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when to plant out

dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
in Fruit & veg
Guidance please. when to plant Tomatoes, Pepper, chilli and aubergine out? Can I plant them in raised bed now or will it be too early or lower temperature will affect them? I was thinking of planting them outside and cover them with transparent plastic bottle with bottom cut off to provide bit of protection. Your advice and guidance will be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Who knows this year but it's definitely too early to plant out tomatoes
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    If you can put a bottle over your plants, they are much too small to plant out yet,  my tomatoes will go out around the start of June. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Show us some pictures of the plants, depends partly where you live,I live in the warmest mildest part of the SE UK only 10 minutes from the sea,and the only crop out of those I grow outside is tomatoes. The others stay in the green house. If you don't have one sunny window sills. It's been years since I had a decent crop of peppers grown outside
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Same here, peppers grown in the conservatory.
    I’ve  neve grown chilllies or aubergines but a friend near to me grows chillies in his poly tunnel.
    If they are to be grown outside I’d definitely wait until 1st week in June.
    Weather man said last night that temperatures are much lower than they should be for the time of the year. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Aubergines also need to be grown under glass in most parts of the UK.  Even then it can be a struggle to get them to ripen before the cold start getting to them at the end of the season.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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