How do you start your brassicas?

When you sow/start your brassicas do you:-

1, sow them in a seed tray and prick out into cells and plant out into the plot.

2, sow them straight into cells and plant out into the plot.

3, sow them in a cold frame then plant out into the plot.

4, sow into an outdoor seed bed then plant out into the plot.

5, In seed cells. One seed to a cell. Transplanted into 3" pots at the first true leaf stage. Hardened off & planted out when about 6" high. Initial temperature no more than a frost free greenhouse.

Just wondering  

Ooh Ooh, whats number 5?

I'll put it on the poll!

I think I hear an echo

 

Sow into seed modules.  Intend to plant out but resort to buying replacement when own seedlings die...

I've always sowed my seed in 2.5 inch pots (or thereabouts) and had some success and some failure.  I think I will try the sowing in individual cells this year to see if that makes any difference.

I also have clubroot so will have to see how I go on with that too ..... 

mmm, the poll only gives you one option to choose when in life, there may be different methods depending on what you are growing and when.  Most times I start off in pots then plant out later, some times in a seed bed, and sometimes even:

6. Sow direct in brassica bed and thin out if necessary

The title is how do you start your brassicas - so presuming this means everything else besides cabbages?     

Here is another brassica related question.

I have about six cabbages that I had started in pots in the summer last season, but I never got a chance to pop them into their final spot in the plot for overwintering.

I have them in a cold frame at the mo. Is there any point in planting them out now for this season - will they go to seed etc?

They are healthy enough.

To answer the question - I use cells, grow em on a while, pot them up for a while then in the cold frame.

Im fortunate on my plot at the moment and don't have clubroot so this is why i use method number 2.
I don't accept free plants off people either.

Me too