Pot on or plant out?

[bario1]

Hi all,

These sweetcorn are destined for the polytunnel bed. They're getting too big for these root trainers, but I think it's still to early to plant out. Would I be best potting on, and do sweetcorn need deep pots?

[Lamboluke]

I've repotted mine as sweet corn are susceptible to frosts and don't do well in cold weather.
Pot on aand wait until things warm up.

[rustylady]

Plant out into polytunnel and be prepared to cover with fleece if hard frost forecast

[muddled]

Split the difference....

We've cold weather over the whole UK next week following on from two or more really hot weeks! So I'd do nothing just yet and make a final decision next week when the weather has made up its mind.

[bario1]

Nice spread of answers there! I'm hell-bent on getting a sweetcorn this year, so I think I'm going to pot on the biggest ones in deep pots and keep mollycoddling them until the weather settles down.

[coffeegirl]

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I'm a newish gardener and have to say that I always pre-germinate my seeds and then sow them outside. I did the same with sweetcorn and they are growing fine without any fleece or protection. I know I should probably look after them better but at the moment - lets see what happens.

[bario1]

I don't know where you are Coffeegirl, but here it's snowing right now!

[Bigmallly]

I'm with RL. I'd put them in the tunnel with maybe a fleece cloche over them for added protection.