[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

Is anybody else finding that everything is sulking?

I'm on the coast in Littlehampton, and I planted out my courgettes, and squashes about 2-3 weeks ago, but nothing has happened, and temperatures are going to drop to about 5 degrees at night next week for a few days.....

Blinking weather in the this country drives you mad!!

[mumofstig]

It sure does!

[DD.]

You're lucky you've planted them out. Mine are sitting on the driveway sulking!

[mumofstig]

Netweather is also showing the low temps for next week - but I find their temperatures reliably well on the low side for here, compared to actual.

[mjpalin]

My squashes / Courgettes etc, haven't even made it out, so they're still relatively happy in the cold frame.
Runner beans on the other hand are seriously sulking, and have also been eaten to death by the slugs despite my best efforts with blue pellets of death!

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

Will you still get a decent crop if they get going mid-late June?

[MalcW]

There are a few threads at the moment about things not progressing well, which is good news for me.

Why is that, I hear you asking.

It's because this is my first year, and I'm having the same problems. I thought I was probably a rubbish gardener, but perhaps it's not all my fault. Then again...

[beesrus]

Lots of time for big harvests yet Wizzy. As a for instance, last year, I only planted out my courgettes on 3 June ( sown 10 May ) and started harvesting on 13 July, and that went on for months given the nice Summer.
The thing I try to avoid is a backlog of keeping too many plants in too small a pot for too long when the weather is not deemed warm enough to plant out. I'm a big fan of getting those plants out into open play asap on a decent day, even if you have to protect them with a fleece for a few days to avoid winds and general shock. At least then they have something to work with. It warms up sooner or later.

[Nobbie]

I'm just about to harvest my first courgette I have cheated a bit though by making a sort of hot bed arrangement out of a old crate that they deliver paving stone in. Filled with fresh horse manure and added my own homemade 'accelerator' It never seemed to get that warm, but obviously enough to stop them sulking. I'd add a picture, but I'm not sure I can without uploading them to a separate hosting site.

[Paul Plots]

Is anybody else finding that everything is sulking?

I'm on the coast in Littlehampton, and I planted out my courgettes, and squashes about 2-3 weeks ago, but nothing has happened, and temperatures are going to drop to about 5 degrees at night next week for a few days.....

Blinking weather in the this country drives you mad!!

Fear not wizzyfax. You're not the only one. I'm seriously considering sulking myself. I'm just a few miles west of you and doing no better. Today's This afternoon's sunshine might help us out a bit.

But my tomatoes are smaller now than they were a few weeks ago (is that possible), the geraniums are far too tiny to be planted out, the French and runner beans are limping (no running anywhere), butternut squash has aphids so too weak to plant out. The list goes on.

If nothing else we could always get a drink and sit on the sea-front and hope. 

[spuriousmonkey]

half my living room and my entire kitchen table are taken over by tomatoes, cucumbers, chillies, paprika, and eggplant.

And they all look depressed because they haven't seen the sun for 3 days now.

[sunshineband]

Today has been marginally better and so some of my tomato plants are now in the ground at the plot, in sheltered spot 

And runner beans have started curling up their poles I noticed, so perhaps things are improving slowly 

[Chrysalis]

Same here!  Sulking plants and sulking Chrysalis...

I wondered if was the compost not being too good this year, even though it's my usual.  Toms are tiny and not doing much.  Peppers are OK but v.small and have teeny weeny peppers on them!
Squashes are out and beans are, like others', being eaten despite protection.  Even the hens are sulking and have sneezes, poor old dears!

Just hope the sparrows don't eat all the peas before flowers appear.  No sign yet of them, nor on the spuds.  Really feel I've missed out this year, but that's growing, I suppose.

Maybe next season I'll not catch the mother of all chest infections at the wrong time and get my act together!

On the bright side:  my clematis are lovely!

[pigguns]

4 more huge pumpkins sent out into the big wide plot all on their own today.... there is just no space left at home, the cues & butternuts need it.  5 lots of various Beans in washing up bowls, tubs, big plastic crates are doing really well, but slug-central at the plot is putting me off until they are soooo far off the ground the slugs will get altitude sickness! 
My 2 sowing of brassicas ready but waiting for the autumn broadies to finish in the next fortnight....
I've noticed the texture of cheap compost this year (my usual) is exactly the same as the free stuff we can get from the tip from the food waste collections, has not been so before!  It's got not nutrients at all.  I've been adding FBB or feed.

And they all look depressed because they haven't seen the sun for 3 days now.

I'm depressed because I've not seen the sun.....

[Fairy Plotmother]

I'm afraid I'm sulking along with any of my plants that have made it past the seedling stage.....and they are few and far between!