Seedlings question

[Alicay]

First attempt at growing things from seed! These are my baby salad leaves. Back of packet says I plant them outside after the risk of frost has passed. Is it OK to leave them like this until then? Do they need thinning out?

You can leave them to get a bit bigger. I wouldn't think them out. Put them in bigger pots when they have grown. Well done for your first attempt. Hope you enjoy your salad.

thanks for that. Will leave them a bit longer. Just planted radishes/tomato seeds. It's addictive!

@Alicay Do you like courgettes? They are so easy to grow and the flowers are pretty. Just watch out for slugs and snails when you plant your veg outside!

No room for courgettes,
sadly. Renting and can't touch the garden, so just using containers for everything.

You could do a courgette plant in a bucket. I planted some seeds on Monday and they’re big already!

Landlady has left a few big containers, so I could definitely give this a go. Did you start it off inside?

I’m also in rental and grow courgettes (and cucumbers) in large deep pots. I also keep my salads in pots, just pot them on into bigger pots or long trays in you have them.

Yes started off inside kitchen.

On it!

@Alicay yes start them off indoors, on a sunny windowsill if possible. I grew courgettes in a windowbox when I lived in a flat but a big pot would be better. I don't put them out until they're quite big as the snails and slugs eat them when they are small but once the plant grows it gets a bit prickly so they tend to leave them alone

You can also do potatoes in buckets. Just put an old sprouting on in half. Bucket of soil and then as the stalks appear put more soil in to earth them up

Thanks Crows. Marsaline, did that last year - very satisfying.