In situ "v" transplanting?

[broadway]

Are there again golden rules re planting veg in situ against transplanting?

Cheers

[Snadger]

Sometimes transplanting can improve the plants chances by allowing more roots to develope laterally! If you use both methods from seeds sown at the same time you should get a longer cropping period as the in-situ plants will mature first!

[wormlady]

Dont brassicas benefit from being transplanted? I have to grow pretty much everything in small pots and plant out when they can withstand the slugs. The only things i sow in situ are carrots, parsnips, onions and spuds, oh and peas but I do half n half with peas - some straight in, some in loo roll middles.

[Paulottie]

I am definately a sow in modules convert. Just so much easier with less backbreaking thinning and hand weeding; and I have two greenhouses at home, where I work mostly, and can keep an eye on them and protect them from cold nights and slugs. One advantage is not having gappy rows and I find I can stagger sowings and manage the land much more intensively.

On the other hand, there is a time in spring when I find myself overwhelmed with trays that need hardening off, watering, feeding all the time. It uses lots of potting compost and you can find that things are spoiling for want of setting out. As mentioned before there are some crops that are easy to sow direct

So on balance a combination is the way forward for me to achieve continuity over a longer season so, my golden rule is 'little, often and not to thickly'

[Two_Sheds]

I can't sow anything direct, the slugs just strip the lot as it comes up. I get no crops if I direct sow, so now do everything in pots/trays.
Stuff that doesn't like transplanting, like carrots, does well in paper pots that can be put in the ground whole. The only carrots I got this year were from paper pots.

[carlseawolf]

I sow all root crops direct and brassicas into pots first , not because of any ground problems but because i plant into raised beds and plant in blocks of 24 so plant up 30 pots in case of damage. this method has the advantage that the ground can be weeded just before they go in so no weed compition for the first few weeks and no playing hunt your plant from the seeds when weeding when seed sowing .
Another plus is modules can be stagered started so getting constant harvesting instead of gluts which opens ground up to other crops.