Hardening off has to be done slowly, or a sudden cold shock will check growth
There is so much to be done at the moment: all those seeds that need to be scattered and the seedlings that will be rapidly outgrowing their pots. But if you are just opening your first seed packet, don’t panic. It’s always tempting, particularly when Instagram is taunting you, to think that you are behind in sowing. You are not. Don’t get distracted by false gods.
As my mother always reminds me, the hardier veg (beetroot, spring onions, lettuce, carrots, parsnips, basically anything other than chillies) sown later in March or early April grows at such a pace that it will quickly outstrip the early birds. I say this over and over again, in part to remind myself; but seeds sown in step with the season grow in time with the lengthening days, and are much more likely to take on the slugs, snails and other marauders out to get them.
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