[Kevin67]

A good link - I've added it my permanent pages. Thanks!

[mumofstig]

A good link - I've added it my permanent pages. Thanks!

I have to ask why? Are you going to live in Bulgaria?

[tosca100]

A good link - I've added it my permanent pages. Thanks!

I have to ask why? Are you going to live in Bulgaria?

You change your location at the top of the page MOS

[mumofstig]

Ah - ok! Obviously didn't see that 

[sarajane]

I will be starting some off at the end of Jan and hope to harvest first ones at the beginning of June.  Mine live on a camping table in the front room (with a large bay window and a very understanding OH).  Alongside will be the chilli and aubergine.

I'll also do some in March to ensure later tomatoes (and in case I have failures)

[adri]

As regards that planting guide I'd be wary...

For Nottingham it says "tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants? Start these indoors around February 23"

But for Colne Near Burnley it says "tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants? Start these indoors around December 22"

WHAT!!!!???

[pigguns]

I sowed auberg and chillis indoors, spare room last Dec 26th and they did really well, but to be honest am not doing that this year yet as I think we won't be as lucky to have a mild winter as we had last year....maybe end Jan.
Thinking about leeks & Spring onions though as I have itchy fingers....

[Kristen]

As regards that planting guide I'd be wary...

For Nottingham it says "tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants? Start these indoors around February 23"

But for Colne Near Burnley it says "tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants? Start these indoors around December 22"

WHAT!!!!???

Entirely dependent on that site's First / Last frost date being correct.  Personally I think basing things on Frost dates is better suited to USA than here.  USA comes out of winter at a fairly predictable time, and change from Winter to Summer pretty much overnight.  Here we can have no frost after February one year, and frosts up to late May in other years.

Strikes me that Last Frost date, as a basis, alone is not use because it doesn't take into account if the day light length is enough, nor if the overnight temperatures are sufficient - e.g. Tomatoes will need minimum of 10C overnight, and being after "Last Frost" certainly doesn't guarantee that in the UK!!

For Nottingham that site has: frost-free growing season starts May 3 and ends Oct 17
Colne: frost-free growing season starts Mar 1 and ends Nov 1

Maybe that is right, that the western location has more maritime influence than Nottingham? but you or I can add a new location, and First / Last frost dates of your/my own, which will then become the standard for that location I reckon ...

[tosca100]

Errr, I only put the link on to illustate the fact that Bulgaria has two growing seasons for most things. Like all of this type of thing (especially as it's world wide) they are taken as averages and it does say to check the forecast. There are differences here between mountain/lowland/coast.inland and this is just a guide.

I have early, mid and late tomato seeds with BG instructions. This chart will be a reminder to get them in when it is too hot to think straight which is hard to believe at the moment, we are down to -17 tonight!

[beesrus]

I've always thought tomatoes are one crop that can give a hugely increased harvest period in a cold greenhouse if we can take advantage of our own particular micro climate. Down here in the far South West, on the coast, we have particularly mild late Winter/early Springs "on average"..... so worth a punt, nothing lost.

I sow quite a few seeds in the propagator mid February to germinate, and then a couple of weeks after germination they go to the cold greenhouse under double insulated domes in March. It's a cusp thing that nearly always works. In the unlikely event down here of a March/April heavy frost occuring that could penetrate a greenhouse and double insulation, I take the pots home for a couple of days. The extra light available in the greenhouse, as opposed to my house, is worth the risk and extra effort. This might not work for those living a few miles inland.

[LotuSeed]

Won't do mine until sometime in March. Our last frost date isn't until early April and as I don't have a greenhouse or high/low tunnel there'd be no where to keep them for four months🍅.