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Mini plug plants

eileen townsendeileen townsend Posts: 11
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Hello Gardeners. I have bought several mini plug plants all perennials, i have potted into small pots, when would be the best time to plant out. i have them in the greenhouse at the moment. Any advice welcome!

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Pot on gradually, when they are big enough to fill 5/6" pots, so a nice decent size, they can go out, probably late summer if they are tiny plugs now. They need a lot of care in the early months.

    If you put them out small, the slugs will have them, or the frosts that can be about through April and early May.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Circus clownCircus clown Posts: 74
    I was just about to ask the same thing. I already have about 25 seedling on the go- cucumbers ( got them going to early I think) tomatoes, sweet peas- you name it and the other day I got the 6 delphiniums I ordered- got those potted up in 3" pots yesterday using the video on GW as a guide. Now this morning I just got the 48 perennials I ordered a month ago. What am I to do with all of these pots of plants?

    My cat is having a time trying to eat them especially the sweet peas.

    My house is starting to look like a garden centre.

    I guess I have to wait for a month. Then with larger pots it will take even more room!
  • Circus clownCircus clown Posts: 74
    Can I put them out and cover them with fleece?
  • SparklesJDSparklesJD Posts: 344

    I would think you'd still need to harden them off first, CC, based on advice I've read on other threads.

    Would be a real shame for all that hard work to go to waste!

     

  • Circus clownCircus clown Posts: 74
    Yes, I agree about the hard work though with the plugs I haven't done so much until now. So, I guess for the time being there is nothing to be done except keep them in the house for a few weeks or more.

    Do things like cloches help or does that only work with hardening off as well like a cold frame?
  • TheHappyGrowerTheHappyGrower Posts: 181

    Well not yet as it`s very cold still & mostly wet

    but what you could do is help warm up the ground by placing black plastic bags

    spread where you are going to plant so it warms the soil slowly in time for when really good conditions arrive. image

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