What can i put out ??

Hello all

I bought some plug plants ( reduced) and now I'm not sure they can go out . They are bedding plant's plus pea's caulis, mixed salad leaf . Trouble being as it's so cold will they grow ? I am putting them in a raised bed , mainly compost

 

The picture is the bottom of my garden. It needs a huge amount of work doing

 

Assuming they've been hardened off already, i'd keep them somewhere cool but sheltered, the cold wind won't do them any favours.

 

Thanks . Sadly all but 6 have since ' withered' away.. I am very tempted to buy a little plastic greenhouse to put any future plants in until it warms up

 

its so tempting to plant them out isn't it? i'd be afraid though until it gets a good bit milder. i was so tempted in Woodies yesterday by all their lovely colourful bedding plants but by some miracle i managed to control myself lol...well bar a few choice buys which will just have to sit in the window of the potting shed until the weather warms up

 

"What can I put out??" personally I'd put out a large warning sign to anybody that has bought bedding plants etc that have been raised under cover to keep their purchase inside until things warm up CONSIDERABLY! I used to live very close to numerous garden centres. Each early Spring there would be crowds of people rushing to buy their summer stock. Home they went with boot loads only to return a couple of weeks later to repeat the process, their 1st purchases having "bought it" due to going from about 65 oc to -3oc within days. Lots of unhappy faces bar....... the owners of the garden centres!