Transplant in bucket or in the ground?

Hi, i'm thinking about transplanting my seedlings to the wild outdoors. I see i have only 2 options: 1) transplant them in to the ground. I dug a bucket-sized hole and filled it with good soil because the natural soil is mostly clay and rock. 2) or I can put them in a large bucket full of good dirt. The only advantege of this is that i can move them around. I wonder which method get's better rain water? Any recomendations or any other methods?

Dig a bucket sized hole in the ground,then put yer bucket in it.That way you keep a low profile and you can grab and run if you need to.

thanks, good idea. But will the roots spread far into the bad clay and mostly rock soil if i plant them in the ground? this will make them bigger if they spread their roots more? Though i have seen big plants in small buckets

Buy a bag of pebbles or just go to the nearest school and fill up a bucket of rocks from their playground, Toss those in the bottom of your hole that your putting your bucket in. This insures that the roots wont spread and that the hole will drain properly and the water wont sit in the bucket and cause root rot.

Don't forget to put drainage holes in the bottom of your bucket.