Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: ricky on November 01, 2016, 20:46
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Hi guy I'm still picking my ferline tomatoes in November the mild weather is keeping them well in the tunnel can anyone beat this. Ricky
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Well, yes, I can. Although, I'll concede that it's hardly a fair contest given you're in Nthn Ireland and I'm in SW France. My outside tomatoes still going strong but there's no doubt that another 2 weeks should see night-time temps too low for them to continue.
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I've still got Black cherry toms ripening, but expect them to be frosted within the next few - considering the forecasts :(
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I picked the rest of mine today, both red and green. We are supposed to get frost tonight, so I'm not chancing it!
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Still got some in the greenhouse (unheated)
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Collected my last few red tomatoes from the allotment greenhouses today, plus a few peppers and a couple of aubergines. And a few just-about -edible runner beans, enough for a couple of servings. Mainly spent time collecting some 100 or so dahlias, as frost forecast for early tomorrow morning - there have been so many of them, for so long, that it's almost a mercy to imagine the 15 or so large dahlia plants reduced to a black frosted mush in a couple of days time, complete with the 100+ remaining partly grown blooms!
(Did I really say such a dreadful thing!?!? I'm already mourning the departure of the extraordinarily warm and often bright September and October, and dreading the onset of winter, but you can get a bit worn down dealing with gluts, even if it's such lovely things as giant dahlias!)
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Dang I thought in my wee micro climate in the valley I was the only one but bring on the new season thanks for your replies guy's Ricky.
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Still got a few of pounds of a rogue Crimson Crush happily ripening down on The Patch.
One looks absolutely perfect, so if the weather does get too cold, he'll come home with his mates...
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Picked my last few tomatoes today from my unheated greenhouse. A couple were ripe but few green to picked them all and called it a day. Surprised to have been able to pick them so late.
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Still got a few of pounds of a rogue Crimson Crush happily ripening down on The Patch.
One looks absolutely perfect, so if the weather does get too cold, he'll come home with his mates...
Same here, Growster, I was having a 'tidy up' bonfire yesterday and was going to burn the remaining Crimson Crush plants only to find that they still had viable and ripening tomatoes on them. I expect the coming cold weather will put a stop to them soon, but meanwhile I'll leave them to get on with it.
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Just harvested the last of my San Marzano's from the garden an hour ago going to get a lot cooler at nights now so time to take out the last row of tomato plants quite a few green ones so might make a bit of chutney with those... sighs ... just have to look forward to the spring now but there will still be lots of days when the temperatures hit 20C+ to look forward to before the years end.