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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: bigsprouts on June 02, 2008, 17:33

Title: dead sprout plants is it too l8
Post by: bigsprouts on June 02, 2008, 17:33

hi all i went away for the weekend and when i returned the sun has murdered my sprout plants so was wondering is it too late to sow more varieties are rubine red feltham first and cascade please help as cannot live through the winter with out the sprouts

Title: dead sprout plants is it too l8
Post by: tweeky on June 02, 2008, 17:42

Beegly.

From planting to sprouting is around 32 weeks...so there ya go.

Mind you, they will be available in supermarkets.(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/sm001/sunglasses2.gif)

Title: dead sprout plants is it too l8
Post by: muntjac on June 03, 2008, 07:00

get em ina green house or heated some how and you will stil get some sprouts .when they come up to sprouts .take the tops out and eat em as greens ,only on some of them ,leave the rest to go on .put some lime down .and feed then every month with a little sulphate of ammonia  :wink:

Title: dead sprout plants is it too l8
Post by: gobs on June 03, 2008, 10:41

Rubine will crop in 4 months from planting, don't know the rest of them, but there are fast varieties used for earlies and successional planting, so no, go for it.