greenhouse capacity

[Ian_5]

Hopefully a simple question that someone could advise on based on their experience... google has failed me so far!

i invested in a 6x6 greenhouse and i'm try to plan out what i'll put in it, my question how many plants will it take without succumbing to poor ventilation/overcrowding... i plan on growing tomatoes and capsicum peppers in it in grown bags.

[binley100]

Hi Ian, welcome to the vine ....I'm not the best person to advise as I cram far too much into mine ......oh and someones bound to ask , where are you located ?

[Ian_5]

Thanks for the response... will update my profile. reckon there's every chance i'll read the advice offered and then do the same myself... it'll always take just one more plant and all that!

anyway to answer your question, i'm in Gateshead in the frozen north.

[binley100]

Have a look at this http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ght=greenhouse

It may give you some idea

[Ian_5]

Thats great thanks, a good place to start by the looks of things.

cheers

ian

[veggiechicken]

Hi Ian and welcome. If you're planting into growbags there is a limit to how many plants you can grow anyway, given that you need to be able to get in and water and, of course, pick. If you line the growbags along the outer edge of the greenhouse and across the far end you'll get some idea of what you can fit in.

[binley100]

I make two pots out of growbags .......fold 'em in half and cut through the middle with holes poked in the bottoms. Gives toms more depth and they take up less room ......

[Potstubsdustbins]

Hi Ian and welcome to the madhouse. If I may be blunt, I would scrap the growbag idea and get some Morrisons flower buckets. (a) The watering regime will be easier, (b) You will be able to arrange them better, (c) Supporting your toms will be much easier.

My GH is a 6 x 8 and like everyone else I tend to over crowd it. Down the right hand side I have 6 Sungold toms and 1 cumber. The cumber is trained up a cane to high level and then along a cord that runs the length of the GH. The plan for the left hand side this year is 4 heritage toms, 1 cumber trained as before and a couple of sweet peppers.

The center part of the back wall as a small bench with a high level shelf over so that in the early part of the year I can get my seedlings up to where the light is.

To support my toms I have used 5" wide board again run the length of the GH, drilled holes in it to take the canes but it also gives me two extra shelves again used for seedlings.


Colin

[BarleySugar]

I usually grow my tomatoes in individual pots, but last year I put 3 plants in together having been given bigger ones. They did ok, I had no problems with mold, but keeping the watering up was a bit hard. I find Golden Sunrise gets blossom end rot quite easily compare to the others I grew. Typicl, being OH's favourite.
New plan this year, I've bought some of the Marshall's grow beds,Grow Beds | Four Seasons Greenhouse Gro-System and plan to put 5 in each one as I've 17 varieties, and want one plant of each undercover. Supporting the the plants when they get fruiting will be interesting . I've got salad leaves comping through in the beds at the moment, they've got to earn their keep.

[Ananke]

I've tried a few different methods, planting in fish boxes, flower buckets and directly into the border.

I've never used growbags but they probably take up as much room as the fish boxes did and I got the least amount of plants in that way, I got more in using the flower buckets but planting directly into the border definately works best for me, it cuts watering down and I get the most plants in that way.

Good luck with it and enjoy

[Gurberly]

As mentioned by others, I would suggest not using grow bags. Personally I use cheap B&Q buckets with a few drainage holes drilled in the bottom. These sit in large drip dishes. Far easier to water (and probably more efficient too)/ Also a lot easier to support the plants. Buckets have lasted three seasons so far, so quite cost effective.

G

[Currysniffa]

Last year (first year growing in a greenhouse) I used growbags 3 plants to a growbag, but what I did was I cut the bottom out of some Morrisons flower buckets and put the buckets in the growbags and the plant in the bucket I got 20 plant in my 6x8 greenhouse, very easy to water.

[VirginVegGrower]

BTW Morrisons buckets are the containers that the cut flowers come in and they are sold as bundles of eight for a £1. We drill drainage holes in them and use them for crops. Find them on the floor by the flowers.
Just in case you didn't know and went looking for buckets in Morrisons, which is a different thing entirely
Oh and I daren't tell you what you can put in your greenhouse, as like Bins, I tend to pack a little too heavy

[Madasafish]

I find 8 tomato plants is the limit (for space) in my 8x6.

More and you can't water/pick easily and feel a machete would come in handy...

[Thelma Sanders]

In my 8 x 6 last year I grew 5 cordons each side plus one in the middle at the back, with a couple of cucs tucked into the corners as well.

In the polycarb, also 8 x 6 i grew bush toms I had 4 plants on one side, 3 peppers across the end, and the other side has some staging and had 3 aubs in the soil underneath and 4 tumbling toms in pots above

When the toms get too bushy you can always prune them back a bit to increase air flow