[loubylou29]

So I am sitting on my hands and am trying to lay off planting (Although I did set some seeds the other day and have put them in pots in the poly tunnel on a  polystyrene board, no great shakes if they don't grow.)

So when you guys are talking about the soil warming up and there being no frosts you seem to be referring to late April early May, now I am confused by this because I though frost risk was only passed at the end of May ('ner cast a clout an all that!)  So when do we consider it safe to plant most things out, peas, beans, roots? other 'sensitive things?


Thanks
Lucyx

[muntjac]

i say end this month .. now may is famous around here for the easterly winds we get ,the cherry blossom realy gets hammered  but frosts are rare . i rest my case ur honour

[Aidy]

I think its a bit tricky this, there are a lot of factors involved. Soil type is one, if you have a clay based soil that normally holds more water and will take longer to warm than say a sandy or light soil, then you have the raised bed factor, raised beds again will warm before a flat bed, region will also influence this and finaly the crop, some crops like broad beans will go in before sweetcorn, so work out what is hardy, semi hardy (can be put under cloches) and then the not hardy. Once you get a feel for this you can start your crops off, best thing to do if you are on an allotment is to talk to the old boys or if there is an allotment nearby try going down and talking to someone, last resort is to pop into your local garden centre, the real ones not the B&Qs.

[loubylou29]

i say end this month .. now may is famous around here for the easterly winds we get ,the cherry blossom realy gets hammered  but frosts are rare . i rest my case ur honour

No see, you are one for having waited, so as of next week can I plant everything then and be safe cos Munty said so?  

[DD.]

i say end this month .. now may is famous around here for the easterly winds we get ,the cherry blossom realy gets hammered  but frosts are rare . i rest my case ur honour

No see, you are one for having waited, so as of next week can I plant everything then and be safe cos Munty said so?  

I'm wondering if Munty doesn't mean the end of April.

[Aidy]

here we go again Digger, only Munty knows what he is on about  

[DD.]

here we go again Digger, only Munty knows what he is on about  

Careful what you say, we'll get 'wassuked'.

[muntjac]

well i am planting my stuff as of the rain passing , spuds the whole kit and caboodle wil take pics of the plots next week where you will see i have  been working  as apposed to when i hand dug . i will be planting all crops that normally go in this next month seed only i already have onion sets and shallots in as i said earlier ....here's my list


artichokes
beans runners .french french climbing beans .haricot
beetroot
brocoli calabrese and purple sprouting.
brussel sprouts
cabage early .summer cabbage . savoy
cauliflower summer .autumn. winter head
celeriac.
celery trench
cucs
kale curly
leeks l
lettuce
marrows  /courgettes
parsnips
peppers
pumpkins and squashes
peas the  whole different set
spuds earliues  n lates
radish.
spinach beet perpetual loads of it
sweet corn
seakale
toms
turnips .. summer  

 gonna alos sow new chivee and other herb beds pots etc  doing burnet this year after having a meal with a friend who has it growing wild in her garden also orache if any of them fail then i shall just say tuff luck karl n sow /plant some more  

[richyrich7]

I've just put in my early peas, 1st early pots went in last week, and my JA's went in 3 weeks ago ( but they look like slug fodder at the mo ).

Tender stuff like Tom's, Sweetcorn, runners, etc won't go out till last week of May.

[muntjac]

forgot to say im gonna do some cannalini beans  and also some blue lake pole beans cos they are blooming loverly  and some emerite pole beans  we had em in tennesssee n dammmmm they goood

[richyrich7]

forgot to say im gonna do some cannalini beans  and also some blue lake pole beans cos they are blooming loverly  and some emerite pole beans  we had em in tennesssee n dammmmm they goood

I know you got four plots munty but where do you put it all ! I'm starting to think I've not enough room with one plot and run of the mill veg.
The vacant plot next to me might get a dose of roundup at this rate  

[muntjac]

believe me mate it all goes in .its made room for in all sorts of ways  if you have a row of lettuce and or beet why not put a couple high obelisks over them to grow stuff up .the ends of rows are wasted space how many of you leave a foot or 2 from the path before you start sowing and planting out rows ?. walls can be used  as can the sides of bins greenhouses outside can have a net draped over them and more beans grown up them or even outside cucs ?