Chris celebrates the arrival of longer days and (slightly) warmer nights by beginning the slow process of acclimatising his young plants to outdoor conditions.
May arrives and the trees are breaking leaf on the New River canal in my little part of North London. The vibrancy of this green flush never fails to disappoint and this year our trees are abundant in flowers, an often-overlooked quality of our deciduous trees.
With the days getting longer, my one-time seedlings are now becoming small juvenile plants and as the temperature steadily rises it’s time for me to prepare them for their full-time outdoor life. It’s time to ‘harden off’ tender plants such as tomato and tagete, which I’ve so lovingly raised from seed in propagators and the comfort of my home.
You can read Chris’s article in full at https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/chris-collins-on-hardening-off-your-plants
