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Yes, night-time temperatures a bit parky! Most of my stuff should be adequately hardened off as I don't heat anything outdoors, but the toms in the greenhouse might be back in for a few days, and will have to keep an eye on the spuds. The Swift in bags are too far on to earth up... must get the bubble out!Anyone heard any word on how long it's expected to last? I realise that forecasting that far ahead is a mug's game but might as well plan a bit...Adrian
For the last two or three weeks, I've watched other plotholders plant out French beans and sweetcorn and so on while I've not yet sown all mine at home. We can get a bitter wind well into May that strips the leaves off the young plants and a frost isn't impossible, though unusual. So for a couple of years others are almost harvesting courgettes when I plant mine out. I've sown things a bit earlier this year (not going on holiday in May eases the timetable as well!) but I'm glad I've only peas and broad beans planted out so far. I won't get any satisfaction if others lose their plants to several days of frost, it'll be a sad outcome, but I won't question my own caution either.Now I've just got to move 30 tomato young plants, some chilies and basil out of my non-frost proof greenhouse (I lost a lot of lobelia last year) to somewhere safer for the next few nights.
Lost count of the hundreds of snails we've lobbed across the road into the hedgerows and this year has been so wet so far we have hundreds of slugs too.
I know but in normal times they'd either get run over or cook on the hot tarmac as they crawl back and any survivors will have to negotiate our own roadside verge, ditch, hedge and then grass or a sharp gravel drive.