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| Alan Jones 2007-03-29, 1:25 pm |
| Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about
five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each
pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in
individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but
some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What
works best?
Alan Jones
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| Robert \(Plymouth\) 2007-03-29, 1:25 pm |
| Alan Jones <atj@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
: Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be
: about five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole
: contents of each pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants
: and put them in individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening
: to separate them, but some seed packets advise treating each pot of
: seedlings as a unit. What works best?
:
: Alan Jones
I sow mine, 3 to a 6" pot and plant it as it is but they take just as well
if you divide them carefully and water in well, as a friend did at the
allotments last year
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| On 29/3/07 17:47, in article f4SOh.5018$kF3.1536@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk,
"Alan Jones" <atj@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about
> five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each
> pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in
> individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but
> some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What
> works best?
>
We sell ours about 10 plants to a pot (a 'long tom') and suggest planting
them as a unit. Perhaps you could put them in the middle of a wigwam of
canes or, even better, pea sticks and let them find their way up with just
a little help from you. If you try to separate them, you might damage the
roots which will be quite entangled.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)
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| La Puce 2007-03-30, 9:25 am |
| On 29 Mar, 17:47, "Alan Jones" <a...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about
> five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each
> pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in
> individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but
> some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What
> works best?
I do 6/8 per pot, 3 pots and do 15 individual in carboard loo rolls.
That way I have 3 wigwam (2 lotty and 1 home), 3 centre piece and 5
individuals for the poles. Also I do more individuals in loo rolls
because my youngest likes doing them and we offer them to friends or
we do a bit of 'guerilla gardening' and dot them about in the streets.
I do sun flowers in them too and leeks because they get a good root
lenghth and I can just push them out of the bog roll without too much
disturbances. But most of all I recycle :o)
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| Alan Jones 2007-03-31, 1:25 pm |
| Sacha wrote:
> On 29/3/07 17:47, in article
> f4SOh.5018$kF3.1536@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk, "Alan Jones"
> <atj@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> We sell ours about 10 plants to a pot (a 'long tom') and suggest
> planting them as a unit. Perhaps you could put them in the middle of
> a wigwam of canes or, even better, pea sticks and let them find their
> way up with just a little help from you. If you try to separate
> them, you might damage the roots which will be quite entangled.
Many thanks to you and the other members who replied. I will put each potful
of seedlings in as a clump.
Alan Jones
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