Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: LivvyW on May 08, 2011, 16:54
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I have grown 3 yellow and 3 green courgette plants.
About 2 weeks ago i put one of each into the polytunnel raised bed with plenty of manure and watered well.
The rest are destined for outside after frost risk passed.
Both the ones in pots and the ones in soil have been covered with fleece everynight and it has not gone below 10 degrees.
Why have the ones in the pots continued to grow extremely well, nice and green. The ones in the soil have sulked and gone a bit yellow?
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Better nutrients in whaatever you've got in the pots, rather than in the manure you dug into to soil?
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Multi purpose in pots, would this be better than nice well rotted muck?
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Could be average soil temperatures, the real soil stays cooler for much longer than you think, inhibiting absorption of moisture, enzyme action in the seed/plant/root-cutting etc.
Doug
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Multi purpose in pots, would this be better than nice well rotted muck?
Possibly a more even spread of nutrients - and moisture.
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ambient soil temperature too cold, but as you mentioned in a poly tunnel this probably is not the case....
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Mine often sulk after planting out, as a matter of principle. I'd give them another couple of weeks.
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I planted two out (under a cloche) a couple of weeks ago. They did the same but have just started to take over the growth of the potted ones. I'm guessing yours will soon get over the move too. ;)
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Thanks everyone, i'll watch them and see what they do. I have plenty anyway.
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Ah the famous courgette sulk. It won't be for another week till I even consider introducing my seedlings to the outside world on the in and out trick. End of month earliest before they see the real world.
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Blimey, i'm glad i read this post, just put my tray of courgette plants I have grown from seed outside for their first night out! Will nip outside now and get them back in the greenhouse then.!
Cheers
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Just to clarify, all my courgettes are in the polytunnel. No plans to even start hardening off the outdoor ones for a couple of weeks yet!
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I think just the act of planting them in a different location will cause a bit of a shock to them. Different growing medium, different soil temperatures etc.