I want to get my pumpkins out!

All my plants have gone out today; they've been hardening off outside for a week or so and the soil on the allotment has been covered. Last year the squashes, cucumbers and courgettes took quite a while to get going, but when they did they were fantastically productive. The mange tout have already got off to a good start and the strawberries are looking good.

Our tomatoes, courgettes, runner beans and lettuces all went out last week, but we did cover them with fleece for a couple of nights.seem to be doing well.Wish the weather would warm up again though.

Anya Your title was almost on a par with katek 's brother's "How big are your tiramisus?" -

All of mine are outside now, still unplanted, but get fleeced at night. I shall plant them at the end of the week. Push your hand down into the soil, anya. If it doesn't feel cold, it should be ok. Most areas have their last frosts by mid may, but it doesn't mean that the soil will be warm enough for them to get growing.

We are in Herts. and took our courgettes and butternut squash out of the greenhouse last week. They are now in growbags on a sort of raised platform that DH made out of pallets. They are on a very sheltered patio.
We keep the tomatoes in the greenhouse all season.

Shysal, you have reminded me, I put up the fleece for several days before planting to allow the soil to warm up.

Absolutely everything out, pumpkins, courgettes, runner beans, peas, sweet peas, pelargoniums, everything except a few tomato plants, two cucumber and two melon which are in the greenhouse....

I have six Gardeners Delight tomato plants in my potting shed. When I put them out they go against the south facing wall of the house which does act like a radiator once the sun gets to it.

I need to think about how to rig up a tent type cover to support some fleece over them. I will let my brain have ago at that while I do other things.

I dont want a disaster like last years crop.

I have a collapsible fruit cage but I need that soon for the blueberries.

Everything's going out today - tomatoes, courgettes, beans, peas.

I've got dh to help - a rare occurrence. So if they don't make it, well, tough. But I'm in London, and in a sheltered garden. [fingers crossed emoticon]

Within an hour of planting out my module-grown runner beans we had a very heavy hail storm (not forecast). They went very limp but have survived despite tattered leaves.
The courgette plants have been out for a few weeks, but haven't grown at all! Will I never learn that it is far better to wait for the soil to warm up?

Hahahahaha!! Make sure they're well covered with the fleece!

I don't know what you mean Katy my pumpkins are very precious to me, I have nurtured them from seeds. The thought of them shrivelling up in the cold is horrific.

So I'm just going to risk planting two out, but well fleeced as pompa suggested.

I'm in Panto mode.....that was a definite "oo-er missus" moment!

Thanks Nellie

Digging about to try and find the weeks weather for my tomato plants I have just seen this site.

It claims to do it by postcode.

www.theweatheroutlook.com/forecast/uk/London-Gatwick-Airport

You can change the location input by putting in your own postcode.

Oh, those sort of pumkins Put mine out (N. Essex) last week, but put fleece over them.

You could be talking about my conservatory Liz and it's in and out, in and out, with trays of seedlings at this time of year.

Think I'll risk the sweet corn out this week and just repot the pumpkins into bigger pots for now. Same with spaghetti squash.

All my stuff is out on the allotment now. We are in the north west but the allotments are surrounded by trees and seem to always be a bit warmer than the surrounding area.
We got to the stage where our conservatory had become a very expensive and crowded greenhouse and we wanted to reclaim it to sit in!
I put the corn in a few weeks ago and then the weather turned colder but it seems to have survived.

That title sound like something on a Benny Hill show.

It probable depends on where you live and how sheltered your garden is and many other such microclimate in the garden stuff.

Right now I am having the same thoughts about my tomato plants. Last year after a warm May I put them out and there were a few very cold nights in early June. All my tomato plants went blue and never thrived at all.
The meter reader who had to walk past my shrivelled tomatoes to get to the meter boxes asked what had happened to my poor plants.

The Midlands.

They have been hardened off during the day.

Depends what part of the uk you are in..