On 23 Jun 2003 04:29:30 -0700, (David) wrote:

I find the ones sown later directly into the soil do just as well as
the ones which have had a head start in pots, if not better. Sow a
couple of seeds at each station as the birds or slugs may get a few.

I lost all my indoor sown sweetcorn to damping off this year. I
bought another packet (of the earliest I could find in B&Q - Jubilee
F1 if I remember correctly) and sowed them direct, in pairs, about 3
weeks ago. They've all germinated so I now have to kill half of them
:-(.

A couple of years ago I started Sundance F1 in pots and when I planted
them out I filled the remaining space with directly sown seed of the
same variety. By harvest time I couldn't tell the difference.

I suspect that a lot depends on the timing and the weather, but
directly sown seed will not suffer the trauma of transplanting.

I am in Manchester.
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Stuart Baldwin
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