[puffinstuff]

I've got my squash and Courgettes growing in the greenhouse.  Would it be okay to put them outside now.  Going to grow them on top of builders bag full of compost.  I live in the south east.

[bravemurphy]

I am going to start mine on the weekend but if they were through I would not put them out yet without protection still freezing in the nights here.

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

I'm in littlehampton on south coast and its still been getting very close to freezing at night.

2 degrees tonight according to met office.

Middle of way without protection, even later if frosts still possible.

[simonwatson]

One frost and they're toast. I won't even be sowing mine for at least a week.

[Madame Cholet]

mine won't go out till end of May in Northants

[angelavdavis]

I always leave mine until end of May - even though I am also on the South Coast.  They are usually in 12 inch pots by then and some have flowers on them!  I did this last year and am glad I did - the other plotholders put theirs in, lured by the warm weather, and then we had a cold snap and the squashes sulked, with many being eaten by slugs and never recovering.

[surbie100]

End of May for me too. Only 3 of us on my field waited last year, we were the only ones with courgettes and squash..

[JayG]

3 years ago I would have said 3rd or last week of May around here, but there have been early June frosts (or very near misses) in the last couple of years, so I will be carefully scanning the weather forecasts and then crossing everything when I finally take the plunge this year.

At the moment all the tender crops destined for outdoors are still in their packets, but not for much longer!

[compostqueen]

Mine are still in the packets.  I lost my entire crop of courgettes, squashes and beans one year on the weekend of the 4th and 5th June    I haven't made the same mistake again. It's a hard lesson to learn after you've tended those delicate babies for weeks. Sigh

Check online your last projected frost date for your postcode. Metcheck I think it's called

[mumofstig]

There's this
http://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/adjust-dates-uk.php

but it seems very over optimistic to me 

[JayG]

It's already wrong for this year isn't it Mum! 

I've tried the "gardenaction.co.uk" one and I can't get it to work at all (possibly just as well!)

[mumofstig]

not that one looks as if it's been taken over by advertising, and won't let you set your dates 
Ring any bells? 

[JayG]

It's definitely changed a lot since I last looked at it, which is a shame as I always thought it was one of the better ones for gardening info. 

Doesn't seem to be any way of registering to access the feature so it's a bit of mystery to me. 

[Salmo]

Mine are still in the packets.  I lost my entire crop of courgettes, squashes and beans one year on the weekend of the 4th and 5th June    I haven't made the same mistake again. It's a hard lesson to learn after you've tended those delicate babies for weeks. Sigh

Check online your last projected frost date for your postcode. Metcheck I think it's called

As a moderator it would be a good example to others if you put your location in your profile.

[BabbyAnn]

In the past I've usually been so busy getting lots of other stuff done that before I know it, it is the 2nd or start of the 3rd week of June when I tell myself that I just HAVE to plant the squash plants that weekend     As it seemed to work well, it's become traditional to plant them then