Forecast here is 1C for tonight. I’ve just been out and put the mardy plants to bed with their fleece blankets and blueberry bush is tucked inside my shed. It’s nippy out there already.
My neighbour thought it was funny I hadnt planted out, was hardening off, hes put his peas and beans out 3 weeks ago. Planted out at the weekend, says 2c for here, maybe frost, haning baskets in yet again then. Tomatoes still in the greenhouse, though
Can I ask for an update please? It’s now May 15th, no frosty nights forecast (7 degrees is the lowest, with most nights going down to 10 or 11 here on the south coast). Days are all set for 16-20 degrees, light to moderate wind, though my little garden is fairly sheltered.
I have courgettes, cosmos, stocks, peas desperate to be planted out as they’re getting quite large. Know it’s meant to be late May but what do you think? Anyone else planted out already? Also have several tomatoes getting too big. Tomatoes are tumbling Tom and they’re going into baskets and pots. Everything has been hardening off in shade for a week and a half, today’s their first trip into the sun....
Have potatoes well earthed up for the final time plenty of growth, peas and runner beans climbing up the sticks, spun fleece round the runner beans, as frost protection, the couple of mornings when there has been a frost out early and watered potatoes and runner beans, with cold water to thaw out slowly, no damage, tomatoes planted in pots in the glasshouse, tomatoes in pots outside during the day to harden off, they will be planted in the veg plot in a week or so, potted flowers, geraniums etc out during the day back in the glasshouse at night, for another week or so, carrots beetroot germinated, greyhound cabbage and cauliflower looking good in the garden been planted a fortnight, as well as little gem lettuce, and leeks, the cabbage and cauliflower's netted as defence against cabbage white butterflies.
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I have courgettes, cosmos, stocks, peas desperate to be planted out as they’re getting quite large. Know it’s meant to be late May but what do you think? Anyone else planted out already? Also have several tomatoes getting too big. Tomatoes are tumbling Tom and they’re going into baskets and pots. Everything has been hardening off in shade for a week and a half, today’s their first trip into the sun....
Next year I’ll sow a couple weeks later....