Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: Michael D on August 25, 2011, 19:13
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Hi all what is ok to grow in an unheated greenhouse over winter, it`s full of tomatoes at mo but they`ll be out soon, don`t want to leave empty, any tip pls
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Borrow from the Library/or buy Joy Larkcom's book Grow Your Own Vegetables, it has a lot of advice about growing undercover, especially winter veg/salads in a polytunnel and stuff for early crops
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grow-Your-Own-Vegetables-Larkcom/dp/071121963X
and have a look at this thread
have a look at this thread
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=74348.msg846033#msg846033
You can sow chard now, pak choi and spinach
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I sow spinach Bordeaux in September and leave it on the plot over winter. I cover it at sowing time with Enviromesh
I usually keep some winter salads ticking over in the greenhouse. I sow them in full size seed trays. The oriental leaf mixes do quite well too.
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What about rocket, radish and perpetual spinach ?
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Last year I sowed lettuce. Kept us in salads over the winter. The only problem was that it seemed to host greenfly so I had a lot of pests in the start of the year until the ladybirds saw them off in May.
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I have just found out that garlic water deters most whitefly in the greenhouse.
When you say the oriental salad are you referring to the Spicy Salad mix ?
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Oriental salad usually includes mustard leaves, as well as mizuna and pak choi (to pick for leaf) , which are all rather good :D