Squash plants out...no choice

[Jeannine]

Well please wish me well.

It has been a very funny year.I planted my squash as I always do quite early, then moved them up in pots as I always do,then put them in a cold greenhouse as I always  do until ready to go out inmid  May...but this year the greenhouse has not been cold and even with the door open for 2 weeks they are growing like mad,so with flowers on they had to go out today,no choice,they would have died if I had not done so.

So all 28 of them are in the open ground!!!

I put out summer squash last weekend under poly tunnels but these guys are on their own.

I guess I am going to sweat a little for the next wee while but it was Hobsons choice I am afraid.

XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

[Robert_Brenchley]

Cover them with fleece if the weather looks like turning chilly. mine will probably be going out early as well, under cloches.

[manicscousers]

ours are going out on monday, still some not germinated  :)

[flossie]

Good luck

[Jeannine]

Can't cover with fleece there is an allotment full !! 28 squash planted with 6 feet between plants and rows. Xx Jeannine

[Marymary]

Are they too big for the cut-in-half 2lt bottle, Jeannine?  Will follow this thread with interest as some of mine are getting too big for the greenhouse [no flowers yet] but I am too scared to risk them yet.

[Jeannine]

Yes, they are 18 inches high and about as wide XX Jeannine

[Doris_Pinks]

You are a brave woman!  :o  Mine are still seeds! ::) :-\

[Jeannine]

If I had known we were in for such a daft spring mine would e to XXX Jeannine

[mc55]

crikey - and flowers already !  have my fingers crossed