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Plug Plants
I have bought some plug plants commercially and they arrived today (brilliant plants) I have them snug in trays in my tiny plastic greenhouses, at the weekend I will start to pot them up to 9cm but I would love opinions as to useful ways of keeping them frost free as I will never have room for the lot some will have to be sitting in the garden,Fleece is an option.
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Hardy ones can go out in the plastic greenhouses. Anything semi-hardy or delicate would be better off indoors for a few more weeks at the very least.
That's the problem no indoor space .
Ah, right. In that case then, I guess the hardiest will have to go in a sheltered sunny spot of the garden and the rest will go in the greenhouse. Do what you can to keep them covered overnight whether it's fleece on sticks or bubblewrap or even straw. Just something to keep the dew and frost off the leaves.
These are my thoughts,I know this all early but we open our very tiny garden with the NGS last 2 Sunday's in June and really need to get thing going early,we have a large carport which I am thinking is too dark for the days but may well work at night with fleece.Thanks for the reply.
Try putting the pots in big clear plastic storage tubs - pop the lids off in the morning and cover them again at night. Maybe put a brick on top to stop the lids blowing away and pierce a few holes in the bottom so that they don't fill up with rain. Can stack and store the tubs for next year once it's warm enough.