With Easter almost at May Day this year and the spring unseasonable early, I'm getting pretty confused as to what should be happening when. The weather is baking hot for April, about 26C today, which makes it feel like we have completely by-passed spring and hopped straight to summer! After much deliberation I have decided to plant out some tender varieties a little earlier this year, courgettes, sweetcorn and runner beans have gone in today, under closh though at night. Night temperature have averaged above 10C for the past week and look set to continue, so I wanted to capitalise on the warm spell to get them off to a good start. It doesn't matter if they fail, I have back ups growing!
Courgette Early Gem and Jemmer
Courgette Early Gem and Jemmer
Sweetcorn Sundance
Runner beans
Plot overview at dusk
I bravely planted out my borlotti beans the other day: my peas and sweetcorn looked too weeny to go out just yet so I've left them in the greenhouse for a little longer:
ReplyDeletegood idea your orange shells ~ slug probs or cats?
your plot looks great!
soon be lushly green and ready to eat {nom}
The orange shells are for the slugs, they have entirely hollowed out the middle already! I also put coffee grounds down as slugs hate those.
ReplyDeleteSo many people on my plots are planting stuff out early,so I thought 'oh well, why not'! It's about a month too soon to put in sweetcorn and courgettes, so if we return to cooler weather they will probably sulk, but I can always transplant the back-ups in the greenhouse if it doesn't work. Good luck with yours!