I've various young plants in my house at the moment. The instructions with them all say 'grow on indoors'.
Does this mean in the house, or in the (unheated, PVC) greenhouse?
Or does it depend on them being hardy or not?
I've lost a few to wilting, which may have been due to the heat at home.
It means grow on indoors (if they are half hardies) until frosts are past
or grow on indoors until large enough to harden off and plant (if they are hardy)
Or if they are tropical grow on indoors means find a permenant spot inside.
Its around two weeks until the last frost here.
this is what i am doing
i have mini greenhouses outside and i have been moving out hardy seedlings once they get big enough to survive , usually when they are a couple of inches wide and have at least 2 true leaves (not the seed leaves they first grow). I already have sunflowers, honesty, leeks and onions helichrysums and californian poppies in the mini greenhouses.
I am just sowing my half hardys this week- such as sweet corn, french beans, zinnias, mesembrianthemums these i will keep inside for at least another three weeks, then they will get a week or two in the mini greenhouses to harden of and then i will plant them late april or early may
if these went out now they would not survive well at all, and later sown things catch up quickly in the warmer days of may.
If youve sown half hardies to early then keep them in as much light as possible, open the window in the day near them if you can to give them air and keep an eye on the watering, i find that i get damping off when i have left the soil to dry and then to wet, the aim is to keep the soil moist but not soaking and it really helps to water from the bottom not flatten the seeds onto the soil by watering from the top.
Its not long now until winter really lets go, but try to hold on.
hope that helps a bit
x sunloving
If you have to keep them on a windowsill or resticted light, put foil around the pots or trays like a screen it keeps the light even & reflects it to keep the seeds from getting to leggy & spindly works everytime ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: sunloving on April 01, 2010, 18:28:21
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Its around two weeks until the last frost here.
Its not long now until winter really lets go, but try to hold on.
:o ???...around two weeks!!!..this winter is never ever going to let go again...
all my plants are well and truly wrapped around electric plankets...my greenhouses are not anymore nurseries for young plants...more like old brussels homes.. ;) ;D