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Plugs - in or out of greenhouse for the winter or straight into the border

KmehKmeh Posts: 173
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I've got a lot of 7-10 cm plugs that my plan is to plant out into the borders next spring.  We are in far Nth Yorkshire on clay - so thought best to wait till spring so i don't lose any over the Winter in the heavy soil. 

Would you keep them in greenhouse or outside over winter? Obviously more prone to be eaten outside, but wonder whether it might make them hardier if outside. They are nepeta, wallflowers, erigeron , acquliega, anemones, astrantia, lupins and foxgloves. 

Thank you

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    personally I'd have the wallflowers and Foxgloves out and the rest in. The Foxgloves are biennial and may well flower, the Wallflowers are generally grown as biennials as well, unless you mean plants like 'Bowles Mauve' . Perennials are slower growing and I'd grow them on til spring


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    What did the sales company say?

    Why not try half and half?
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • KmehKmeh Posts: 173
    Just protect till risk of frost has passed, but say that for everything.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I'd do the same as @nutcutlet. 
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I've had a load of "young plants" delivered, that are barely rooted cuttings. I've peeled off the teabag effort and potted them on into 7cm pots. They will be inside for some time. The only thing fit to go into the garden were the bare root  wallflowers. All the primula seedlings and the erysimum cuttings need growing on .
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I would certainly keep them inside and pot them up if they begin to fill their pots. Once they are growing strongly and the risk of frost has passed they can be hardened off and planted outside.
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