[Garden] gearing up for transplanting

[Angela McNeill]

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From: <s3lyons at scimail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:22 AM
Subject: [Garden] gearing up for transplanting


> Hello again gardeners,
> 
> I just chatted with Lynn (the biology greenhouse manager) and she  
> brought up some good suggestions for our planting strategy. She  
> suggested that we consider two planting dates-one for the frost  
> resistent/tolerant plants and one for the tender crops.  We separated  
> out the flats for the two groups.  The frost tolerent crops can be put  
> out by the 20th.  These plants are at an excellent transplant height  
> and the longer we wait with these plants the harder the transplant  
> will be on them.  These plants include leeks, cabbage, kale, brussel  
> sprouts, califlour, and broccoli.   There is only four flats that are  
> in this first group.  ***We need to harden up these plants-could  
> someone keep these plants at their house for next week befor planting?  
>  In case you don't know what the effort that is required in hardening  
> the stems....the plants need to be put outside during the day and  
> until the late evening they need to be put inside for the night.
> 
> The second group-the tender crops-includes squash, cucumbers,  
> eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, basil, merigold, and zuccini can be  
> planted later but the plants are getting pretty large.  Lynn suggests  
> that we also plant seeds for the squash, cucs and zucs when we do the  
> transplanting.
> 
> OK so as for greenhouse access....this really isn't going to much of  
> an issue at all.  Yes Lynn is going on holidays but the greenhouse is  
> still open all day until 3.  When we want the plants to move them to  
> where we can harden them just let me know in advance.  Jenn and I (and  
> any of the other Biology students) can arrange a location for transfer  
> of the flats to office space until they are able to be transfered that  
> night.
> 
> In the future we should consider doing the planting closer to the  
> transplant date....transplanting is hard on a plant esp when they are  
> larger.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steph
> 
> 
> 
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