From Seed to Seed:
Plant Science for K-8 Educators

Digging Deeper

"Baby Your Babies"

Root hairs are extremely delicate and easily damaged. When transplanting plants of any size, even the most conscientious gardener damages many, many root hairs. That's why you need to "baby" your transplants by keeping the soil around roots as intact as possible.

Since they have lost some of their ability to take up water and nutrients-and therefore are more susceptible to damage by heat and drought-you need to baby them even after transplanting is complete.

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