Going Away - how do you manage?

[veg4681]

We'll be away for 2 days at least and wondering what to do with my seedlings from the unheated greenhouse. Lately temperature has been dropping to 1 even in the daytime so I'm thinking of keeping them indoors (by the window) during my absence, can't hurt too much can it?

How do you manage yours, what measures do you normally take? If the vegetables are fully grown (& flowering hanging basket), I get my neighbour to water them.

[crichmond]

I use capillary matting and put a resevoir of water at the end it usually last 3 or 4 days

Cheers Chris

[pjh75]

Yeah me too... just been away for 5 days and capillary matting worked a treat with my seedlings.

[crichmond]

They sell it in focus I think it is £7.99 for 2m x 0.6m and its called 'water wick' any decent sized container will do at the end of it and all you do is put a piece of it into the water container and it sucks it up as it needs it.

[Flummery]

I don't think it's just watering that's the problem. Capillary matting is great when you are away and want to be sure the plants are watered. If your problem (like veg4681) is temperature in the day, then I think for 2 days they'll cope by a window indoors. They will all be listing to port so to speak, but turning them and putting them out in the day again when you get back will cure this. It's all you can do really.

[snake the squadie]

i have this trouble every year but i dont buy any thing i just let nature take its corse. i do leave a lot of things on the window sills. but mainly grow things that can look after them selfs. also i plant twice as much as i need so i can accept heavy losses