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Posted by ahopefulagain (U4594275) on Sunday, 18th April 2010
When is it time to sow all the above inside and when if I sow them direct outside?
It seems crazy to think about this when the daffs are still in full bloom, but it's like June out there already!
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Runner beans, courgettes squashes I have started in the greenhouse and they are through already!. Never done sweetcorn so no idea. I rarely sow direct outside but I'm sure someone else will reply
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It really depends where you are in the UK. Remember that you cannot sow or plant outside if there is any danger of frost. So there is no point in starting sowing too early in a greenhouse if it will be too cold to plant them outside.
Most people will sow inside towards the end of April and plant outside at end of May, with cloche protection if in the North of the UK.
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Look in the alphabetical index here and all will be revealed;
but it's like June out there already!Â
and it was like March today ( at least here it was!)but that's the UK weather for you!
Plants have a way of catching up but not if you are too early off the mark!
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We're in the south east, so we normally don't get frost after mid April, although it's still too cold at night I'm sure!
Tee Gee - it was shorts, sunhats and sun block all round for us today!
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Depends on the seeds you have. The distructions on the packet are a good guide as to when to sow, plant out etc...
Also depends where you live, the weather can be very different in the North compared to the South, East and West. Some area's had snow only a couple of weeks ago. Where I am in the North, there's still frost over night.
Courgettes I sowed indoors mid March it's an early variety but can't go out until May.
Only sowed sweet corn last Tuesday indoors and they can't go out till May but most have germinated.
Don't know about runner beans or squashes. Some veg though requires a long growing season, the ones you ask about I suspect do, hence the reason they are sown indoors or in heated GH.
I would suggest you get a good book to compliment the good advise from the message boards. There is a thread running on the alloment message board asking about which books gardeners refer to most, worth checking out.
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I sowed all my squashes and courgettes about a month ago in propagators...then pricked them out into pots last weekend. They're currently in the greenhouse although I'll move them to the cold frame sometime in the next 2 weeks.
Runnerbeans I'll sow in 2 weeks, even in the south(East) we can get frosts up until the last week in May - I lost 90% of my apple crop 2 years ago due to a late May frost.
So Runnerbeans won't go out until the 3rd week in May, and sweetcorn about 3 weeks later.
Runnerbeans take about 20 days to reach about 16" tall in root trainers. Swwetcorn takes about 5 days to germinate and then requires pricking out and growing on for another 2 weeks or so before planting out.
Dwarf fench beans were sown last weekend and are now breaking through. As they're hardier than runner beans they'll go in the cold frame later this week and then be planted out about 14 days later.
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courgettes, squashes, runner beans, sweetcorn etc
courgettes, squashes are usually transplanted 4 weeks after your last frost date.
corn runner beans can direct seeded a few day after your last frost date.
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Posted by mischievousLottyman (U14137418) on Sunday, 18th April 2010
Good advice from Zoomer, I would treat runner beans and squashes the same, don't risk planting out until you are sure that frosts have finished.
Couple of books to recommend;
The Allotment Handbook-----Caroline Foley
Grow Your Own Veg----Carol Klein
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Taking risks, yesterday I put out my french beans in the open ground with a cloche over; but have another batch in pots lest they should come to a sticky/chilly end.
The courgettes are in bud in the unheated greenhouse and cucumbers are shooting out their second true leaves,
In the heated potting shed, sweetcorn is 1" or so in the root trainer, melons are sprouting their true leaves.
In the ground the meteor peas (earlies) have been outside for 1week now and have little flower buds growing each day, broad beans doing likewise.
For some very risky I know but sometimes the risk pays off.
Loving it all,
south coast gardener
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Posted by preciousblossum (U13870137) on Monday, 19th April 2010
hopefull i have peppers growing but wont put outside untill june also have not grown any courgettes yet as i personally think its to early and would not sow any runnerbeans becase there was frost on my bin last night.
it maybe t shirt weather in the day but at night its still freezeing
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I'm not rushing to sow these crops yet. I'm in Devon, but even here there has still been frost on the ground and on the car in the early mornings as recently as a couple of days ago.
If you sow them too soon, even in pots, they are big enough to need to go into the ground before the ground is really warm enough. With French beans, I've found that a later sowing did far better than an earlier one. I might start some in pots in another week or so, but they're not going into the ground (as seedlings or as seeds) until at least the middle of May.
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