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    When to move seedlings

    Hello

    My conservatory is full seedlings and getting a bit silly now. I have potted on some toms today and they fell over with the shock of cold compost! Thankfully they recovered. When will it be safe to move them to an unheated greenhouse? Will they suffer as it is quite warm in the day and cold at night or should I keep them at home a little longer?

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    I'd leave it a while longer, looking back at last years diary I moved mine into the gh in April...
    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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    • #3
      Great question. I was just thinking the same! Look forward to the replies from fellow grapes.

      Loving my allotment!

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      • #4
        Just checked my journal and my toms were planted in the greenhouse border May 9th, it does seem a long time away.
        Location....East Midlands.

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        • #5
          Depends on what they are, some are more hardy than others.

          My toms will sit in the house for another month.

          All my brassica's, lettuce, radish spring and main crop onions are already out there in the GH.

          Colin
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          • #6
            Try a vegetable rack it holds quite a few pots/trays
            http://petersgarden101.blogspot.co.uk/

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            • #7
              This is why I only sowed my tomatoes last weekend, have tried earlier sowings but the plants get far too big before I can put them in the unheated greenhouse / polytunnel and at the moment it's far too cold and they'll be in the house for another month yet.

              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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              • #8
                I thought it had to be nearer 10 degrees minimum before putting them out? So a little while yet...

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                • #9
                  Mine are sown and left in the greenhouse. No mollycoddling for me

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                  • #10
                    Is it a heated greenhouse taff?
                    The problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.

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                    • #11
                      Mine are in the unheated conservatory - which is a fair bit warmer than the greenhouse. Still dropping to below 10C at night, so they come into the house for the night.

                      That's doable whilst they are still in 3" pots (I have trays that contain 20 pots each), but they will move to 4.5" this weekend and then its too much faff ... so I will put them in 4-tier blow-aways in the conservatory, zipped-up at night, with a light bulb in the bottom which has maintained 10C in previous years.

                      I don't put out into the greenhouse until May (by which time the Toms will be in 9" or 12" pots and about 3' tall)
                      Last edited by Kristen; 25-03-2011, 07:17 AM.
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                      • #12
                        My windowsills are occupied until probably the end of April when I start hardening off into blowaways. As my blowaways blew away, I'd better get my finger out and order something suitable!
                        Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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