So I've made another person laugh purplerallim, good to laugh even if it is at me. Polycarb has just this min arrived so off to fit that, this afternoon I'll have a full working cold frame. Now I'm one happy bunny, 1 hrs job then I have loads more seedlings to pot up, dig out a few more Spanish Bluebells ready for the tip tomorrow. Then Hampshire_Hog I might take my walking green house for a walk that is if I can find a lead long enough LOL.
Checked greenhouse temperatures this week ( new thermometer) and 27° day and 0° to 1° at night , bit of a change there. Will have to wait to see if it warms up a bit at night before getting started in there.
I sow a load of the free seeds we have been getting in the GW magazine on Monday, yesterday & today most are up already. They are in a propagator though as I agree with @purplerallim about the temperature fluctuations in the main part of the GH.
Question Allotment Boy I'm have just put my walk in plastic green house together. If I put my seedlings in it and in a no electric propagator will they be OK?
Thanks Purpleralim I did think it might be a bit to some but as we are tripping over seed trays I thought I'd ask. I can't wait till I get my new 10 x 6 ft Greenhouse in a month or two.
Dee it depends where you are in the country, I have had tom's, cucumbers, peas, carrots, salvia, pansy, chines lanterns, echinacea, hollyhocks to name but a few in my cold poly tunnel for a month now.
I'm on the south coast but we still had -2° in there the other night, if a cold night is forecast I just cover them with a layer of fleece.
I find the cool conditions keeps them compact and they do grow slower but as it warms up they will romp away.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Thanks Hampshire-Hog, I live on the Bedford/Bucks boarder in a small village. My gizmo was flashing this morning and said it was 2.1 out last night and son had some frost on his car this morning. I have a tray of runner way Broccoli which I was going to throw and start again so will put them out and see what happens. I have loads of fleece and bubble wrap.
Removed the netting mesh, cleaned and renewed with clean mesh on our pond filter/pump. The netting prevents the tiny pond insects from being filtered and as happened with a couple of news last year they were in pieces after going through the filter which was awful. We do this twice a year as the mesh is covered in blanket weed so slowing down the stream of water flowing into the pond. Also checked on seedling progress in the GH. Is it only me that has "baked" seed trays from too much heat in when the sun shines on them and no germination?
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Checked greenhouse temperatures this week ( new thermometer) and 27° day and 0° to 1° at night , bit of a change there. Will have to wait to see if it warms up a bit at night before getting started in there.
I'm on the south coast but we still had -2° in there the other night, if a cold night is forecast I just cover them with a layer of fleece.
I find the cool conditions keeps them compact and they do grow slower but as it warms up they will romp away.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog