seedlings are falling over - help!

Lotus-eater

Move them into another pot. I find I get this when the seedlings are too close together. But then I always get it with lettuce, any sown outside are fine and you should have been sowing them out there for a while now. You can plant the lettuce seedlings outside and they will be fine, just have very weak stems, but they will grow OK, I once won a lettuce 1st prize at a show with two grown like this, I just cut off the horrible stems before showing them

positivelymummy

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Move them into another pot. I find I get this when the seedlings are too close together. But then I always get it with lettuce, any sown outside are fine and you should have been sowing them out there for a while now. You can plant the lettuce seedlings outside and they will be fine, just have very weak stems, but they will grow OK, I once won a lettuce 1st prize at a show with two grown like this, I just cut off the horrible stems before showing them

wow you won lettuce at a show! well done:beer: ooh i've been watching that village show programme on UKTV gardens, where they enter stuff for shows etc. excellent stuff!

Gardening-girl_5

butterfly72 wrote: »

When you say 'pot them up' do you mean add compost to under their seed leaves or move them into another pot?:o

thanks

Here's how to !!!!! them out and pot up..but instead of using the seed trays that's shown on the link below.. i'd put them into 3inch pots to save on compost! I don't hardly use seed the open type seed trays, i prefer the cell ones like the ones shown on here to sow and start my seeds off and then just leave them until they have a few leaves on, then i pot them on. They are stronger this way and adapt easily to the 3 inch pots!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/propagation_pricking2.shtml