Heheh! We were all dunces once - when I first started growing tomatoes, I fitted a spraying system into the greenhouse and ended-up with every tomato disease it is possible to get! I wish the internet was around then - sites like this one are fantastic for fast-tracking by learning from those who have "been there, done that!"
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I got some fruit on mine early, but since the weather changed they've just sat there as tiny green marbles anyway!
Same with the early chillis. Flowers now either aren't appearing or if they do they aren't setting fruit as the temperatures are proabably just too low.
I'm not really having to water anything even in the greenhouse. I've probably watered the tomatoes & chillis in their pots once a month, if that. They just aren't drying out.
It's amazing that when you think gardening is easy if you don't do it, but when you start, there's so much to learn. It's like being back at school again sometimes when I'm googling stuff!
Don't feel so guilty now about excess toms flowering in their weeny pots- they were sown in the hope of an outdoor crop, but haven't been out of the gh yet. Might give them a bit more spacious accommodation, withold feed and see what happens.
When did you all sow your seeds? I sowed mine in February and put them in a heated propagator until germinated. Then brought them on on a window sill until the temp in my unheated greenhouse was constantly above seven degrees and then put them in there. I have now got plants with plenty of fruit on and have been pulling ripe ones for a week. I live in East Yorkshire and the weather has been as bad here as everywhere else.
I think I sowed mine in late March, but will try and get them going earlier next year. Have invested in a fairly substantial heated propagator, so should be able to nurse them along in that in the GH. It feels as though this whole season's been a write off.
I brought some tiny baby plants back from Cornwall with me in Feb to get a head start. It worked well last year!
Then sowed mine in March, heated propagator indoors. I heated the greenhouse to put them out to 5, then gave in & put it to 10.
They did then go away with me & were put in an unheated greenhouse for a week end of March, which may have checked them a bit. They weren't potted on too quickly because I knew I needed to transport them. No food until first fruit sets.
Still, I'm in West Sussex & am disappointed that mine are so far behind yours in East Yorkshire Johntheeng!
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LOL Lilly!! Think we'd better go and sit in a corner with dunces hats on! I know I need to!
Yes, see you there Insomnia, I'll bring the biscuits !
Ha ha ha. I'd bring the strawberries, but I can't grow them properly either!
Heheh! We were all dunces once - when I first started growing tomatoes, I fitted a spraying system into the greenhouse and ended-up with every tomato disease it is possible to get! I wish the internet was around then - sites like this one are fantastic for fast-tracking by learning from those who have "been there, done that!"
I got some fruit on mine early, but since the weather changed they've just sat there as tiny green marbles anyway!
Same with the early chillis. Flowers now either aren't appearing or if they do they aren't setting fruit as the temperatures are proabably just too low.
I'm not really having to water anything even in the greenhouse. I've probably watered the tomatoes & chillis in their pots once a month, if that. They just aren't drying out.
Still time for it all to change I reckon.
It's amazing that when you think gardening is easy if you don't do it, but when you start, there's so much to learn. It's like being back at school again sometimes when I'm googling stuff!
When did you all sow your seeds? I sowed mine in February and put them in a heated propagator until germinated. Then brought them on on a window sill until the temp in my unheated greenhouse was constantly above seven degrees and then put them in there. I have now got plants with plenty of fruit on and have been pulling ripe ones for a week. I live in East Yorkshire and the weather has been as bad here as everywhere else.
I think I sowed mine in late March, but will try and get them going earlier next year. Have invested in a fairly substantial heated propagator, so should be able to nurse them along in that in the GH. It feels as though this whole season's been a write off.
I brought some tiny baby plants back from Cornwall with me in Feb to get a head start. It worked well last year!
Then sowed mine in March, heated propagator indoors. I heated the greenhouse to put them out to 5, then gave in & put it to 10.
They did then go away with me & were put in an unheated greenhouse for a week end of March, which may have checked them a bit. They weren't potted on too quickly because I knew I needed to transport them. No food until first fruit sets.
Still, I'm in West Sussex & am disappointed that mine are so far behind yours in East Yorkshire Johntheeng!