Help - I can't seem to get it right!!

[LOTTYPOTTY]

I have raised from seed cauliflowers, red cabbage, spinach, beetroot and swiss chard. They all started off life in a warm conservatory and I was advised to move them to cooler conditions as I started to lose some of them to 'damping off'. I put them out into an unheated greenhouse after helping them to acclimatise gradually to their new conditions. I have kept an eye on all local weather forecasts religiously and the temperature has never gone below 5c. The caulis I lost completely and have resown more but the others seemed to recover and revive themselves. However, brown tips have now started to appear on the tips of the spinach, the red cabbage have started to wilt and the beetroot don't look much better.

Where am I going wrong?

[shirlthegirl43]

All those should be okay sown and left outdoors in a sheltered spot out of direct sun.

[King Carrot]

I would generally only grow those veg outside unless I was forcing them - If they start off outside they'll be hard as nails and low temperatures and wind won't bother them. If you do sow them in a greenhouse they really need to go out asap after they germinate or I find they grow too soft and weak to cope with any outside elements.

I am growing spring cabbage and calabrese in pots in a tunnel at the mo but some will be transplanted into the tunnel itself and the others will go outside and will then remain under fleece until they crop in May and June. The only reason I have them growing inside and outside under fleece is to hopefully make them crop faster.

There is still loads of time to start them all over again and as soon as they germinate get them outside the greenhouse during the day and leave them outside unless its frosty or any other extreme weather threatens, after a week or so leave them outside whatever and get them in the ground as soon as you can.

[VirginVegGrower]

All my cabbage, cauli, sprouts, broccoli, beetroot sown in modules and kept in greenhouse. Appear to be fine.

[zazen999]

Ditto - kept in unheated greenhouse and planted some out into final position under netting today.

[Two_Sheds]

Brown tips is a sign of over-watering. Do you plead guilty?