If I’ve started things off in a seed tray then I will usually pot on into a small pot - the little size you get bedding in (7-8cm?). After that they go straight into the ground. If it’s a perennial I might pot on again if I feel it needs some more cosseting.
Last year, I didn’t get round to potting on my cosmos at all. I hadn’t any compost so they weren’t straight from seed tray into the ground, probably a couple weeks earlier than usual, and I’m not sure there was much difference to be honest. They romped away once in the garden.
Ive never potted on sweet peas, they just get started off in a loo roll or paper pot and then straight into the ground (I don’t start them off until end March, April)
I start my sunflowers, cucumbers and gherkins off in little 6cm pots or one of those seed tray with separate cells and as soon as a reasonable size straight into the ground.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I ha a clear out if some of those trays recently @didyw I kept some back, as they roughly fit my smallest pots so handy for moving stuff in and out of the greenhouse for hardening off. I always save any small pots bedding come in even if flimsy as they last a few years and are handy for potting on from seed trays or for bigger seeds like cucumbers etc
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
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Ive never potted on sweet peas, they just get started off in a loo roll or paper pot and then straight into the ground (I don’t start them off until end March, April)
I start my sunflowers, cucumbers and gherkins off in little 6cm pots or one of those seed tray with separate cells and as soon as a reasonable size straight into the ground.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham