Pak Choi

[boxy1974]

Just been to B+Q to get some large pots the the green house and i came across eight small pak choi plants for 30p. Well for that price i had to pick them up. My question is,will pak choi grow over winter in a unheated green house. Never done this before.

Chhers Boxy

[sarraceniac]

Hi Boxy. Pak choi is easy and hardy. It is cabbage with attitude. I grow it outside over winter on the semi-tropical Yorkshire coast so should be OK anywhere in the UK under glass. Can you amend your profile to tell us where you are? We aren't nosey but it does help to know when we are discussing things with someone whether they are from from Land's End or John O'Groats. The British climate varies so even within a few miles.

[snohare]

Pak choi are particularly good for lower temperatures, it is if you sow them in summer that they have problems - higher temperatures make them bolt. Really, they are almost specifically an autumn/winter crop. It is often recommended that they only be sown after midsummer.
But as there now seem to be hundreds of varieties, who knows if some of them don't stick to those rules !

[boxy1974]

Thanks for your replys. New to all this, so ive just updated my profile. Sunny Burnley in the northwest.

[Alice]

Pak Choi grow very quickly Boxy so I think you will be eating the ones you bought before there is any real winter. If you want some more they are really easy from seed and should be fine in your greenhouse. They like to be cool and well watered. I love them.

[Two_Sheds]

Slugs really LOVE pak choi ... take precautions if you want to eat any yourself

[sarraceniac]

Slugs really LOVE pak choi ... take precautions if you want to eat any yourself

Hey TS, shouldn't that read 'Slugs love brassicas and when Pak Choi is around there is very little else for the little bleeders'? . As an addendum, my horse radish has no leaves left. 2 weeks ago it looked like a jungle (glad the roots have formed). I have put some rare roast beef out for the slugs. Hope they don't realise it is laced with cyanide.

[Storming Norman]

Don't know how many plants you have there Boxy but they can get quite big and tend to mature all at the same time.

Try and use some of them for baby leaves, and let them re-grow to spread out the bounty. I have purple leaved pak choi on the go and they are very pretty as well.

If you are growing from seed in a greenhouse Mizuna is another really nice crop for the winter - it can be used like lettuce when really small, and stir fried as well.

[annacruachan]

Thank you all for the reminder about pak choi. I had really given up on it after a massive bolting in the summer - vowed never to grow them again! But in the greenhouse during the winter is a good idea.

[Bren In Pots]

Mine bolted this year so I'm trying some in the greenhouse they've only been in a week and are already an inch high.

[smallblueplanet]

Its hot weather wot makes them bolt Bren, the g/h might still be too warm for them?

[Bren In Pots]

I'd already got the seed so thought I'd give it a go and set a dozen of them. I might be lucky with them.

[smallblueplanet]

Transplant them outside, we start ours in modules?

[Bren In Pots]

Thanks I'll do that tomorrow I've got space in the trough where my parsnips didn't grow.