My starter plants of sprouting broccoli and kale arrived today....am now panicing as per usual, because the place I was going to plant them (new spot so hopefully club root free) is still full of sweetcorn and squash :o Never really had much sucess before with brassicas because of the clubroot :'( but now I have this new area I thought I would try again.
Soooooooo can I put them into small pots until the area is ready?(about a month) or will this give them a check in growth and so they wont grow over the winter? Many thanks Dottie P.
I'll let you know next year -I just put my Kale into pots as the spot wasn't ready yet. I don't see why it should be a problem as long as they keep growing, if they slow down you may need to pot them up, but I'd have thought you'd be ok for a month.
Wiser heads may know more though.
Jeremy
Thanks for that Jeremy, at least it doesn't sound like too much of a hare brained sceme if you are doing it too! ;D
My wife might not agree -all hair & no brain, that's me ::)
I don't see why it wouldn't work with brassicas. I believe that one method of overcoming clubroot is to keep the brassica plants in pots before planting out so that the roots and plant get a head start before being attacked by the disease.
Not sure about Kale.
Jeremy, Mr Pinks is the other way round! ;D
Or, less trouble, you could 'heel' them in in a shady spot?
If I had hair on top, I would have fewer scars there. All doorways are made for midgets! = Tim
Hubby hates the slow large droplets of rain Tim! ;D To heel in do I just dig a trench, pop them in and backfill?
Yes. But if you do decide to pot them, don`t use soilless compost, which encourages clubroot.
Thank you all for your replies, pots it is!
Hugh, just curious,why does the soilless encourage clubroot? One would think it would be the other way around!