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Seedling glut

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I sowed a load of old beetroot and mixed salad leaves. I didn't expect much but most have germinated. They've been pricked out and put in small pots but there's more than I'd ever use.
Enough have been put in the ground and are doing well
What should I do?
In London. Keen but lazy.

Seedling glut 15 votes

Keep a few for baby leaf salad and compost the spares
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micearguers 1 vote
Leave them outside the front for passing gardeners
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Auntiemand[Deleted User]Mary370BenCottoSuesynJulia1983amancalledgeorgeSafflowerHouseFinchFlyDragoncelcius_kkwSkylarksPurpleRoseFinnish_Fennel 14 votes
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  • Auntie VAuntie V Posts: 20
    If your neighbours/ passers by would appreciate them, I’d do that. Maybe keep a few for baby leaves. Unfortunately, where I live not many are interested in cultivating so it would be a waste  :/. Big sign, free to a good home! That’s what I would do
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2020
    That's my inclination @Auntie V but what with the isolation thing, I wondered if it was the right thing to do. I suppose it's not an awful lot different to buying stuff at the garden centre. Maybe safer 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Have to be honest, I would eat them. Put them out around here, someone would stop and take the lot, then try to sell them on Ebay.

    It is what I do with leftover seeds in the winter, pop them in a seed tray in the propagator, micro veg, much sought after and expensive produce.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's another option but they're taking up a lot of space albeit outside
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    How many are we talking, hundreds? If less, just plant them densely together, they will be fine that way for cut and come again salad leaves.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2020
    No about 20 or so. Maybe I should squash them back into one container😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Leave them outside the front for passing gardeners
    I intend to put my leftover veg plants on the front garden wall for any passers by to pick...a nice little surprise for somebody. We all need a bit of cheering nowadays. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Leave them outside the front for passing gardeners
    Keep a few for baby leaf salad and leave the rest outside. 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Good gardening neighbours and walkers will appreciate these seedlings.  It also makes people believe in people - that the good things in life are free.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I had plenty of tomato plants to spare, so I potted them all into yogurt pots and left them outside with a notice "Free but donations to local hospice invited."  And put an announcement on Nextdoor.  So far the hospice is £7.80 to the good.
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