Can hardy plug plants go outside now?

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• Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246

  April 2018

  Thanks Lyn.

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• Bright star Posts: 1,153

  April 2018

  Thx for that link Lyn. I thought I was getting them at a good price on am****n, but on eBay they’re over a pound cheaper! 😀

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  April 2018

  I try to buy from eBay as much as I can as they give a bigger donation to my favourite charity. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• DeeWest Posts: 39

  April 2018

  Thanks everyone!
  
  What confuses me, is that most of the seed packets say that they can be started outside now. How come the seeds can cope with the outdoors now, but plug plants cant?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2018

  The plug plants will have been growing in protected conditions , probably in a greenhouse or under shelter of some sort, so will be a bit 'soft'  and will need hardening off before they can cope with the chills ... plants grown from seeds sown outside will have 'grown up with it' and will already be acclimatised.
    
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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