Ok, but just to play devil's advocate...
But isn’t it up to the individual what they do? Isn’t part of the fun of gardening/growing experimenting and finding out what works for you?
What I thought was good about this site was that people shared ideas for what works, or doesn’t work
for them, and then people can either try it or indeed ignore the advice they’ve been given? There are people on the site who may have been there and done it all and found what works for them, but some of us haven’t (this is only my 3rd year growing and I’m now adjusting from being in the midlands to further north with a totally different soil type so what may have worked before won't here!). For some people it may be pure ignorance that they are sowing now – for others, like myself, its called experimenting!
For example, I read on another site that its good to start off Aubergines early, as from this chaps opinion they need as longer growing period as possible. I knew some people on this site would disagree, but I tried anyway. For me, it hasn’t worked, only a few seeds have germinated and those that have look, erm, ill (but again I have plenty more seeds, so for me its not a bother I’ll just sow some more later) but I wanted to give it a go. Why? Because its fun! It was his opinion, for him it works, for me it didn’t – now I know for myself!
If I have ‘tales of woe’, then they will me my tales of woe, my experiences that I have learnt from, not just someone else telling me what I’m doing is wrong.
There is no denying that
planting out things now as the thread at the top seems to be suggesting, is ridiculous, even I can see that – there is no way I would consider planting my spuds yet, we had frost everywhere this morning and the ground is rock hard!
But I may have missed those current threads where people are saying they are off to plant out their cabbages, potatoes etc. And I'm also not going to suggest that when it has warmed up a bit I'm not going to experiment there either - as I have tubs to grow my potatoes in, I'm going to start some of my earlies off earlier than others and bring the tub in at night. As an experiment!
What as far as I can tell people have been talking about is Chillis, aubergines, tomatoes etc indoors. And in this case, if you have the seed, the space and the time what is the harm in having a go and finding things out for yourself? I’m enjoying both the successes and the losses because I’m learning new things through experiencing them.
But that’s just my opinion – I fully expect and accept other people will disagree!
And I fully acknowledge that part of growing stuff for me is the process, I am doing it because I enjoy it, not as a way to be self sufficient as I know others are.