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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: terrier on July 17, 2017, 18:27:11
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Is it too late to sow PSB seeds now. I put out all my young plants and they have been blitzed, nothing was left apart from the stalks about one inch above the ground :( Probably wishful thinking mid July but just wondered if anyone had tried.
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if you have spare seeds then give it a go you havent got much to loose and maybe buy 6 plants for backup from the garden centre id give it a go
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I have done PSB sown this late before and they don't really get very big before the winter ... they do then grow a bit in the spring but the yield is not what you'd expect from purple sprouting and it comes quite late.
A good site to get PSB and other winter greens plants from at this time of year is Robinsons (www.mammothonion.co.uk) ... they do 5 plants for £7.50 and I was very successful with them the one year my own sowings failed.
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I've put the seeds in a deep tray of compost out in the sunshine, I'm hoping for an extended Summer, maybe until mid November :sunny:
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I've put the seeds in a deep tray of compost out in the sunshine, I'm hoping for an extended Summer, maybe until mid November :sunny:
thats the ticket positive thinking lol
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Only a couple of weeks late in some respects so I am sure they should be okay ...let us know how they get on.
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A good site to get PSB and other winter greens plants from at this time of year is Robinsons (www.mammothonion.co.uk) ... they do 5 plants for £7.50 and I was very successful with them the one year my own sowings failed.
I thought you had made a mistake with the price you typed for 5 PSB plants, Squeezyjohn, but I was amazed when I went into your link and saw that they were indeed £7.50 for 5. I always thought they were expensive in our local garden centre where they sell 8 for £2.99.
I would certainly think it worth sowing some seeds now than paying an arm and a leg for them.
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my local HOMEBASE had 10 PSB plants last week for £1.97 as well as a range of other veg .