Showing posts with label frost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frost. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2013

Fingers crossed no more frosts

19th May. According to local weather records, we should be past the last frost by now so I've been leaving the front open on my growhouse for a week or so. Over the weekend, I planted out my sweetcorn, courgettes and runner beans.

10th June. Well, it's now 3 weeks later and we didn't have any frosts! Of the 18 sweetcorn plants, 2 got a bit eaten (slugs maybe, sparrows more likely) and 1 has completely disappeared. However, I'm pleased to say the others are all doing well. The courgettes are all doing well and have lots of flowers forming. The runner beans are more variable - 1 seems to be a non-starter, while another 2 are romping ahead.


Sweetcorn, just planted out
Sweetcorn, 3 weeks later

Courgettes, just planted out
Courgettes, 3 weeks later

Runner beans, just planted out



Runner beans, 3 weeks later



Monday, April 2, 2012

Frost!


Given the schizophrenic weather we're having at the moment (I had to scrape ice off my windscreen this morning - was in shorts yesterday!) I thought I'd better protect my seedlings a bit, time for a fleece covering: