Vegetable Growing 2025

Tunnel cloches or 'crossed fingers' ?

 

Just squash and corn with fleece over them. I'll probably put a fleece cloche over the tomatillos tomorrow if I can. The tomatoes are fending for themselves. Forecast is good though

 

Ive had some squashes and tomatillo planted out for about a week but we are right in the south. They do seem to grow faster on my windowsill though Needs about 10 at night consistently for good growth I think

Mine dont germinate at all outdoors though. That definately needs heat

 

All my beans are outside now - Purple French beans, Borlotti beans and some bush beans. They all germinated really quickly on a North facing windowsill and had to go out before they got too lanky.
I've got two types of courgette developing well and hope to put them out in the next week or so. I cleared the raised bed for them yesterday. We've got rain forecast for Monday or Tuesday, though the forecast keeps changing, but if we get it then I will plant them out immediately afterwards.
I've been eating my spinach beet; the plants are about a year old and the leaves are looking great at the moment, nothing much is attacking them. I've just bought a Daubenton's Kale plant to add to to my greens supply.
My tomatoes are not doing very well. All my seedlings are still tiny. This time this year I was putting some outside - rather prematurely as it turned out, but they were all fine in the end and I got loads of tomatoes.

 

Well, it depends on what you look at, I've been caught before !
https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/forecast/uk/glasgow

 

Its always night temperatures or cloudy days that worry me regarding planting out tender stuff, admittedly a couple of weeks hardening off before hand really helps but I've been caught out before by a cold cloudy week in June.

Once things stall they they get set back and take a fair time to get started again I find.

I take weather forecasts with a pinch of salt.

 

Repotted leeks. Greenhouse is a bit full now. Scapes just forming on the earliest garlic

 

Harvested our first ever cauli after being here since 1978!
The leaves are brilliant as well and are now being cooked for later.
Magnificent.

 

On the Allotments, I am just putting up my cage to protect the brassicas. I have Broccoli, Cauliflower, cabbage and sprouts waiting to go in, but I dare not plant without the protection or the pigeons will strip them as soon as I leave them. Still picking Asparagus, but it's slowing down now.

 

I've never planted out Toms until very late May or June, the weather is due to turn at the end of next week and not sure what we will get, warm and damp is probably OK but if it turns cold and wet for a week or more it could be a problem.

 

You take your own chances but the forecast here (est 60m SW of you?) is wet and warm, higher nighttime than recently. Praying the rain does come......

 

Several people on my Allotment site have planted tomatoes outside, they (the tomatoes) are not looking happy. Mine are still in pots in the greenhouse, I haven't even transfered the indoor ones to the Quadgrow pots yet. Only because I'm too busy with other things.

 

Mine were planted out last week. Best may weather that I can remember, otherwise I'd have repotted them and kept them in the gh for another couple of weeks

Sown carrots and beetroot this week. Carrots direct sown between rows of garlic, beetroot multisown in modules and will be planted between more garlic in about a month, they will be harvested probably two weeks after that, weather depending

 

First time growing squash (Winter Squash). I feel like these look a bit pathetic and really pale, but I don't know what they should look like. Any tips?

 

Yes they do look a bit yellow, I would only have one plant per pot and fill the pots to about half inch from the top.
The yellow is probably down to the rubbish compost we all have to deal with these days.

So I would repot for a while and get some good roots forming before planting out.