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
No prospect of frost tomorrow night in Dartford then?
Still on hold here in the freezing north...and SO windy.
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!!
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
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  :'(
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!
knowwhatyoumean Kitty...
I found all my carefully hardened-off (and by now completely pot-bound) cucurbits blowing around on the floor this afternoon!
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.