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PommesPommes Posts: 6
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Should I soak the seeds overnight, before sowing them in open ground?

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  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Never seen the need they generally germinate pretty easily.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • PommesPommes Posts: 6
    Thank you. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If you're sowing them outside, they'll need protection from frosts and cool temperatures until mid to late May depending on where you are.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I soak overnight before sowing in modules before sowing indoors.  I don't plant them out until early June ... the leaves will turn white and they will stop growing if exposed to temps less than the low teens.  

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





  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I too soak overnight and wouldn’t risk planting out until any chance of frost is over! Been caught out before that way but I do find they germinate well and grow quickly. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I sow mine when I sow my runner beans ... in about a week's time.  

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I don't sow mine until May, to go outside in mid June. Of all the tender seeds / tubers I grow, I find them to be the most temperature dependant. 
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  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Perhaps then I’m just lucky they seem to love. Life in a Parisian suburb and certainly don’t need pampering here.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I suspect a sheltered Parisian suburb is generally a lot warmer than most of the UK in April and May.   Certainly never put mine outside in the Belgian garden before mid May and then in a sunny, sheltered spot.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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