Firstly a heartfelt grumble - isn't this the time of year when the grass
stops growing and starts to turn brown, and all the vegetable thrive in
the sun but need careful watering?

Huh?

So to planting and sowing guidelines.

The guidelines for grass seed say spring or preferably September.
You could sow seed now and be pretty sure it would establish easily with
minimum watering and be quite happily settling in by the end of June.

Seed packets in general show sowing and planting out schedules but for the
last two years everything has been late and some crops planted up to a
month after the recommended time have done far better than those planted
'to schedule'.

A lot of people report two or three attempts before getting their seeds
started.

Is it time to incorporate minimum temperatures for successful sowing,
especially out doors in the final location, and maximum temperature and
hours of sunlight to stop sowing outdoors?

Seems to me that these days you can plant anything including bare root
trees and shrubs all the way through spring and autumn and probably get
away with it throughout the summer.

The old gardening guidelines seem to have more or less gone out of the
window.

Oh, and the Allotment Society annual produce show is coming up shortly.

As far as I can see, apart from quick growing salad crops and greenhouse
crops (which aren't really the main point of allotment growing) there
isn't much approaching maturity.

Wimbledon fortnight is almost upon us.
This obviously means rain, but should also mean hot sunny days.


Grumble.

No doubt a sunny week will cheer me up.

Cheers

Dave R

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:03:49 +0000, David.WE.Roberts wrote:

Firstly a heartfelt grumble - isn't this the time of year when the grass
stops growing and starts to turn brown, and all the vegetable thrive in
the sun but need careful watering?

Huh?

So to planting and sowing guidelines.

The guidelines for grass seed say spring or preferably September.
You could sow seed now and be pretty sure it would establish easily with
minimum watering and be quite happily settling in by the end of June.

Seed packets in general show sowing and planting out schedules but for
the last two years everything has been late and some crops planted up to
a month after the recommended time have done far better than those
planted 'to schedule'.

A lot of people report two or three attempts before getting their seeds
started.

Is it time to incorporate minimum temperatures for successful sowing,
especially out doors in the final location, and maximum temperature and
hours of sunlight to stop sowing outdoors?

Seems to me that these days you can plant anything including bare root
trees and shrubs all the way through spring and autumn and probably get
away with it throughout the summer.

The old gardening guidelines seem to have more or less gone out of the
window.

Oh, and the Allotment Society annual produce show is coming up shortly.

As far as I can see, apart from quick growing salad crops and greenhouse
crops (which aren't really the main point of allotment growing) there
isn't much approaching maturity.

Wimbledon fortnight is almost upon us.
This obviously means rain, but should also mean hot sunny days.


Grumble.

No doubt a sunny week will cheer me up.


Flaming July :-)