Tweet
Hi - I like this forum immediately as it seems to have an eccentric and eclectic membership. I'll fit in fine 
This is our 2nd year of gardening, last year we built 4 raised beds and did really well. This year we went bonkers and built a 15 x 12 poly tunnel. That was fun, the instructions came with QR reader for videos. so I could sit on the bench and watch the footage while shouting when my hubby was doing it wrong. We actually started gardening together as a marital bonding exercise.
So, far in the PT we've got lettuce, chillies, courgettes, french beans, aubergines, squash,and 19 tomato plants. I know - but I couldn't bear to throw out the little suckers when they were seedling. We'll learn.
In the beds we have some pathetic beetroot, I sowed three lots and the last ones only just made it,. Any ideas on why they may not have germinated? Also, sugar snap peas, herbs, pak choi (not as successful as last year), coriander, strawberries, fennel, more lettuce, kale, and some currant bushes and goosegogs.
I am suffering information overload from the books we have been given for Christmas and birthdays, so I thought a forum would be easier than wading through indexes. The books all say I should be harvesting and then digging up to make room in the PT for winter stuff but most of my crops are only just starting now in there. I want to make the most of the tunnel over the winter, should I be ruthless and clear some of the tomatoes and other stuff? The courgettes and squash take up loads of room, next year I'll grow them outside.
Did I mention I've another 5 tomato plants in the potting shed.
Thanks guys in advance
This is our 2nd year of gardening, last year we built 4 raised beds and did really well. This year we went bonkers and built a 15 x 12 poly tunnel. That was fun, the instructions came with QR reader for videos. so I could sit on the bench and watch the footage while shouting when my hubby was doing it wrong. We actually started gardening together as a marital bonding exercise.
So, far in the PT we've got lettuce, chillies, courgettes, french beans, aubergines, squash,and 19 tomato plants. I know - but I couldn't bear to throw out the little suckers when they were seedling. We'll learn.
In the beds we have some pathetic beetroot, I sowed three lots and the last ones only just made it,. Any ideas on why they may not have germinated? Also, sugar snap peas, herbs, pak choi (not as successful as last year), coriander, strawberries, fennel, more lettuce, kale, and some currant bushes and goosegogs.
I am suffering information overload from the books we have been given for Christmas and birthdays, so I thought a forum would be easier than wading through indexes. The books all say I should be harvesting and then digging up to make room in the PT for winter stuff but most of my crops are only just starting now in there. I want to make the most of the tunnel over the winter, should I be ruthless and clear some of the tomatoes and other stuff? The courgettes and squash take up loads of room, next year I'll grow them outside.
Did I mention I've another 5 tomato plants in the potting shed.
Thanks guys in advance
Comment