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    I'm getting itchy feet.

    I was wondering when I could start planting out my Tomato plants in the polytunnel. If it is still a bit early could I maybe use a cloche over them?

    Your thoughts welcomed.

  • #2
    I would hold back on planting your toms out just yet - we've still had snow in April before! Toms don't need plating out until the first flowers are seen.

    However - there is more hardy veg you can plant out now - what about some broad beans or early carrots (under fleece/cloche), or an early salad sowing (under protection or transplanted out into your tunnel), early peas, early cauliflower? There's quite a bit you can do now - just don't rush the tender plants! You have a polytunnel so you've quite a choice for early crops.
    There's vegetable growing in the family, but I must be adopted
    Happy Gardening!

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    • #3
      yeah im trying to hold back on the tomatoes too - so tempting though, but i have broad beans, carrots, peas, brocolli, cauli, cabbage, rocket, spinach and lettuce in my polytunnel and all are doing very well at the moment!
      The closer to nature I become the more alive I am!

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      • #4
        thanks. I am devoting the WHOLE tunnel to toms with a few aubs, chillis and cucs

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        • #5
          Originally posted by WiZeR View Post
          thanks. I am devoting the WHOLE tunnel to toms with a few aubs, chillis and cucs

          Blimey! i guess you like tomatoes

          Even if you don't want to take up tunnel space, most of the other crops i mentioned can be sown outdoors - not in the tunnel, so you can scratch your itch if you need to get sometihng in the ground!
          There's vegetable growing in the family, but I must be adopted
          Happy Gardening!

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          • #6
            What about now? Anyone risking it yet? I think I am going to take the plunge this week. My conservatory is being taken over by tomato plants!!

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            • #7
              Not yet- but we are further North.
              The guy on the next plot has put his into his greenhouse, but I think he'll need a heater on standby!
              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

              Location....Normandy France

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              • #8
                hmm I might put in a few now and a few next week and so on.

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                • #9
                  I've got some in pots out there since yesterday but they'll be back in if this predicted frost occurs later this week!

                  Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                  Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                  • #10
                    My toms are already in, but the greenhouse is heated - so is the polytunnel for that matter.
                    http://norm-foodforthought.blogspot.com/

                    If it ain't broke, don't fix it and if you ain't going to eat it, don't kill it

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                    • #11
                      Blimey, my tomatoes have been hardened off for the last two weeks and 52 plants have now been planted in the first tunnel and the second tunnel has 22 plants in plus 60 odd pepper and chillie plants with space for the aubergines as they are a bit softer.

                      It will take a very hard frost to knock the temp down inside my tunnel to anything that would do any damage. You live 100 miles south of me so shouldnt have a problem. My outside toms will go out mid May albeit wearing fleece tents that roll down if required.
                      Last edited by pigletwillie; 17-04-2007, 07:58 AM.

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                      • #12
                        My toms and peppers have been in the unheated greenhouse for the past two weeks. Some of the toms and peppers already have buds on them, so no ill effects there.

                        And when your back stops aching,
                        And your hands begin to harden.
                        You will find yourself a partner,
                        In the glory of the garden.

                        Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                        • #13
                          It would be interesting to know what people's minimum temperatures are in their greenhouses/polytunnels.
                          The larger ones must stay warmer than the smaller ones and that must make a difference to the plants.
                          My toms are in a little plastic lean-to kite ( sorry-that should be greenhouse ) wrapped in sacking overnight tonight.
                          Looks like the heavy frosts predicted will not happen for us, so I'll chance leaving them there.
                          It's a bit of a worry isn't it ?....maternal instincts again eh?????
                          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                          Location....Normandy France

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                          • #14
                            And mine Bramble, in fact all of the tomatoes have fruit forming.

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                            • #15
                              aaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh Right that's it, tonight all of this:



                              and this



                              and this:



                              AND THIS:

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