@charles_dowding: 🌱 Timing is everything. I took a gamble with timing with these courgettes, I sowed them early or earlier than I would normally, roughly 8th of April instead of 20th of April. They were ready to go in the ground maybe 2nd of May, something like that. My last frost date is middle of May, so they're prone to frost if it happens and it did happen. On the 6th of May, we had a freezing morning here and these survived and that's because we had not only this quite thin fleece over, but another one on top. So that's an example of how you can protect plants against frost and having the hoops also helps because that keeps the fleece not touching leaves, which is where you get the stalk scorching sometimes. Filmed 20th May #courgettes #garlic #kurisquash #growyourownvegetables #growyourownfood #fyp

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