In or Out, North or South?

[AllInContainers]

Ordinarily I'd like to keep my seedlings and young plants indoors on the windowsills until May - unfortunately I have a serious problem this year - quantity! I need input as to how I can try to juggle everything about until it's time for them all to go outside.

I have two windows south facing, and two windows north facing, and some of these are only about 5" deep. Here's what's currently residing there

Seedlings:
4 x Dahlia Yams
4 x Queensland Arrowroot
2 x Golden Pearls (Golden Huckleberry)
1 x Inca Berry
2 x Wonderberry (Black Huckleberry)
40 cell Window prop with "ebay" novelty strawbs (black, blue, yellow, giant red)
72 cell window prop with wild white strawberry seedlings. I need about 30 plants from this, and when I've pricked out and potted them on, they'll take up more room than they currently do ...
4 x 3" pots with coloured grass seedlings (I could sling these and re-sow later in the year when everything else has gone outside)

Bush:
Dwarf Pomegranate (currently 18" high)

So far so good, but ... here's what else I need to sow and find indoor space for:

2 or 3 x Minnesota Midget Melon
3 or 4 x Rainbow Chilli
2 x Outdoor ripening chilli
4 x Hyacinth Beans
4 x Asparagus Peas

... and here's the REAL killer ...

2 x 18 pot trays for temporarilly housing 36 strawberry runners which are on their way to me. These two trays would just about fill the two downstairs windowsills on their own. The problem is that the strawberry planters I have, all need to be planted up at the same time - I can't plant some then go back and plant more later, and before I put the 36 runners out, I need the wild whites to have developed enough to go out at the same time. I have to plant the tubs up as I fill them, whites at the back, and reds at the front.

I need to try and take a gamble with putting some stuff outside, and some stuff in north facing windows

Any ideas on which to risk putting where ...?

[Alison]

The strawberries aren't tender so put them out. My runners have been out all winter and in past years have been covered in snow when only in 3" plastic pots and have been fine. That should free up plenty of space.

[AllInContainers]

That's going to be a huge help. Thanks Alison. As young plants will they still be fine if they're not receiving direct sunlight? I'm getting very little direct sun in the garden at the moment

[Penellype]

I agree I'd put the strawberries outside. If its going to be very cold you could always throw some fleece over them. My strawberries were planted from bare root plants in early February and some of them had to go outside because there wasn't enough room in the growhouse. They are only just starting to get a teeny bit of sun at midday, but they have been in full shade upto now. They look fine.

[AllInContainers]

Wonderful! Thanks Penellype