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Alex, IN

Ok, I started my seeds a week ago, they are up and ready to go in the ground... the problem is we have had over 5 inches of rain in the last week!! I don't know if I should go ahead and plant them in the ground(My planting sites have already been treated with my fungicides) or if I should put them in larger pots and keep them in the greenhouse longer? Any thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Mikkal

5/1/2009 8:57:26 PM

Decatur, IL

I would assume that the soil in your planting areas is nothing but muck. If that's the case, I'd transplant them into larger pots. It's still plenty early. I would imagine that the fungicide (Subdue?) would still have enough residual to be effective, or apply some more if you have enough.

5/1/2009 9:07:59 PM

Buffalo, New York

not sure about your planting sites but i have had my hoops up for almost a week now and the inside doesnt get very wet so if they covered, i dont think it would be a bad idea to put them out.

5/1/2009 11:16:03 PM

Valley Falls, Kansas

by no means am I an experianced grower, but last year I had the same problem so I got a few bags of organic miracle grow garden soil and filled the holes with it then transplanted and all the transplants did pretty good, I also did this with my asparagas crowns last year and all the crowns came up good this year

5/2/2009 12:11:28 AM

Sequim, WA

Put your hoop houses up, let the soil under them dry for a couple days and get them in the ground. You just don't want the soil to run like pudding back into the hole you dug for the plants. If I waited for the soil to dry out before planting I wouldn't have anthing in the patch until halfway through July.

5/2/2009 2:02:04 AM

Alex, IN

No hoop houses here, just to much rain!! LOL Thanks for the answers.

Mikkal

5/2/2009 7:57:19 AM

Long Island,New York

I amazes me every year why people prone to wet spring weather don't put up hoops or put down plastic in the 5x5 planting areas as a backup plan......

5/2/2009 9:08:50 AM