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Can I plant out the gourd and squash with 8 degrees Celsius night time temperature

BluebelltimeBluebelltime Posts: 196
edited May 2021 in Fruit & veg

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Are you going to separate them, depending on the variety,the pumpkins and squashes I grow get up to 12 feet,I wind them round on the ground.do you intend to climb them up a structure? They are big greedy plants. I live in the most sheltered warmest area of the UK and I have been hardening them off during the day. Am hoping to start leaving them out overnight, now with a view to planting them in their final position early June
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Looking at the long range forecast for East Anglia, I've a feeling my squashes and tomatoes may not be going outside at night until well into next month ... in which case I'm going to have to reduce the number I have grown in order to have room for them indoors when potted on into even bigger pots .......... who'd be a gardener eh?  Relaxing huh!  Good for our emotional well-being eh? 😭

    Here's hoping for an Indian Summer ... eventually ................ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BluebelltimeBluebelltime Posts: 196
    Yes. Will separate them and plant in the ground. I'm just concerned about temperature. If 8 degrees C is not too cold for them to be planted outside 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    It is too cold
  • BluebelltimeBluebelltime Posts: 196
    How about 10 degrees C?
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Dovefromabove said:
    Looking at the long range forecast for East Anglia, I've a feeling my squashes and tomatoes may not be going outside at night until well into next month ... in which case I'm going to have to reduce the number I have grown in order to have room for them indoors when potted on into even bigger pots .......... who'd be a gardener eh?  Relaxing huh!  Good for our emotional well-being eh? 😭

    Here's hoping for an Indian Summer ... eventually ................ 

    I've just had 15 more bags of compost delivered, with the expectation that I'll have to be keeping squashes and courgettes in the greenhouses for quite a while yet.  'luckily' I have a number of large pots unexpectedly become free, but only because vine weevils have destroyed all strawberry plants they had in them! 😡
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Mine have gone in the ground since yesterday with a cloche over them, they’ve been spending time outdoors for nearly a week anyway. Mine are still only about 3 leaves but I couldn’t be doing with digging in huge plants with large rootballs. Fingers crossed.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Mine have lots of flowers they have been hardening off a week in the day yes they're going out. I've moved most stuff to the green houses and the stuff from them outside
  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    edited May 2021
    looking at the weather forecast I would wait a bit more. It doesn’t look like weather for planting out over the next few days at least.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Indian summer that's in September,!!
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