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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Grubbypaws on April 21, 2021, 12:01

Title: Growing plug plants
Post by: Grubbypaws on April 21, 2021, 12:01

I have a new mini greenhouse and am experimenting on starting off my veg as plug plants under glass. Pak Choi and turnip Oasis have been successfully grown and planted out in my raised beds and are looking good.

I am now experimenting with coriander, parsley, oriental salad leaves and beetroot. Somewhere on the forum I seem to remember someone saying that parsley doesnt transplant well.

Question: are there plants that this technique of growing doesnt work for?

Title: Re: Growing plug plants
Post by: mumofstig on April 21, 2021, 12:54

carrots and parsnips don't do well from plugs. As soon as their roots touch the bottom of the module they fork  :(

Title: Re: Growing plug plants
Post by: Goosegirl on April 23, 2021, 17:16

I seem to think that parsley has a tap root so may not transplant well if it's quite well-established unlike those from the supermarkets which haven't got to that stage.

Title: Re: Growing plug plants
Post by: mumofstig on April 23, 2021, 17:31

Ordinary Parsley transplants well, because it really doesn't matter if it's roots fork, as we grow it for its leaves. Obviously doesn't work well for Hamburg parsley the one grown for its root :)