On Feb 18, 7:06*pm, Dave Hill wrote:
On Feb 18, 4:32*pm, harry wrote:

She told me that root crops couldn't be transplanted, they could only
be thinned.
She lied.

In her days you grew all root crops from the start in the open ground,
and they do not transplant at all well.
It's different if you start them in modules.
Times change and so does knowledge.
I think you owe your Granny an apology.
David @ the wet end of Swansea Bat


For an experiment, I transplanted my thinnings last year. (Beetroot)
They did as well as the others. I only watered them once too. They
were at the two seed leaf stage.