100s of gorse seedlings: to be left out in the cold...
The gorse seeds were collected early last autumn, and I wasn't really thinking through the timescales involved. I scarified them in almost-boiling water, and sowed them in the two seed trays you can see on the right of the photo, that was probably early November. They've been in the seed trays on the sideboard by the bay window since then, nestling amongst Xmas presents for a while because that's where the tree goes. They're getting their first true leaves, so it's time to prick them out. I took them to the allotment this morning. The thermometer tells me it's been down to -4.5C this week, even though it hasn't been particularly cold elsewhere, the allotment is one of those 'rural areas' the weather forecasters refer to, outwith the Glasgow urban micro-climate. I planned to prick out 200 or more, but decided to stop at 50, because I just don't know how gorse seedlings will fare in these temperatures, and didn't want to spend time on th