Hardening seedlings

[Indveg]

Hello,

Kept my seedlings out today to harden. Few of them snapped due to wind.
How many days to keep them out before planting them at the final place?

This week is hot and night temperatures are double digits.

[veggiechicken]

What are they?
Can you put them somewhere sheltered out of the wind?

[self-contained]

Working full time and really not being a morning person has made it impossible for me to give my plants a nice gentle hardening off.

Everything so far has been shoved outside as much as possible at the weekend, starting in a spot with all day shade. If they manage that okay, the next day they get some more sun. I've repeated that over two or three weekends, then they've been planted out and it's sink or swim. Everything has come through okay so far (I've lost more seedlings to windowsill scorching than the great outdoors) but my garden is relatively sheltered so I've not had a big problem with gusts of wind.

Can you create a bit of shelter/a windbreak somehow?

[monkeyboy]

Have a look at the likes of something like this:

https://www.homebase.co.uk/sprout-pv...nhouse_p422924

[Indveg]

Well, I have kept all my seedlings like runner beans, eggplant, chillies, courgettes etc outside. The runner beans have snapped and yes tomatoes as well.
The temp are hot but next week the weather prediction is winds up to 17mph.

I have planted the runnerbean in the ground yesterday and have tied them to the support.

[Indveg]

The garden is open. Two long gaps to the side of the house where the wind speed dou. Any flower bush I can plant there to break the wind? It's quite shady though.

[nickdub]

plenty of choice of shrubs that would do the job - how about viburnum tinus ? - its evergreen, tough and doesn't get too huge.

[Indveg]

Thanks Nick. Will look for it.