"Jake" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:46:46 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

After we'd planted them, I said to my brother "you've hardened them off a
bit by having them out in the day for a while, haven't you?"

For years, my hardening-off routine is to move half the plants out
onto the lawn one morning and back in in the evening. The other half
go out the next day. As I'm growing 2-3,000 plants this operation
takes about an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. It's
enough.

It's more of an organisational thing as I try to get all the begonias
together in one place.

Never had any problems.

Cheers, Jake

These haven't been hardened off at all, straight out of the greenhouse into
the ground. I'd assumed (wrongly) that he'd have done the same as you do and
only thought to ask after we'd planted them. Too late by then.
I will find out soon whether hardening courgettes off is necessary..

Tina