help i need space... what leave outside

[Sarico]

hi everyone..
i think this is the question that a lot of new GYOer ask... i runing out of space in my kitchen and everywhere else in the house and i bought a garden shelfs unit ( kind a 4 shelfs blowaway without a cover...) and i put my plants on there in the kitchen but now i have more seedling to transplant soon and i don't know what to do... i check the temperature in my blowaway and is never been under 4c so i was wondering can i put something in there over night? i know tomatoes, peppers and squash no way but can i leave french marigold, nasturtium, oregano, rosmary, thyme, mint and sage in there overnight?
all of them are in 3'' pots and are about 1 and half months old....
thanks for the help

[Two_Sheds]

You can with the frost hardies, but you need to harden them off first: put them outside during nice days (not in a hailstorm, like I did this week), back indoors at night. Do this for a week or 10 days, then they'll be OK outside all the time

French marigolds & nasturtium are not frost hardy, so they can't stay outside at night until after your last frost has passed

[VirginVegGrower]

My nasturtium are already out, but they are hardened off and semi sheltered. Same with pot marigolds (English, not French). Mint is fine. Sage and rosemary will need hardening off.

[taff]

can you make a cold frame or similar? you only need a few bricks or something to make a space between the floor and a pane of glass or a window or sheet of poly or something....Insulate the floor if it's concrete with a bit of bubblewrap or some newspaper and you can leave most of the herbs out there [not the oregano I don't think....]

[Sarico]

sorry guys i just realized that when i said outside i mean leave them in my blowaway at night instead to bring them in at night..... i always put my pots in there in the morning (9 am) and put them back in the kitchen in afternoon (5pm.. considered that i work in the restaurant till 10pm and more) i have 3 blowaway in the garden so 12 shelves all together and in my kitchen only 4 shelves to use for the pots...i have 8 gravel tray where i put 11 3'' pots each but i have another 20 pots that i want to move them in the morning in the blowaway from my windowsill so i can pot the other seedling that are still wait in the seed tray... i know i sow to much but is like a drug and everytime i see the seeds box i put some in a seed tray... then i pick the best one and all the rest of the plants i will give them to friends or give them to my OH for the playgroup that she work...