Planting out courgettes and squash...

[Jonnyt]

I've had two out for the past two weeks. So far I've harvested six Courgettes and probably another two will be harvested today.

The plants are absolutely massive!

[Scarlet]

My courgettes and cucs spent their first night in the GH instead of a bedroom window and this morning it looks like I've lost my cucs they're very floppy and the courgettes don't look to good either

Same here Bren I have a very open garden. Cues have been in the GH for a few nights and they aren't looking good. I have put a 'sacrificial' courgette out but I've got it under a large cloche. The days have been really sunny here but the night time temps have been very cold.

[Bren In Pots]

Scarlett it was a low of 6.5c in GH over night so not freezing but just cold enough to make them go floppy I should have left them on the bedroom window.

[VolesAteMyPeas]

Thanks everyone. Looks like I'll be waiting then! Like Bren and Scarlet, it's not freezing but does get down to about 6 or 7 at night and my site is very windswept. I don't have large enough cloches for them either. Maybe in a fortnight....
Here's hoping!

[1Bee]

Mine have been in the back yard in a cold frame for a month or so, with the frame fully open during the day for the last fortnight. They look pretty robust, but we'll see.... Good luck everyone!

[KairdiffKid]

In South Wales (so probably a bit warmer) my courgettes and pumpkins are already out in cloches. One courgette is doing very well, the other is a bit less happy (got a bit too dry on a warm sunny day). The pumpkins have been in for a week and seem far happier now than they did stuck in pots in the cold frame.

Outdoor cucumbers have just gone out in a cheapo mini-polytunnel.

[maverick451]

Ive found that keeping tender stuff on the dry side seems to help them early season

I gave some tomato plants to a friend down the road, we both planted them out about a week ago and his garden is warmer than mine but he kept his tomotoes a bit wet and they look terrible.

[Bren In Pots]

Scarlett it was a low of 6.5c in GH over night so not freezing but just cold enough to make them go floppy I should have left them on the bedroom window.

After a couple of hours my cucs picked up hope its not set them back too much.

[VolesAteMyPeas]

Well, thanks again. I decided not to plant out today. And thank God for that. We have 40 mph winds. I dug in the manure for their pits though. Planted out my sunflowers too although I doubt they'll be there next time I look given the wind! Sweetcorn not looking happy but not dead. Courgettes and squash happily sheltered in pots in my back yard.

[Philthy]

maverick451
Ive found that keeping tender stuff on the dry side seems to help them early season

I gave some tomato plants to a friend down the road, we both planted them out about a week ago and his garden is warmer than mine but he kept his tomotoes a bit wet and they look terrible

2nd that.

I moved cucumbers out to the GH two weeks ago (much earlier last year but then this spring seems to have taken on a cool note after the balmy April). In the day time when the sun is out the GH quickly warms up to mid 20's celcius, but by dawn the following day it's decidedly chilly in there. Rather than keep the pots perpetually moist (conditions the plants will relish when they are much bigger), for now light watering seems to suit the cooler temperatures much better.
A stake - e.g. a flower stick, small cane - to support the young plant also helps prevent it drooping and it *should* recover quicker if it does decide to sulk a bit.

[batman]

Mine are still cosy in the greenhouse. But then I really rushed it too much last year, and lost several plants. This year I'll let them grow a bit bigger in the gh and wait till it's less miserable outside.

[Ian_5]

mine have been in a fairly cool greenhouse a couple of weeks now and seem to be doing ok (they came from a room in the house that wasn't all that hot either, i figured at least they'd get more sun in the GH)... going to have to move them on before long or i'll be out of space in the green house...