Like Grawrc I am confused. I certainly do not like to give any transplant shock. I usually put them out during the day in a sheltered position and gradually get them used to the wind etc. Even after planting out they might get fleeced or cloched up on cold or windy days. I would reckon to try and keep them above about 7C as much as poss. I might also try and pick a warm spell of weather, but the forecasts are notoriously unreliable in their predictions here.
Acclimation and acclimating are not words in my vocabulary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclimatizationhttp://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/914/Though this article gives good info re hardening off, author must come from near you.
Davesgarden defines acclimation as hardening off:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/terms/go/2161/I think you will find in gardening we here in the UK just call this hardening off.
I do think we are getting problems with nomenclature. Looks like we will need a translation.
I think we also call succession planting Catch cropping.
Then there is intercropping - two different crop at the same time
and Companion planting - growing flowers etc amongst the veg to attract bees and deter pest.
I spent years working with charts, figures and spreadsheets. I still find your charts rather daunting. I do think you need to run them past a cross section of people to see how they get on with them.
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