Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: adri123 on February 25, 2014, 19:55
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Tomatoes?
Peppers?
Aubergines?
Cucumbers?
Melon?
I've done the first three and now have seedlings I need to care for until I don't know when.
Have I lit the firework too early? Just read a post on here where there's mention of a 'cold snap'. That sounds ominous and generally unwanted!!!
Adri
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You should be ok if you have them in a heated gh/pt or at home on windowsill they like warmth to germinate ;)
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The point is they have germinated.
We do keep trying to stress that it's all well and good starting things early, but you need somewhere suitable to put the plants. If you don't have a heated greenhouse or polytunnel, you soon find out that window sills fill up!
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No benefit in sowing tomatoes this early. I grew fifty early sown and fifty sown in mid march and there was no discernible difference in cropping at all, although the early sown ones seemed to run out of steam a bit earlier. Bear in mind I had the use of a heated greenhouse, heated mats etc etc, so ideal conditions early on still made next to no difference. Both lots did well though, pics below
Chillies and aubergines are ok to sow early as they are quite slow growing.
The cukes and melons can wait quite a while yet.
Totty
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Great information Totty. Thanks!
Adri
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i sowed tomatoes and cucumbers early last year, well more like normal time of year but the winter dragged on so they stayed on the window sills. i also done a few a month later which was half the size of the early ones when the planting time finally arrived.
the early ones did crop a couple of weeks sooner, but did run out of puff sooner. this year i will be sowing a couple of each variety this weekend and the rest in a month or so time. hopefully this will give a small crop earlier and the later sowing give a longer crop. i'll find out this year if it works this way.
i'm lucky to have a good amount of space on sunny window sills, and most of them the curtains can be left open. you need to remember that a hot window sill in the day will get very cold over night when the temperatures are down.
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Have done 6 types of tomatoes and the celeriac indoors all have germinated.
Cabbage, calabrese, broad beans, (all coming up) leeks, beetroot and sweet peas in the garage.
I have just got the house tidy from the Christmas mess and the rooms are starting to fill up again with the seeds.
I have given up all hopes of having a house and gardens type of home. :blush:
Do any of you have tidy homes? :D
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Do any of you have tidy homes?
<demonic laugh>
Ha.
Ha ha ha haaaaah!
</demonic laugh>
(Mrs B. is just starting to get (unduly) agitated at the number of trays, pots and other assorted growing paraphernalia that is apparently 'cluttering up, messing up the whole house' - a terrible exaggeration!)
Cheers,
Balders
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Do any of you have tidy homes?
<demonic laugh>
Ha.
Ha ha ha haaaaah!
</demonic laugh>
(Mrs B. is just starting to get (unduly) agitated at the number of trays, pots and other assorted growing paraphernalia that is apparently 'cluttering up, messing up the whole house' - a terrible exaggeration!)
Cheers,
Balders
Depends on what you call tidy ::)
My version is lots of neat rows of seed trays on every available windowsill! :nowink: