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Bob Hobden wrote:
(it's a damned shame, cos I'm not going to have any seeds to plant in
Feb, but I don't think I can keep the plants growing till it's safe to
put them out!)
You plant them in February? How do you keep them warm and with enough
space
until June when you can plant them out?

I think I plant my first batch of courgettes and squashes in Feb, yes.
I could be mis-remembering. They go in pots on the window sill, then
out into the greenhouse. Iirc, they get planted out in about April.

Of course, this could be why I tend to lose a lot of them. :-/
(but normally to snails, and from planting them out when they are too
small, rather than from frost!)


Crikey! Here in N. Wilts I don't even start mine in seed trays in the
greenhouse until late May. They always catch up anyway, and we have had
140 lbs of winter squash this year, and about 20 lbs of pumpkins and
marrows and other earlier perishers. Being short of storage space, I have
to store the winter squashes on newspaper on the floor under the dining
room table, so no dinner parties until next spring.

That's what I thought, we start ours about the same time, end of April
beginning of May and they are still a bit big by the time we plant out some
years (Chelsea time)

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London.