Anniekay
Well-known member
- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
I watched a video where this guy puts his seedlings out to harden off and leaves them all day as long as the temps are 50f or above, and in the low 70's for the high, AND, it is going to be overcast and not too breezy, for three days in a row. He says if it will be sunny one of those days he puts them in morning sun/ afternoon shade that day. He says he works so he can't run them in and out for an hour or two or more every day to harden them off and that he's been doing this for 5 years without any issues.
I have also put mine out for day one in morning sun, out of strong wind, well watered and done that two days in a row, then extended that to some strong sun the third day, then planted them in my raised beds with a cushion of straw or hay piled up around them to keep them from rocking too much in the wind.
I think I'm just too impatient, (not to mention lazy!!)
and, I have a big table full of them to move and can't see myself running in and out, up and down steps, with tray after tray, day after day !!
How do you do it.?
I have also put mine out for day one in morning sun, out of strong wind, well watered and done that two days in a row, then extended that to some strong sun the third day, then planted them in my raised beds with a cushion of straw or hay piled up around them to keep them from rocking too much in the wind.
I think I'm just too impatient, (not to mention lazy!!)

How do you do it.?