[Jamie Butterworth]

I have about 300 winter flowering pansies which are in my potting shed, they seem to have flopped a bit in the recent weather but will they survive and have i missed my opportunity to plant them out?

[Spana]

Mine out in the garden all flopped in the frost but as soon as they warm up a bit in the sunshine they perk up.

They are still selling them in the garden centers down here altho they have got them  outside. If yours are a bit soft from being in the shed perhaps you should leave planting them out until the spring or at least until its a bit warmer

300 you say, should be quite a show

[Jamie Butterworth]

Thanks spana, ill leave them till late winter/early spring then

Yep, i got 300, bought them 150 for a fiver

[thecakebaker]

i grow 1000's of them each year

[Jamie Butterworth]

i grow 1000's of them each year

 

Do you have a lot of greenhouses? When do you plant yours out? Do you start them from seed? Are they all for you or do you sell them?

Sorry for so many questions im just intrigued 

[thecakebaker]

I grow all mine from seed starting in November in plug trays. I use most of them and give some away to friends and i just have a very large greenhouse.

[Jamie Butterworth]

Sounds interesting, you must have one huge garden

[starry]

just the thought of planting out 300 of anything feels me with dread !! or do you have a secret method??

[thecakebaker]

I fill all my plug cell trays with very fine compost then water them all well and then I leave them some place warm for a day or two normally the greenhouse the of an evening I sit at the dining table and start putting the seed in to the sell spaces then I put them back in the greenhouse and leave them till they have germinated...... 

[Thrift]

just the thought of planting out 300 of anything feels me with dread !! or do you have a secret method??

Ditto 

[Yabba]

just the thought of planting out 300 of anything feels me with dread !! or do you have a secret method??

Yep, it's faster to use your hands than a trowel

¥

[Jamie Butterworth]

I find it quite thearputic When i did work experience with the council we planted out the formal gardens and we were doing thousands and thousands at a time, when you get going they do go in very quick

[Thrift]

Just realized the difference! Jamie is far too young for the backache, stiff knees etc.etc. 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Just realized the difference! Jamie is far too young for the backache, stiff knees etc.etc. 

[thecakebaker]

I have today potted on around 600 pansy plugs....