I've got behind...

[glut]

Have I got behind or am I just paranoid?!

My tomatoes are all still only 6" high in pots on the windowsill. My beans are only about 3" high in the little greenhouse. My cucumbers (sown on the 7th May after my first ones got eaten by slugs!) haven't germinated. My courgettes have just got first true leaf and my gerkins are about an inch high...

I feel as if I have got behind and am trying to resist going to the garden centre and buying some small plants while I can...is it okay or am I right to feel like I have got behind

[ckfe]

if you're behind then i must be VERY behind, my tomatoes are only 1/2 inch tall

[porterlizz]

If we get the heatwave we're being told about I'm sure you'll be fine

(some of my tomatoes are smaller than 6" by the way)

[scarey55]

Mine too, I was worrying a bit but as everyone else has said, I'm sure they'll catch up. I think the GC's started theirs off much earlier and under artificial conditions - that's why they are so big.

Here's to a LONG hot summer

[Amanda1]

I'm hoping it's a hot summer, my aubergines and chillies have only just been pricked out and have been the same size for ages, my tomatoes have just been potted up into 2 litre polybags, my sweetcorn (second attempt) is about 2 inches high, my leeks haven't put on any growth for about a month and many of my herbs are still waiting to germinate. Nothing is actually planted in the ground yet apart from garlic and onions. My beans and peas are hardening off as are my courgettes and pumpkins. I started a thread on here asking about cheap heating for my greenhouse as I was getting paranoid that my plants would run out of time to ripen before the growing season was over. I was reassured that there's not much point starting things off too early as things will struggle to survive. I may start my chillies, peppers and aubergines off earlier in the house next year but otherwise I'm just going to see what happens. I don't want to worry too much about it as it takes some of the enjoyment away from growing my own. Having said that, I am sitting at work wondering if the slug/snail(s) I couldn't find this morning and which had been eating my sweetcorn in the greenhouse is doing yet more damage!

[glut]

okay, I will not fret anymore and trust that the sun will shine and that everything will grow when it needs to. Thanks.

[Mchanen]

I've had to re-sow some courgette seeds as my last lot didn't do to well, so if you're behing so am i lol- at least courgettes grow quickly once they get going!

[taff]

Don't panic, May is about the time to sow things that are frost-intolerant, like beans, sweetcorn, pumpkins, courgettes etc.
Your beans will shoot up when the weather gets warmer, so will your toms. It's still a bit cooler where you are too, so give it a few weeks
P.S. My aubergines are about 2 inches high, but the one I bought for comparison in the GC is about 6"

[Flummery]

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get you!

Many of my toms are only 6" - my cucurbits only have their first true leaf - lots of the beans are only just coming through in their pots in the cold greenhouse (the ones in pots outside aren't through at all) - and I've yet to sow my cucumbers. Don't be bullied into buying stuff because the GC plants are artificually raised with extra heat. Don't think you're behind because people in the Sunny South have had their beans out for ages.

Last year in late May (Night of May 19th - 20th) there was a hard frost in the East Midlands - we were travelling to the airport in the early hours and it was scarey to watch the crystalline mists rolling in and the grass whitening up. I'm happy to play catch up and have strong if slightly later crops.

[maytreefrannie]

I feel everyone is way ahead of me, I'm just hoping the plants will catch up with good weather.

6 cordon tomato seeds sown 6th March - 3 germinated, the biggest plant of them is 5"
15 Tumbling Toms sown 11th March - all germinated, all are about 2" tall but looking healthy.

Courgettes - titchy.
Squashes - about 3" high.

All look healthy but I can't help asking myself - is there something I don't know?

[Lottieknees]

seemingly then size matters even in gardening eh. Well i learn something new every day.

[HeyWayne]

If you're behind I'm in reverse gear!

I caved in and bought two tomato plants in Homebase the other day - "just in case".

Madniss!

[maytreefrannie]

If you're behind I'm in reverse gear!

I caved in and bought two tomato plants in Homebase the other day - "just in case".

Madniss!

Me too - I bought two in Lidl a few days ago - they looked a bit lanky but perked up really nicely as soon as they got into the mini greenhouse.

They're the only decent sized tomato plants here, I'm thinking of putting them on display outside the front door.

[zazen999]

WOW

Flum quoting Nirvana.

Respect

*Bows and does the 'we aren't worthy thing from Bill and Ted'*

[amandaandherveg]

I caved in and bought two tomato plants in Homebase the other day - "just in case".

I was in a GC today with a non gardening pal. She was attracted to a small pot with a bush type tom growing in it. It was covered in green and red cherry toms - oh yes, they were charging £14.99!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!