Yes. That is your best bet if you're going to grow outside in New England. I decided to try it last year and quickly realized the most efficient way to grow outdoors in New England is in pots, big enough if you are doing living soil to get the biology going good and enough nutrients to the plant threw the cycle, but small enough where you can move them indoors, out of the sun, into the sun, and so on. Especially during the end of flower when the humidity is 80 plus and temps are getting down into the 50's at night, you want to be able to move them into shelter or indoors when it rains or when it gets too cold. Towards the end I was bringing them inside EVERY time it rained, got too cold at night, or any issues that needed addressing, and even had a big box fan blowing on them outside 24/7 to keep pests and mold/but rot at bay. Almost guaranteed a nice fresh batch of bud rot if you don't really do some things to prevent it. If you just put them in the ground and let them go, or throw them in pots and leave them in the same spot the whole time, your probably going to have to throw out at least half of your grow or more (if not the whole thing). Even with all the precautions I did, I still ended up with about 4-7 grams of bud rotted nugs I had to toss in the old trash and a few budworms. Assholes had two fan leaves filled with bud worm eggs or caterpillar eggs in the beginning of flower. Thank God I caught those before they hatched.