think i'll try growing my cucumbers in a cheep plastic grow house (which are hard to ventilate for tomatoes) and use the greenhouse for Toms and peppers
sorry to hijack the the thread somewhat. is it possible to grow and get decent crops from growing tomatoes (and peppers while we are at it) outside without a greenhouse?
i can plant them in a pot/growbag up a warm wall that is also south-east facing (it would lose the sun around 3pm ish in summer). im in the midlands and it's a fairly sheltered spot.
Djjjuk, yes you can grow tomatoes outside. I grow lovely ones in troughs using multipurpose compost under my east facing kitchen window. I feed them with a proprietry tomato feed from when fist fruits form. I am on the other side of B'ham to you - near Tamworth. They do better there than if I put them against a fence facing south. Good luck! Maggie
djjjuk, toms need at least 6 hours a day of direct sunlight for optimum growth*. They will cope with less but their progress will suffer accordingly. Ditto temperatures. Low 20sC and above are fine. The lower you go, the more they will suffer.
*Until the toms have grown and are ready to ripen. At that point, direct sunlight isn't necessary. Ripening is down to temperature, not sunlight.
thanks italophile and staffsmags. well going on recent summers, we seem to have had most days at or around late teens/low twenties, and the odd spell when it hottens up about 2 separate weeks or so (normally may and one week in august or so). this coupled with the most likely location of the plant with regards to sunlight hours probably means i'll struggle to get anything decent out of them. might have to go back to the drawing board ..
djjjuk - just have a go. ok, so you won't get award-winning fruit but it will be lovely to go and pick them fresh from the vines and they do taste better than supermarket supplies. Maggie
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think i'll try growing my cucumbers in a cheep plastic grow house (which are hard to ventilate for tomatoes) and use the greenhouse for Toms and peppers
Never had a problem with cues and toms-even touching each other.
A tip though-grow the cues in the corners of the greenhouse. Tends to have a higher humidity there.
sorry to hijack the the thread somewhat. is it possible to grow and get decent crops from growing tomatoes (and peppers while we are at it) outside without a greenhouse?
i can plant them in a pot/growbag up a warm wall that is also south-east facing (it would lose the sun around 3pm ish in summer). im in the midlands and it's a fairly sheltered spot.
Djjjuk, yes you can grow tomatoes outside. I grow lovely ones in troughs using multipurpose compost under my east facing kitchen window. I feed them with a proprietry tomato feed from when fist fruits form. I am on the other side of B'ham to you - near Tamworth. They do better there than if I put them against a fence facing south. Good luck! Maggie
djjjuk, toms need at least 6 hours a day of direct sunlight for optimum growth*. They will cope with less but their progress will suffer accordingly. Ditto temperatures. Low 20sC and above are fine. The lower you go, the more they will suffer.
*Until the toms have grown and are ready to ripen. At that point, direct sunlight isn't necessary. Ripening is down to temperature, not sunlight.
thanks italophile and staffsmags. well going on recent summers, we seem to have had most days at or around late teens/low twenties, and the odd spell when it hottens up about 2 separate weeks or so (normally may and one week in august or so). this coupled with the most likely location of the plant with regards to sunlight hours probably means i'll struggle to get anything decent out of them. might have to go back to the drawing board ..
djjjuk - just have a go. ok, so you won't get award-winning fruit but it will be lovely to go and pick them fresh from the vines and they do taste better than supermarket supplies. Maggie