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Thursday 21 February 2013
Why In February ??
Why In February ??
Posted on 7:19pm Thursday 21st Feb 2013
One of my biggest bug bares over the years has been young plants early in the year the relentless earliness and rise of places doing it in February it is utterly ridiculous and unless you have a heated greenhouse a complete waste of money for the customer.
For goodness sake these plants can't go out into the garden until at least May when all risk of frost has gone what on earth do people do with them for three months like i say unless you have a heated greenhouse it is pointless. But even then you then have these plants clogging up your valuable growing space for three months when it is best served growing other things like food for the table there is plenty you can grow in a cold greenhouse for early veg.But it is a long time to have these other plants in there let alone your heating costs trying to keep them alive and if you don't have a heated greenhouse and are going to attempt growing these on indoors then they will end up a pretty sorry state if you have the heat indoors you certainly won't have the light and they will just stretch.
The likes of the big sheds are the worst they take these poor barely seedlings from a heated nursery and stick them at best in a freezing doorway like my local store had last weekend with Courgette seedlings (in Feb come on please we don't even sell them until April) if they were animals people would soon be reporting them to the RSPCA maybe we should have a Royal Society For The Protection Of Plants I hate going into these places in March and seeing all these dying seedlings that either have not been looked after, baked in a hot store or killed off by the frost in an outside plant area
The temp this week is barely above freezing and you have to wonder why they do this, is it so you all by them now loose them and then come back for more whatever it is a practice I do not agree with it is fine if they want to put easter eggs out before new year and christmas cards in August But plants in February what next buy a Tomato plant for Christmas instead of a poinsettia.
So far on my rounds recently I have seen all the usual tot pots of basket plants and now traditional bedding seedlings which will seriously struggle being kept for 3 months But now were getting tomato seedlings, pepper seedlings, Courgettes i have also seen last week, and numerous packs of brassicas some of which should not be planted until May/June for next winter
Here at Vegetable Plants Direct you will not find these items available at this time of year we only sell our plants during the seasons that they are supposed to be planted in and we always will, as seed breeders tell us various varieties can be sown earlier or later we offer them But only if they are recommended for use out of what you would call their normal season.
So please choose wisely when buying your plants the choice is yours But remember it is a long way to Summer !!
For goodness sake these plants can't go out into the garden until at least May when all risk of frost has gone what on earth do people do with them for three months like i say unless you have a heated greenhouse it is pointless. But even then you then have these plants clogging up your valuable growing space for three months when it is best served growing other things like food for the table there is plenty you can grow in a cold greenhouse for early veg.But it is a long time to have these other plants in there let alone your heating costs trying to keep them alive and if you don't have a heated greenhouse and are going to attempt growing these on indoors then they will end up a pretty sorry state if you have the heat indoors you certainly won't have the light and they will just stretch.
The likes of the big sheds are the worst they take these poor barely seedlings from a heated nursery and stick them at best in a freezing doorway like my local store had last weekend with Courgette seedlings (in Feb come on please we don't even sell them until April) if they were animals people would soon be reporting them to the RSPCA maybe we should have a Royal Society For The Protection Of Plants I hate going into these places in March and seeing all these dying seedlings that either have not been looked after, baked in a hot store or killed off by the frost in an outside plant area
The temp this week is barely above freezing and you have to wonder why they do this, is it so you all by them now loose them and then come back for more whatever it is a practice I do not agree with it is fine if they want to put easter eggs out before new year and christmas cards in August But plants in February what next buy a Tomato plant for Christmas instead of a poinsettia.
So far on my rounds recently I have seen all the usual tot pots of basket plants and now traditional bedding seedlings which will seriously struggle being kept for 3 months But now were getting tomato seedlings, pepper seedlings, Courgettes i have also seen last week, and numerous packs of brassicas some of which should not be planted until May/June for next winter
Here at Vegetable Plants Direct you will not find these items available at this time of year we only sell our plants during the seasons that they are supposed to be planted in and we always will, as seed breeders tell us various varieties can be sown earlier or later we offer them But only if they are recommended for use out of what you would call their normal season.
So please choose wisely when buying your plants the choice is yours But remember it is a long way to Summer !!
Saturday 16 February 2013
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