got a couple of weeks off and i am desperate to get stuck in down the plot, i am ready to plant out my sensitive stuff but there is a chance of frost tonight, we won't get one i am absolutely certain but i can't take the chance. the trouble is if i go down today for a weed and a potter i'll end up giving in and planting stuff out as i have no willpower so i'm staying away til tomorrow!!
Whereabouts are you? There can't be too many areas with a chance of a frost now!
whitley bay. metcheck say chance of frost but we don't get many at our site as we are close to the sea.
What difference will a day make? Wait til tomorrow, just to be on the safe side.
Not that I could! I put a few half-hardies (courgettes and french beans) out a month ago (in greater London) under a double layer of fleece. All have done well (apart from the snails eating the beans!)
i'm going to wait a day but it means i'd better not go there at all!!!! not the easiest thing when you're not at work!!!
good luck
two weeks off that would be nice
i have a few days if i am lucky
i'm working every weekend after this til september so i have to spend some time with my husband!!
Legless,
I think you are meant to say that with slightly more feeling ;)
Phil
i suppose Phil, i'll work on it :D ;)
why dont you go and get a bbq and take it to the lottie and you and your OH can enjkoy and get some lottie work done together
And don't forget the beer if he is anything like my OH! ;)
my other half says he'll come down the allotment if i get him a hammock! sometimes i can bribe him with the promise of beer cooling in the water butt, but he says it was my silly idea and he's not really interested!
actually i lie, he did plant the potatoes - the rows are a little, well, not at all straight but hey who like straight lines anyway?
he works with the guy who is doing the research into slug control using garlic if only he would show an interest i could get insider info!!
never mind - gotta love him really
Know just what you mean Jo, I have been holding off too. My greenhouse is chockablock with stuff to put out. Squashes are definitely going in this weekend, - heavan knows what their poor roots must feel like all cramped into pots. They look as though they are bursting out. Will hope to get most of the things out of the greenhouse in the next few days come hail or storm. Are you putting any squashes out?
Hope you manage to sweet talk your OH. ;D busy_lizzie Â
squashes will be going out tomorrow i think, uchiki kiri, and courgettes. the twonga and cucumbers aren't quite ready yet so sometime next week..
Might see you down there Jo... ;D
Debs
I've been lucky enough to plant out my squash, cues, courgettes etc, two (or was it three? I'm having one of my 'senior moments') weeks ago, and so far - well, nothing really. They haven't died, but they haven't really grown any either. They're just sitting there watching me and waiting for... I don't know - a bus?
Anyone else got veg on strike?
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Mine is all on strike too, except for my spinach which has gone berserk!
The only things not on strike on my lottie are the slugs and weeds ;D
My peas are on strike. Three weeks and ......... nothing happening. They are the same as when they went in.
Think our sweetcorn is waiting for Christmas !! All was going really well until a few weeks ago (when quite a few of us had the escaping sweetcorn roots panic and had to repot into larger paper pot) and since then it's not done a thing :(. It still looks healthy but hasn't grown even a tiny bit. I suppose its sulking but enough is enough. Going to plant it out this week so watch this space :). Whats really annoying is that the chap whose plot backs on to ours has sweetcorn growing so fast you can nearly see it move. Its really strange - he has an absolutely immaculate plot which didn't appear to have anything growing on it (not even a weed) till about a month ago and now its full of everything you can think of (except weed!!) but nobody ever sees him there - the phantom of the allotments perhaps.
Anyway I'm rambling a bit but just wanted to say - we had our first compliment at the weekend - one of the other plot holders remarked on how healthy our squash looked and ASKED FOR TIPS ;D ;D. Unfortunately it was more good luck than good judgement so had to waffle a bit ::). Don't think he was fooled ;D