Topic: whoops!

[The-goodlife2012]

Ok im waiting for the I told you so!,

Went and did a silly thing planted out my sweetcorn the other week in the nice weather and yup it went cold and now its R.I.P sweetcorn  :-\ I should of known better having doing this lottie thing for 30 years but i thought sod it lets try and see, any how new seeds purchased yesterday and in the propagator  ;).

but my corgettes and squash are loving it under thier fleece

[shirlton]

You have put your squash out in th open? :o

[goodlife]

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Ok im waiting for the I told you so!,

I TOLD YOU SO! ...there, no need to wait anymore.. ;) ;D
I haven't sown my squash..nor sweetcorn yet. I'm sort of planning to stat next week..but it all depends how wintery this weather is going to be.. ::)

[RenishawPhil]

I put  6 of my sweet corn plants out to with the courgette. Under thier mini polytunnel.

[Stevens706]

Going to sow the sweetcorn next week, keep indoors for 3 weeks then out under fleece

[gwynnethmary]

I've got some sown in newspaper pots ready to go out in my daughter-in-law's new plot, but just read in a gardening magazine that you should leave it for 5 years before planting sweetcorn in "new" ground because of wireworm.  Does anyone on here have any wisdom on this?

[davyw1]

I've got some sown in newspaper pots ready to go out in my daughter-in-law's new plot, but just read in a gardening magazine that you should leave it for 5 years before planting sweetcorn in "new" ground because of wireworm.  Does anyone on here have any wisdom on this?

Hi Gwynneth hope you are getting there

This usualy aplies if the ground was previosly grassland not ground that has been cultivated or grass free for a number of seasons

[chriscross1966]

I put sweetcorn in a newly broken plot last year and got an excellent crop...

[The-goodlife2012]

You have put your squash out in th open? :o

yes under a fleece and its fine (touch wood)

[gwynnethmary]

I put sweetcorn in a newly broken plot last year and got an excellent crop...

So there's hope then?  The ground in question has just been rough grass. dock and nettles for a good many years, with lots of glass and other rubbish buried in the soil.  It's been dug and cleared, as best I could.  I could always try a small patch and see what happens!

[davyw1]

Gwyneth just give the ground a quick turn over it will freeze them to death