@Finch. My daughter’s in St Austell, a suntrap any time of the year, her baskets and all her garden has been planted up for over 3 weeks now, just around Easter I think. here it’s still frosty and very cold nights, if your down on the South Cornish coast you’d get away with it, but I would chance it anywhere else.
Oh wow. Good for her. The last frost was more recent than Easter here. But I think that's unusual. The bit of coast I'm on is a terrible wind tunnel and I still haven't found sound info on the effect of cold winds on stress, shock, growth... and does a cold wind affect the temperature felt by the plant or is the plant only affected by air temperature regardless of wind temperature? If they are anything like me wind temperature makes all the difference 😁
I would hold on for a bit Finch, its always windy here even at the best of times so I wait until I have bigger plants that can withstand those conditions , another advantage is that being bigger they can withstand slug damage. Land height makes a difference as well, don’t know if you’re up on the cliffs, we are 960’ above sea level so always a couple of degrees lower.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Yes I will wait. Thank you. I'm a mile it two inland but no where is very high in Cornwall. I've repotted them instead as they were too big for their pots (autumn cuttings) but that won't help the lack of space 😁 But it makes me feel like I've done some gardening!
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I have lots of seedlings cluttering up our porch, but I'm not chancing planting them out until early June.
Land height makes a difference as well, don’t know if you’re up on the cliffs, we are 960’ above sea level so always a couple of degrees lower.
I've repotted them instead as they were too big for their pots (autumn cuttings) but that won't help the lack of space 😁 But it makes me feel like I've done some gardening!