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.
How are your squashes doing ? Thinking I should brave it and plant mine outside.
Strictly speaking it's in October and November @Nanny Beach ... if the rain and cold stops next weekend, as 'they' are suggesting it might, then stretching the summer out from then until November might just about make up for this awful spring.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Nanny Beach - nothing to do with early morning mist. Indian summer is named after North American Indians who had a special name for an unseasonably late warm spell in autumn, after standard summer was long over. It is now considered "offensive" to call it and Indian summer and PC people refer to it as Second summer.
We have just had downpour with some hail. Than goodness I have resisted the urge to plant out large leaved baby courgettes and squashes.
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@Obelixx .. learn something new every day , I always thought Indian summer referred to Indian subcontinent where ( in some parts , it's climatically diverse!) October and early November post-rains can be very hot! (edit to add i am not doubting your info , just reflecting that I had always assumed this to be the case)
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.
How are your squashes doing ? Thinking I should brave it and plant mine outside.
Still under the cloche and looks ok. I’ve got more backup that’s still hardening off in a type of cold frame. I’ll get them all in the ground thi week but don’t know how I’ll have space to give them a meter as sometimes they don’t want to climb, they just want to sprawl.
To me an indian summer is just a warm autumn, so perhaps we could just call it that. We don't have any kind of special name for a cold spring (other than bloomin' nuisance) or a warm spring, after all.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I saw on TV, Indian Summer, it said it was in autumn, when the Amercan Indians used the cover of the mist to creep up on the cowboys.My best friend is Indian, and wouldnt be a bit offended.Lots of Un PC on here then calling it an Indian Summer, wait we havent had the first one yet!!
It is all about American native Indians, not Asian Indians @Nanny Beach and was something that was named long before there were cowboys and cattle ranches while the early British and other colonists were still struggling to survive on the east coast without a clue about weather patterns, soils and what they could grow and eat and hunt.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have just had downpour with some hail. Than goodness I have resisted the urge to plant out large leaved baby courgettes and squashes.