My question about planting seeds to soon on this forum...well the answer was yes :'( It got a bit to cold and I was at work there was nothing I could do. I lost all my green beans all but 1 squash and 2 zuccs and all cucumbers. They were all doing very well up until 3 nights ago. But my onions are still going strong. have 66 of them But enough about the sad stuff I had a plan B :-D I have a whole set of back ups of everything I lost plus peppers, toms, herbs, brocc, and pickling cucs doing awesome on shelves with grow lights in my garage :-D I guess that is the price we pay for experimenting! I am just glade I thought ahead and set up shop in a warm garage just in case. This was my first year growing from seed so now next year I will know.. Isn't learning fun!
Every year is different with gardening, and for me, especially seed sowing. I used to start my toms and peppers in the warm conservatory in early January. I would then have to deal with a lot of leggy plants in large pots through until May when finally it was safe to get them in the ground. Now I don't bother sowing until March, and I am still picking masses of fruit in mid summer. Peppers however, I really should start earlier as I never get a massive harvest from them as our summers come to an end so soon. Squash and beans I never ever start until April, it is just to nippy here in Essex, and again, I end up with loads of huge plants which are struggling and I am certain they suffer a check when planted out. Hardier seeds though, get them in! All being well this weekend, half term permitting, I will sow in modules, spinach, chard, beetroots, lettuce, spring onions, some hardier flowers, and I have some window box type troughs which I will sow some cut and come again leaves in and some radish and they will stay in the warm greenhouse to give us some early salads. Of course, for us, this has been a nippy early spring, and a very wet one so far, but if it had been milder, then I would have been on the allotment a lot more and would have sown spinach, beets and onions under cloches by now.
