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The packet says plant out in the autumn. Why can't I do it now?

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  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Lol b3 seems I’m only getting male flowers. Folks say the weather has something to do with it. Last year I had to invent recipes to use them up. I can vouch for courgette cake, like carrot cake but different colour.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mine are mostly male too. I'm more than happy to blame it on the weather!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Mike AllenMike Allen Posts: 208
    B3.  There is more to it than what the members comments have brought forth.

    I will try and be brief.  In thge commercial world including seed company's, much research goes into marketing along with scientific research.  Having thoroughly tested and trialled seeds and plants, the advice given is the best to date.

    So your seedlings/young plants, to you appear ready to plant out.  Why not.  Planting out basically refers to planting in the garden.  The garden being a minature of say a farmers field.
    No disrespect but.  The garden and the field undergo changes throughout the year.  Soil temperatures change.  pH levels change, in fact so many changes in the soil take place, without us noticing it.  However in the plant kingdom, there exists a very real connection.  OK we have become familiar that certain times in the plant calender certain things take place.  This is all related to the plants DNA and the soil chemestry.  Part of the divine structure of life.

    So it has been learned that your plants do not fit in with the program.  Simply.  The receptive elements of the soil are not aligned.  The maths and science has been done for you....Be patient.  So you then ask. What about the plants that have grown insitu?  Here the seed has been sown, geminated and grown.  So so much of the natural soil media is part of them.  Usually in such sowings, thinning out takes place.  Hope this helps.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thank you for taking the time to explain @Mike Allen.  I have decided to obey the packet apart from one or two pioneers 😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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