a good day

[David R]

went to lotty today, and I planted out.........

6 french bean plants
1 burples cuc
1 butternut squash
1 bush marrow
1 pepper plant
1 chilli plant
15 sweetcorn
20 swedes

leaving about 40 leeks for tommorow  :)

I feel truly content

[David R]

[terrace max]

No prospect of frost tomorrow night in Dartford then?

Still on hold here in the freezing north...and SO windy.

[Aussie Chick]

David R,
Do you really mean you planted your chili outside? I thought it should go in the greenhouse? How big was your sweetcorn. I think mine is still slug size!!

[David R]

I have grown chillies in an out house a few times and always get a good crop, but prone to pest. They love the outdoors here in the south. I grew spanish peppers and chillies outside last year, no problems whatsoever.

My toms have been in pots outside in the garden for 3-4 weeks, even had some mild frost early on but they were properly hardened of so it did not touch them.

My sweetcorn are about 2-3" in toilet rolls, then planted out deep. They grow roots from their stems like toms so can be buried without fear. Also helps with stability. I sowed them at the beginning of May.

I suppose I am risking frost but my instinct says go for it

[honeybee]

Well done David, that contented feeling is so good isnt it? ;D

Terrace i know what you mean about those winds, i nearly lost my wig on a few occasions today :o
And i only just put my hanging baskets out yesterday and now i am all worried about them  :'(

[kitty]

i am truly fed up with playing the okeycokey with my hanging baskets-i'd decided last night(when there was a heatwave in lincolnshire)that they can take their chances now-having hardened them off...however woke up today to a hurricane and baskets  swinging wildly-tumbling tom clinging on foer dear life nearly out the soil..... >:(grrr!bloomin weather!

[terrace max]

knowwhatyoumean Kitty...

I found all my carefully hardened-off (and by now completely pot-bound) cucurbits blowing around on the floor this afternoon!

[Robert_Brenchley]

I had a tray of tomatoes sitting on top of a chemical loo beside my shed, waiting to be planted out. They were upside-down thismorning, but don't seem to have come to any harm. They're all in now, anyway.