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Hello, I'd really appreciate some advice about spring cabbage seedlings, please, if anyone could possibly help?
I sowed a dozen F1 Advantage seeds back in at beginning of August (probably too early?) with the intention of keeping them in pots until I could put them out in the garden once the tatties have been lifted.
However, I don't think the seedlings got quite enough light and they're really tall, leggy and drawn looking. They must be about eight inches long/high now but they're awfully straggly.
They've been kept in my fairly warm conservatory (in too dark a corner, admittedly) the whole time till I put them outside on Monday for the whole day, and when I got home from work the poor things had totally collapsed. I took them in at night, forgot to put them outside again yesterday, and when I got home from work yesterday they had picked themselves up again.
I guess I have three questions really ...
1) Did I sow them too early, at the beginning of August?
2) How do I harden seedlings off (never done this before!), cause I'm scared they'll just die being outdoors for the whole day?
3) Should I just chuck them out and start again, making sure the new seedlings have more light, or am I too late in the year now?
I'm going to have some successful cabbages next year or BUST I tell you! I've already lost my first attempts to cabbage root fly maggots. I WILL have cabbages to eat yet, I will, I will, I will!
Any advice to help me achieve my mission would be absolutely brilliant, I'd be really grateful.
I sowed a dozen F1 Advantage seeds back in at beginning of August (probably too early?) with the intention of keeping them in pots until I could put them out in the garden once the tatties have been lifted.
However, I don't think the seedlings got quite enough light and they're really tall, leggy and drawn looking. They must be about eight inches long/high now but they're awfully straggly.
They've been kept in my fairly warm conservatory (in too dark a corner, admittedly) the whole time till I put them outside on Monday for the whole day, and when I got home from work the poor things had totally collapsed. I took them in at night, forgot to put them outside again yesterday, and when I got home from work yesterday they had picked themselves up again.
I guess I have three questions really ...
1) Did I sow them too early, at the beginning of August?
2) How do I harden seedlings off (never done this before!), cause I'm scared they'll just die being outdoors for the whole day?
3) Should I just chuck them out and start again, making sure the new seedlings have more light, or am I too late in the year now?
I'm going to have some successful cabbages next year or BUST I tell you! I've already lost my first attempts to cabbage root fly maggots. I WILL have cabbages to eat yet, I will, I will, I will!
Any advice to help me achieve my mission would be absolutely brilliant, I'd be really grateful.
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