Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: wildseed on February 19, 2012, 11:02
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being new to polytunnel growing ??? is there owt i can start now? as i am going stir crazy and my little swamp duck keeps finding stuff for me to do ::)
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yeh you can put a few tom's, aubs and chillis in now!
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Not if you've got no heating you can't!
Do you have any wildseed?
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yeh but the veg i mentioned can be propagated on windowsills
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The OP is obviously looking to get out of the house & away from his swamp duck!
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wild seed what type of crops are you looking at growing in your polytunnel this year?
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I've started off some early spuds in my tunnel today, with some fleece over the top of course. I've also sown lettuce, radish, spring onion, mangetout, kohl rabi in there. And I've got a few strawberries in there for early fruit.
I've also started off my onion, aubergines, sweet pepper and chilli seeds, but all of those are in the house right now. I'll be moving the onion seedlings in the tunnel fairly soon, because the temperatures are getting up nicely in this area. And I'll be starting off my tomato seeds next week.
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my thermometer said 31C just now, but also showed the minimum overnight was 0C.
So there won't be much going on in my greenhouse for a while :nowink:
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i wish i had the same patience as you MOS, as soon as the seeds are in the shops i can resist the temptation to sow.
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As you get older & wiser, you learn that patience is one of the main ingredients to successful growing.
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to be honest i dont think i'll ever be patient. :)
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If you carry on losing plants in one way or another, you do learn not to sow too early.
Yes, the odd thing or 2 - but you will know the chances are you may lose them, but you do it on the off-chance you'll be lucky now and again ;)
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As you get older & wiser, you learn that patience is one of the main ingredients to successful growing.
Awww yusss 8)
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In the past week I've sown early peas and lambs lettuce in mine...
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I have broad beans planted which were sown at home under light and warmth, then hardened them off in the conservatory (as there is no heating in there :tongue2:). Also planted some round seeded peas there which I also sowed at home. I think the only problem I think I may have is the darn rabbits on the plot behind us .... they have a ruddy warren underneath their plot for pete's sake! >:(
So am going to visit the tunnel at the weekend to see if they are still alive or whether the darn rabbits have got to them.
I reckon I may be sowing more seeds this weekend. :(
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Is it 'pea' time yet DD? Have mangetout and sugarsnaps I'm just itching to sow in loo rolls for planting in pots... :wub:
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I'm waiting another month.
Daren't set foot on my plot yet - too wet and cold and it rained today!
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Ta muchly DD! :)
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Tempted to start stuff off this coming weekend. Got a nifty heated propogator being delivered and have a heated greenhouse... the temptation is almost crippling!
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If you've got the facilities, there's no problem
You can start off chillies, peppers, tomatoes, aubergines etc., as you have somewhere to put them once grown. Some are tempted to start early then find they have nowhere to put the plants as it still too cold.
Brassicas are forbidden in heated propagators, but you knew that. ;)
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The temptation has been to much for me, got early beets showing already ::) Will put small poly tunnel up on salad bed this week, with all this sunshine should warm the ground up lovely . hopefully in enough time to put beets out in a cpl of weeks and some early carrots under the same cover, see how the weather goes