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margaretta | 15:37 Mon 21st Apr 2014 | Home & Garden
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Is it too soon to put in bedding plants? I live in Dorset
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It is a bit too early though you could risk it and hope that we don't get any frosts. A couple more weeks would be better. Unless you're doing baskets and tubs and then you could possibly put them in gargae or shed if low temps are due!
I am further north (Derbys) and will wait a few weeks to "do the borders"
I live in hampshire....wouldn't bed out before May but have done sme of my buying and am hardening them off.
If you buy your bedding plants from a reputable nursery, it may be worth your while to ask if the plants have been hardened off.
Definitely risky.
I never put mine out until May. I was scraping ice off my car on Saturday morning, so definitely too early.
I also live in Dorset and we have had 1 or 2 frosts recently. I'd also wait until May (or at least until the blackthorn has stopped flowering!)
I was once told by one old boy long time ago, don't plant any bedding plants until Whitsun as there is still a chance of frost.
Far too early, end of may at the very earliest
A wise old gardener told me many years ago to always wait till after FA Cup
Final day! Have adhered to this and never had any disasters.
Well, May tomorrow, but still a bit early for me on the cold east coast of Scotland. Thought Dorset would be a few degrees warmer?

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