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Transplanting Tips - From Indoors to Outdoors
| Transplanting
Tips - From Indoors to Outdoors |
| By Carol Yaw |
Transplant shock can set your young plants back considerably. To avoid this,
pick a sunny afternoon to put your plants outside and gradually expose them
to the cooler temperatures over a period of two weeks or so. Move them from
your greenhouse to a cold frame, seed house, cloche, under a row cover,
or to a protected outdoor area. Uncover them a little more each day, protecting
them again each night from the cold until they gradually adapt.
An application of SeaGrow or SuperThrive (see Fertilizers)
will reduce transplant shock further and make your starts stronger when
transplanting. Also be sure to protect your tender plants from slugs and
insects (see Pest Control).
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