[Eblana]

Hi folks,  Haven’t been able to go to plot because of lockdown since end of February.  Our newly published roadmap for return to ‘normal’ shows I will be allowed back from 18th May.  I am going to start stuff off in plugs this weekend to get a head start.  What do I need to concentrate on that needs to be in ASAP to get a harvest and what can I sow direct in the ground from end May (it will take a week or two to pull it together) and still get good crop?

[Hampshire Hog]

Obviously depends on what you like to eat but salads are an obvious thing lettuce, radish beetroot. Roots like carrot. I would concentrate on plants that are frost sensitive so you would want to put them out in late May June anyway. Courgettes, squash, French beans, runner beans, sweet corn. Later you could sow Florence fennel which goes in mid summer. Another key question is what seeds do you have or can you get. Ask friends if they have any spare tomato plants,
Good luck HH

[mumofstig]

Any potatoes you still have to plant, would be the first thing IMO.
Tender stuff - toms, cucumbers, squash and corn need sowing now and then planting when you can get on the plot. Perhaps get some cabbage and broccoli  started for late summer and autumn.
Mid May is ok for direct sowing of peas, maincrop carrots, French and runner beans so no rush for those, if you're short of compost/pots for early sowing at home.
Good luck!

[jambop]

Just an opinion but I think that people who have a planting diary ,timetable or regimen call it what you will are about to find out that you can very successfully grow lots of vegs planting at times you thought were to late to get a good crop.
I do know from my experience down here that I have to grow some crops at what might be considered too late in the season purely because of the summer heat. I have to add that the available light here is a bit different to back in the UK and because of this combined with slightly warmer temperatures some things do well over  autumn /winter.

[Growster...]

I've been hardening off tomatoes, and yesterday, popped them in outside in their pots of soil/compost.

They're under cover at night, but I reckon spring has been kinder this year, and anyway, I need the space, so thirty-two plants are now on holiday for the rest of the summer - lucky them!

But the GH radish are the best we've ever managed, so is the lettuce and rocket!

Some you win etc etc...

[jambop]

I've been hardening off tomatoes, and yesterday, popped them in outside in their pots of soil/compost.

They're under cover at night, but I reckon spring has been kinder this year, and anyway, I need the space, so thirty-two plants are now on holiday for the rest of the summer - lucky them!

But the GH radish are the best we've ever managed, so is the lettuce and rocket!

Some you win etc etc...

I have only just started hardening my tomatoes Growster. I have fewer this year 10 San marzano, 10 Roma, 5 Piccolo, and 5 beefmaster I have a half dozen St Pierre that I started late and do not know if I will use them. The weather is fine here at the moment 30C today but some strong gusts of wind expected tonight and early morning. My lettuce is getting scoffed by snails and slugs but I have had some lovely radish and lambs lettuce.