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Sprout plants tips please...

SunshinefieldsSunshinefields Posts: 22
in Fruit & veg
Hello all. Just after some advice with our sprout plants? This is the best we've ever had the plants look so I was hoping to ask, do they look alright? What should I be doing with them? For instance should I be taking some of the lower leaves off (saw someone on insta do it) 
Any tricks for successful sprouts!? Thank you.

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  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    I'm no expert but, when something looks as healthy as that, I'd plant them straight out to their final position, always protecting them from slugs.
  • SunshinefieldsSunshinefields Posts: 22
    Thanks @nick615
    They kinda are in their final position, probably should have a little more space between them but hey ho, it's the space we've got. 
    I'm out there every evening on slug watch haha

  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    edited June 2021
    One thing that I know about sprouts is that they must be planted in the soil very firmly 1) it stops wind rock, 2) if they aren't the sprouts don't form tight little balls but are loose and leafy, your plants look perfectly healthy but firm them in as hard as you can, oh! and remove the bottom leaves when they turn yellow, and watch out for aphids. Just had another thought they do need a couple of foot between plants as they grow quite big.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You need to tread them in as firm  as possible. I would take some out of those boxes and just leave 2, maybe 3 at a push,  at least you will get a couple of good plants if you can climb in and tread down. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • SunshinefieldsSunshinefields Posts: 22
    Happy days great advice @barry island and @lyn thank you very much, got torrential weather today if it clears up I'll be out to tread them in as firm as my boot can possibly manage and I'll transfer a couple to somewhere else on the patch. 
    I'm ridiculously excited that these look nice and healthy as we've never really managed to get any sprouts to grow before! 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    If you can't firm them in so they're really solid i, or if they're in an exposed or windy spot, t's worth putting in a bamboo cane for each, and tieing them in as they grow, so that they don't wave about in the wind.  It really makes a difference as to how good the sprouts will be this winter  :)

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





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