My answer would be YES it is to cold.

Just wait till a long time brug grower gives you the correct answer.

Lucy

I agree too with lucy.. Coming from a climate like yours.. Keep them inside and remove the leaves. Not top ones! This keeps the bugs down for you. Excellant question.. I am still a newb only growing for two years only. If I am wrong pop in senoir members... (sheepish grin I think I am right, I hope they agree) Barb

It is normal for them to send up those pale green or white shoots. Just leave them, those night temps are too cold. Wait until the temps are above freezing to put them in your shed. That shed will be good for them when the temps are above freezing but there is still a frost danger.
Shawn

Yep, what Shawn said.

**If** you can keep your shed heated to 10C, then you can put them into it Thistle. I keep mine in an independent shed/greenhouse that is kept all 10C all winter and pray every year that we don't lose power to it. Try a few nights with the heater going but no plants in it and see if you can maintain the temp first though. I am not sure you will gain much by doing this before the end of March here though. I wait til then to send mine on their way.

I would leave them where they are until the nights are above 40. Why move them twice and you know they are safe now?

Thistle, I wouldn't even think about moving them. We don't
have very long to wait now :)
Margaret

If you only have a few (& don't mind the exercise), move them in & outside as the weather lets you. All the greens that you pinch off will grow back when the real warm weather gets here. I wouldn't move to your shed unless you know you can keep the temps up. When is your frost date?

Linda

I think in my heart I knew what the answer to my question would be,so I guess I will wait a little bit.Thanks to all you good people for replying.
The reason I am in a hurry is that my entire laundry room and some of the utility room is full of pots I can hardly move and DH is getting fed up with them being there (too bad! I say about that. lol)
I could probably get the temperature up in my shed, but the Hydro bill would probably not warrent it,so
in the Laundry room they will stay,probably won't be for much longer anyway.

LOL Thistle

Yyyyyyyyep. Welcome to brug addictions. Ha!

Rule of thumb I read, move them out when the nite time temp does not drop below your storage temp. Now THAT seems like a waste to me, because if you're storing them at 50, I'm not gonna wait until 50 degree nites.

I personally move them out AFTER last danger of frost (and even then, I take a big risk because a frost wont' necessarily kill the whole plant, just the tender tops.)

But then again, I'm in Illinois, and EVERYTHING is so short here. LAST year stunk, we had cold damp yuck weather way down into May. And by May the year before, I had blooms.

I'm hopign for a wonderful early warm spring this year, jump start EVERYTHING.

I'm going to be a rototilling MAMA. none of the yard is going to be safe from me! Turn the whole yard into a DIRT pile. (grin)