[Garden] Hardening off transplants

[Angela McNeill]

Hi Stephanie

I can do the hardening off the first set of seedlings.  Let me know when I 
should come and pick them up.  Tuesday so far I am pretty open, however may 
have a funeral to attend out of town.  I have some times during the day I 
could pick them up.  I will send you my home phone number directly.

Thanks Angela

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <s3lyons at scimail.uwaterloo.ca>
To: <garden at lists.wpirg.org>
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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