All planted
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I had dug a trench and [well rotted] manured it. That meant that planting depth wasn't going to be quite as deep as I wanted - I wanted to allow finished level, once I had pushed the earth back, to be a couple of inches lower than top-of-pot depth.
So I scraped some manure sideways at each planting station, placed a double-handful of sharp sand and made a bit of a mound, and then knocked the plant out of the pot and separated out its roots. (It worked out at about 1kg of sand / plant, a 20kg bag did 20 plants)
When I potted up last year I used a mixture of 1L, 1.5L and 2L pots that I had lying around ... long-story-short if I was doing it again I would only use 2L pots ...
The fat roots had gone straight to the outside of the pot and then ground around the outside of the rootball. These were easy to separate out in the 2L pots, but in the 1L I had to stick my thumbs into the middle of the bottom and pull hard to get the root ball separated enough to spread out, and even then the dis-entangled roots didn't "stick out" very far. However, it didn't feel like i was breaking any "fat roots", only the small feeing roots, so fingers-crossed.
This reduced the height of the root ball to only a couple of inches - i.e. most of it was transformed from rootball into saucer-shaped flattened roots
I pull back the earth on either side of the row - i.e. leaving the plants in a V about 4" deep, so I have earth to earth up with next Winter, and any watering / rain will be run down to the plants this Summer
Only other thing was something has already had a nibble at the very tips of a lot of the spears - so I have covered the lot with debris netting for now - well, until the Brassica beds is planted and needs it!