can i plant my salad leaves and herbs out now ??

janiebaby29

I am using a strawberry planter to house some herbs and salad leaves in the top bit , they will be seeds , its outside atm

Farway

If seeds it may be a bit too chilly to germinate just yet. I am in Hampshire and my self sown nasturtiums are only just beginning to show

I think I would sow indoors and plant out in May, certainly too cold for salad leaves outside I reckon, depends on herbs, mint OK, basil no

janiebaby29

thank you , i will hold off till mid may then plant them outside !!

theGrinch

Im in London, I sowed salad leaves straight into outdoor pots in mid march. covered them for a few weeks, but they ahve bene uncovered for 2 weeks now. doing fine.

morg_monster

ditto theGrinch, but I'm a little out of london, and I didn't cover them. the rocket was a bit slow to germinate but is coming along nicely. my salad bowl lettuce is doing very well.

xxvickixx

Phew, I planted my salad seedlings out a few days ago, I'm in the south too and it's been so warm that I can't imagine it's too cold.

Lotus-eater

It's not too cold to sow or plant salad leaves outside, maybe if you are in Scotland you may have a bit of trouble germinating seeds, but the rest of us should be fine. I germinated salad seeds in March in the ground.

Best thing to do, is to sow your seeds in modules or seed trays inside, as soon as they've germinated, move the trays outside (salads don't like it too hot), pick a shadyish area, thin to one per module, or 2 or 3 inches apart, keep watered and protected from slugs, when they are big enough to handle, move them to their new home on a coolish day and water in well.

But as the Grinch amd Morgmonster says, you cam sow directly where you want them to be and you don't need to cover them, but the module method will enable you to protect them a bit easier from slugs and to germinate them quicker.

Can we please clear up something, you "sow" seeds and you "plant" plants, even seedlings. You don't plant seeds, if you say you are planting and you mean sowing, you may get the wrong advice.

RHYSDAD

My salad mix went in second week of March outside and is doing great! Radish too is coming on a treat!!

skelly01

I am in Scotland and always wait until about the second week in May (apart from my potatoes which are in last week) before planting all my veggie seeds. I never have any problems if I wait until then.

MORPH3US

RHYSDAD wrote: »

My salad mix went in second week of March outside and is doing great! Radish too is coming on a treat!!

Are they not vulnerable to frost having planted them out so early?