Root planting.

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I bought some plants from Farmer Gracey thanks to a tip from here. They are roots and in the instructions it says to start hem in pots first but I don't have enough pots. Can I bung them in the ground and hope for the best?!

Depends on the plant but probably yes, depending on weather and slugs and water availability

You can do, but they’ll be more difficult to protect from pests. Can you not improvise pots? Depending on size, empty yogurt pots, cut down milk cartons both with a hole in the bottom, even plastic bags with a hole and filled with soil

You only need cheap black plastic pots for growing them on, worth asking on your local Facebook page if anyone has any to give away.

Excellent!!

I'll gather up a load of empty small plastic ones and will use those. In my head I was thinking pots = proper decorative ones!

I've just had some bare root salvias from farmer Gracy and have stuck them in small pots. The compost they came with was almost enough to pot them. I'm feeling impatient and desperate to get them into the ground near my roses but they aren't even close to established. Being nosey, what did you buy?

Salvias and rudbeckia. And a hosta and some lily of the valley. I've soaked them and planted some in the ground and some in pots.