Hardening off seedlings

by plantgirl on May 16, 2008

In the All New Square Foot Gardening book it mentions “hardening off” indoor grown seedlings before transplanting them. I kind of ignored whatever this mysterious phrase meant in my haste to get my transplants in the ground while I could still bend … but I think I’m paying for it now. (See my post about the sad onions). Anyway, today I ran into a post at another blog explaining this hardening off process. So now I feel a bit stupid - but better to learn late than never!

Here are the two great articles I found:

Hardening Off Transplant Shortcuts

and

Hardening Off Seedlings

Now to go figure out when to start my next set of seedlings…

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1 Well Read Gardener 05.16.08 at 8:28 pm

Thanks for the comment on my blog. I’m not sure where I will get the netting for my strawberries, hopefully a local hardware store. I haven’t been really fast to get one on the plants since all the berries are now gone!

By the way, I’ve been reading your blog for months and I love it!

2 plantgirl 05.17.08 at 2:30 am

Thanks for visiting!

3 Jan 05.17.08 at 5:45 pm

I made a similar mistake the first year we planted seeds. I remembered reading on the seed packets that they needed to be hardened off outdoors before planting.

It was a beautiful sunny day, so I stuck them outside. They all died. When I checked the seed packets they said, harden off in the shade. Whoops. So don’t take it too hard (no pun intended), it’s all a learning curve.

Jan. (Mick’s missus, from oklahomegrownveg.

4 plantgirl 05.18.08 at 3:50 am

Jan-
Thanks - needed to hear I’m not the only one!

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