When can I plant out the following seedlings/plants grown from seed? Don't want them to die

[Tinker]

I've acquired some of the following and want them to survive so don't want to plant then out too soon:

Sweet peas
Aquilegia (sp?)
Nastursiums
Saponaria

They've been hardening off for a while but am conscious of the ne'er cast a clout til May is out thing.

Thanks

hows this for a "blonde" question (i can say that cos i am a natural one!) but can you eat sweet peas? i didnt think you could, but have seen them growing in an obvious kitchen garden, what is the point of them? i think they are v pretty by the way i dont have room for them though. Cant help with your q but i would have thought it ok, ive just put out my beans and tomatos and the weather is crap.

I'm not an expert, but my sweet peas and nasturtiums have been out in my garden for about a month now and seem to be surviving OK. In fact the nasturtions are growing quite enormous!

Oh Tinker - think carefully about saponaria. Once its in it comes up everywhere. Underground runners. Perhaps sink a large pot in the ground to contain it?
I've been forgetting to put my young plants away in the sheds for the last few nights. They seem ok. Think I'll put them out soon. Don't reckon we'll get a frost now. (famous last words!)

I'm pretty sure you can't eat sweet peas. Planting them in a kitchen garden is just a "cottage garden" thing.

Thanks people. Jangly - think I like teh idea of it growing everywhere. The seedlings were my mum's, she died suddenly last Saturday, think I like the idea of always having a reminder here.

lucyellen, are you sure they were sweet peas?
Lots of peas and beans that you can eat have sweetpea-looking flowers - we've planted green beans to eat this year and they're meant to come out in gorgeous lilac flowers.

i didnt think you could eat them either, these belong to an old man who has a lovely but functional garden in his little bungalow - he is quite old, i wonder if he feels he must just keep plodding on - good for him.

Tinker - so sorry to hear about your mum, she would be chuffed to see you are nurturing her plants. My mum has a rose bush from her mother in her garden - 30years after she passed away, she always refers to it as "mums" rose.

I hope your Mum's plants flourish beautifully in your garden Tinker. I'm sure they will.

but to go back to the beginning, you can plant them all out right now. except for the nastursiums they are all hardy anyway, and aquilegia and saponaria are both perennials - they will die back this winter and grow again next spring

People put sweet peas in the veg garden because they look pretty, attract insects to pollinate the veg, put nitrogen back into the earth and as a 'crop' of cut flowers for the house. I am not sure if you can eat the peas but it's not goign to be worth it - they will taste yukky compared to the ones bred specifically for eating.

Thanks jangly and lucyellen.

Tinker. so sorry about your mum. To have reminders of her garden will be such a comfort in the future.
I have Violets from my grandmother's garden, that she was given by her grandmother, when she left home to move to Wales 'in service'. That's nearly a hundred years ago!