On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:36:36 +0100, "Wally"
wrote:

I have been having a discussion with other allotment holders,
I have been pressing on and sowing seeds but others have
told me that it is too early as we could get more frost more snow
and it's generally too cold.
My argument is when plants grow naturally they will drop there
seeds in the Autumn and they will lay on/in the ground all Winter
without coming to any harm and start to grow in the Spring.
So, does it really matter if I plant seeds and a bit of frost gets to them ?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Wally



In nature if all the seeds germinated together in one go and they got
frosted the plant would die out. So nature ensures seeds germinate
more slowly at colder conditions - you'd call it eratic but for a
plant it's just self preservation.
There are somethings that don't mind a bit of cold, others will be
wasted.
One allotmenter told me everyone else ploughed on ahead but when it
got to summer hers all caught up with theirs.

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