[Becci W]

Thanks for all your help! Will donate some of my cauli plants to the people giving me a hand to dismantle and re-site my new GREENHOUSE!!!

[Yorkie]

Thanks for all your help! Will donate some of my cauli plants to the people giving me a hand to dismantle and re-site my new GREENHOUSE!!!

Just a word of caution.  It's a lovely idea, but make absolutely certain that you have no clubroot on your plot, and that you've used sterile compost rather than old compost or soil - or you run the risk of transferring club root to their plots, which I'm sure you (and they) wouldn't want!

[Becci W]

Thanks for the caution! Wouldn't want to do that. I have used my fresh compost (humax) bought from the allotment shop. This should be ok shouldn't it?

[Yorkie]

That sounds fine, although if you do have clubroot then I would be very careful about transferring it just through boots / walking mud across.  Don't let them walk on your plot and then walk onto theirs - just basic hygiene for anyone, really.

[Salmo]

It works the other way round as well.

Be wary of accepting plants from others unless you are sure they do not get club root. That applies to other plants besides brassicas as it is carried in the soil.

[Rangerkris]

I took plants from the bloke next door three years ago not knowing about Club root and had no worries at all, just ask if you not sure don't let it put you off of swapping plants around the site.

[rhysdad]

I'm growing Snowball A from Suttons, i sowed two seeds per root trainer cell and so have 8 seedlings merrily growing away. Should i wait until true leaves to pot them on then and when is then a good time to get them in the ground?

[DD.]

I pot them on at the true leaf stage and stick them out when they are about 6"-8" tall.

[Kristen]

I pot them on at the true leaf stage and stick them out when they are about 6"-8" tall.

Ermmm ... if they are in root trainers do they need potting on? or can they not just be grown in those until they are planted out? (removing the weaker of the two plants once they have started to grow a bit - although in 99% of cases I find that the choices are identical, so murder either in that instance!)

[DD.]

Too early in the morning - read through "root trainers" and went into "module" mode. However, personally I'd prefer a bigger root ball than obtained with a root trainer because of my club root problem.

[Paul Plots]

Too early in the morning - read through "root trainers" and went into "module" mode. However, personally I'd prefer a bigger root ball than obtained with a root trainer because of my club root problem.

Rhubarb in the plantng whole.... and I don't think it works either. 

[DD.]

No it doesn't work on the hole. (Check your spelling, Paul, 5/10 see me after school).

[Paul Plots]

No it doesn't work on the hole. (Check your spelling, Paul, 5/10 see me after school).

Rude words!!!

                                        (I had a spare wubbleyou!!)