!

IDMike

I would be inclined to keep at least some of the already-planted areas going, especially if the plants are doing well. This is my first year of SFG, and I started with only one 4x4 box, located adjacent to my regular in-ground garden of approximately 12x30 dimensions. As it turns out, my SFG is not doing nearly as well as the regular (non-square foot) garden, so I am very glad to have kept the regular garden this year while I am experimenting with the square foot style.

Next year you can always replace your entire regular garden with the square foot style, if you choose to go that way. Based on my experience this year, I think I will be adding more square foot beds next year, but keeping my regular 12x30 plot as well.

I would definitely transplant. It is only June 1!! Plenty of time for them to go through the shock and recover. I have just transplanted, as this was my plan in my new raised beds as well. They are doing great.

I wanted to get started planting, so I planted several things in my first raised bed. Now that they are all done, transplant it is. I now have 10 new beds planted from seed, or transplanted from another bed and all are doing very well.

Good Luck!!

g

Thanks for all the great input folks. I just thought i'd follow up and let you know what we decided to do.

Many of the plants had been in the ground for over a month and were still only a foot or so high. Not exactly thriving! So we decided to risk it. We filled the beds and transplanted everything yesterday. What a workout!

If they'd been doing well i'd have left them 'till next year but even with amending the soil in the spring it seemed to be harder and harder for them. And then there were the slugs. Evil slimey monsters...

I'll try and get some pictures posted as soon as i figure out how. *grin*

IDMike

I'd love to see some pics of your garden. Hope all your transplants make it.

FYI, I just posted a follow-up message to gabbygardener (subject - my first salad) to ask how to go about adding pics...