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Quick cosmos question

EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
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A question for anyone with more knowledge than me...... when potting on my cosmos can I plant them up to their first (seedling) leaves?

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Quick answer, yes.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Yes  :)
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Thanks both, I've no doubt I would have been asking the same question in a couple of weeks as I'm growing them for the first time this year. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    Thank-you. Potting on tomatoes now so wanted to do these too.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd sow a few more now if you have any left because they look a bit leggy. The increased light this time of year will help.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Sowing mine this weekend. They grow so quickly. 
  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    B3 said:
    I'd sow a few more now if you have any left because they look a bit leggy. The increased light this time of year will help.
    I have others started outside in the coldframe, I did these (and a few others) indoors as back up. Same story every year, you plant a few 'spare' of everything just in case, then when they all grow you can't throw any away and have to find spots for all the extras.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You can do the same with your toms, if you didn't know that already. It helps them get a good, sturdy root system   :)

    "Same story every year, you plant a few 'spare' of everything just in case, then when they all grow you can't throw any away"
    ..and if you'd only sown three seeds, you'd  have got one, or none at all ! Sod's Law eh?  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • WoottieWoottie Posts: 10
    yes but they never do as well as ones which have not gone leggy.  
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I haven't even sown cosmos yet. They germinate and grow so quickly, that I wait until May to sow to avoid leggy seedlings and find space for them at the same time as trying to avoid them getting leggy.
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