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Get your cameras out people, share your plastic experiences.
I know I get down to the tunnel many a day and wish I'd brought my camera and can't be bothered to walk back for it but it is so nice to see what people have got going on under cover. Everyone uses their plastic differently and, as someone pointed out to me the other day there is very little that regularly appears in any magazine never mind one dedicated to undercover stuff. So maybe some others will take the bait after seeing these pics.
Inca - bush toms
Maskotka toms. These are my stars for this year because they are so persistent. I tried growing them in grow bags thrown over the grow bars as Joy Larkam suggested can be done over a fence in her Veg book. I installed plastic bottles to drip water the bags but the tomatoes always looked awful and in the end I cut them down, slashed the bag bottoms and chucked them in a not very good corner for tomatoes. They still don't look really healthy but they have cropped and cropped. They also prove the idea that stressing tomatoes will make them crop early, having gone in after many others, they were first to fruit. I'll give the grow bag idea one more go next year but with a lot of modification of the watering system first.
Rio Grande bush toms, the cheap and cheerful Frenchi variety. They were my late sowing, so they are barely ripe yet. As you can see, despite having plastic bottles sunk into the bed for watering, I have managed to get some blossom end rot. No excuses really just must have thought they were getting enough from the bed when they weren't. It makes it look like I have plum and round tom's on the same plant.
Friarello di Bari peppers courtesy of Sarico. I have had a rubbish year for peppers, just too cold early on I think. They've all grown but oddly all became bushes of their own accord. I grabbed several packets of Sarico's seed when they became available on the Seed Parcel and they have done really well for me compared with others despite being "soft" Italian seed that went in quite late!
I really think I will have to look at setting up a grow cabinet in the house this winter where I provide heat and light. I've tried not to as it's away from using my own resources but our dark house coupled with the North facing slope is proving a bit trying. Either that or I accept I can't really grow peppers and aubergines.
Sweet potatoes, first time. They were plants on special offer and didn't go in until June. They seem quite slow but there are definitely some tubers down below.
I know I get down to the tunnel many a day and wish I'd brought my camera and can't be bothered to walk back for it but it is so nice to see what people have got going on under cover. Everyone uses their plastic differently and, as someone pointed out to me the other day there is very little that regularly appears in any magazine never mind one dedicated to undercover stuff. So maybe some others will take the bait after seeing these pics.
Inca - bush toms
Maskotka toms. These are my stars for this year because they are so persistent. I tried growing them in grow bags thrown over the grow bars as Joy Larkam suggested can be done over a fence in her Veg book. I installed plastic bottles to drip water the bags but the tomatoes always looked awful and in the end I cut them down, slashed the bag bottoms and chucked them in a not very good corner for tomatoes. They still don't look really healthy but they have cropped and cropped. They also prove the idea that stressing tomatoes will make them crop early, having gone in after many others, they were first to fruit. I'll give the grow bag idea one more go next year but with a lot of modification of the watering system first.
Rio Grande bush toms, the cheap and cheerful Frenchi variety. They were my late sowing, so they are barely ripe yet. As you can see, despite having plastic bottles sunk into the bed for watering, I have managed to get some blossom end rot. No excuses really just must have thought they were getting enough from the bed when they weren't. It makes it look like I have plum and round tom's on the same plant.
Friarello di Bari peppers courtesy of Sarico. I have had a rubbish year for peppers, just too cold early on I think. They've all grown but oddly all became bushes of their own accord. I grabbed several packets of Sarico's seed when they became available on the Seed Parcel and they have done really well for me compared with others despite being "soft" Italian seed that went in quite late!
I really think I will have to look at setting up a grow cabinet in the house this winter where I provide heat and light. I've tried not to as it's away from using my own resources but our dark house coupled with the North facing slope is proving a bit trying. Either that or I accept I can't really grow peppers and aubergines.
Sweet potatoes, first time. They were plants on special offer and didn't go in until June. They seem quite slow but there are definitely some tubers down below.
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