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is it safe to plant them out yet ?

mine have been started in pots for about a month, and are going mad !!

thanks steve

Gonna snow next week, im inclined to wait till after that, ive got 40 plants at the 4 leaf stage.

You wouldn't do any harm, but it might be better to leave them till it warms up again. Leave them somewhere cool, or even outside in their pots, and they'll be OK. Mine were in a cold frame through the worst of the cold weather, survived with no problem in pots, then were eaten by mice.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on March 28, 2010, 19:32:25
You wouldn't do any harm, but it might be better to leave them till it warms up again. Leave them somewhere cool, or even outside in their pots, and they'll be OK. Mine were in a cold frame through the worst of the cold weather, survived with no problem in pots, then were eaten by mice.

Ah thats because you forgot the old rhyme about peas and beans.

"One to rot and one to grow, one for the mice and one for the crow"

They're usually safe on the top shelf, though they'd have them like a shot at ground level. The mice were evidently hungrier than usual, and they didn't stop at the statutory 25% either.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on March 28, 2010, 19:53:18
They're usually safe on the top shelf, though they'd have them like a shot at ground level. The mice were evidently hungrier than usual, and they didn't stop at the statutory 25% either.

The crows may have subcontracted out............

I planted mine out today. Properly hardened off I hope.

mine are out and braving the cold.......    8)

sowed mine direct a few weeks ago, they are just begining to show
marg

I have been chtting them on kitchen roll and then putting them out under plastic bottles.  The first batch now have four or five leaves and I have taken the bottles for the next but one batch.  I earth up the stems to the first leaf to deter the pigeons from attacking them.  They have been outside now for a while and looking very bonny.  Some have caught up the only three that survived from a pre winter sowings and now over taken them.