Pak Choi & Spinach

Hi All,

Sorry, I'm a newbie and this is probably a stupid question - but I've sown some Pak Choi and Spinach seeds recently and I was just wondering if it is safe to plant them out on the plot, or if I need to keep them indoors?

The Pak Choi seedlings are doing really well - about 3 inches high and loving their spot on my conservatory window!  The Spinach seeds are just starting to poke their heads through the compost.

Both plants do well in cool weather, but Pak Choi (like all the other brassicas) doens't like having its roots disturbed, so be careful with the transplanting.

I'd be very careful doing that. They want a bit of hardening off first to strengthen them.

Both plants do well in cool weather, but Pak Choi (like all the other brassicas) doens't like having its roots disturbed, so be careful with the transplanting.

I thought brassicas quite liked a bit of root disturbance?  Certainly my broccoli seedlings didn't mind being left on the grass for an afternoon!

My grandfather just used to pull brassicas out of the seed bed before transplanting them. Having said that, I wouldn't advise it with these seedlings though!

My experience is that the pak choi I sowed directly grew as fast as a weed, and the ones I transplanted stopped growing and are still smaller than the ones I left in the tray (both of them were always outside and the soil is the same).