Next celery question....

[Trevor_D]

Following the advice of all you good folk, my celery is all ready to go.

I've pricked the plants into modules and have gradually been hardening them off. (If basking in 20C+ can be called "hardening".

The site is ready, with plenty of rotted horse-manure dug into it. I've top-dressed with spent potting compost and watered with Nemaslug.

So - when can I plant it out? The packet implies (rather than states) that it needs much the same weather conditions & timings as things like tomatoes, beans & courgettes. So do I wait a couple of weeks, or can I plant some now?

[Trevor_D]

[Georgie]

Hi Trevor.  I won't be planting mine out until the end of May, same time as other vunerable plants.  Then again if you have got cloches they will be fine going out now. 

G x

[okra]

Agree with Georgie, I am sure we will yet get a late frost

[tim]

Being nosey, Trevor - why do you prick out into modules rather than sowing straight into them?

[Trevor_D]

Many thanks. I think I'll leave them be for a bit.

Tim, that's my usual way with any small seeds - lettuce, most annual flowers & stuff. I use a small (half or quarter size) seed tray, sow them broadcast & pop them in the propagator. Then I prick them into modules (usually the 24s).

You mean you've got a method which saves hours of pricking out?!?