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WhispersmummyWhispersmummy Posts: 7
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Hello everyone, I am new on here. I have had a few years of growing veg and fruit, usually in rented properties image I have a small plastic greenhouse, one of those with a cover (which has been replaced a few times!). It isn't in the sunniest of positions, unfortunately and I cannot move it.

This year I am growing:

Beetroot

Tomatoes

Garlic

Onions

Cucumber

Peppers (hot and sweet!)

French beans (up sunflowers! (and canes!))

and various leafy green things.

Does anyone have any little snippets of wisdom? I have found beetroot especially quite difficult, only managing maybe 50p-sized edibles.

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  • archiepemarchiepem Posts: 1,155

     welcome. lots of people on here will help you. And advise youimage

  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Hi Whispersimage 

    Was the beetroot in the soil or a container? 

  • chris 172chris 172 Posts: 403

    hi

    can you please advise how you are growing beetroot as this is my favourite veg and i have had no problem in growing

    paublo, bolthardy, cylindra & choiggia last year with some excellent produce return

    cooking by roasting small or boilng larger

    beetroot and goats cheese drissld with olive oil salt and pepper to die for

    happy gardening

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    Welcome to the forum. Jump on it, it's lovely here.

    Devon.
  • WhispersmummyWhispersmummy Posts: 7

    We have clay soil but it has always been in multi-purpose as thats what I have in my rasied bed and have done in pots too. And we live in the South West: - North Somerset.

  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Hello Whispersmummy and welcome image  Most of us are fairly mad (well, yes, alright - I am speaking for myself), but that doesn't stop us gardening.

    The problem with beetroot, I suspect, is that it needs soil space, which it just doesn't get in a container.   And it would do better outside the greenhouse.  Sow now (if you haven't already), thin when they come up and thin again when they get bigger (eat the leaves in salad).

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,142

    Beetroot doesn't like too much nitrogen in the soil, otherwise it grows loads of leaves and doesn't bulk out the root.  It likes to be grown quickly, in warm moist soil so don't sow it too early. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    The phosphorus helps the roots grow.  From bone and seaweed.

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