Hello all,
We moved house just before Christmas to a new house and we've also bought a small strip of land next to the house and ever since I've been planning and building my mini raised bed allotment on it. The beds should be ready in 2-3 weeks time for planting - I should have
1.4m x 1.4m
1.6m x 1.6m
3.6m x 1.1m
2.25m x 2.25m - (sized for the sweetcorn -16 plants in a block)
I have chosen to start with raised beds for a number of reasons, but mainly because I have really heavy clay soil which is full of big stones, glass (from a previously demolished commercial greenhouse) and builders rubble (from when the house was built). This way I can dig out (and discard the worst soil, dig over and sieve the bottom layer and then work in newly purchased good stuff to the top of the raised beds.
I am a complete novice at this, but have spent 4 months researching and planning .... reading books, watching TV programmes and of course the web and this forum.
I started sowing seeds indoors on every windowsill as soon as the packets said I could and bought two wooden mini greenhouses/ coldframes.
I seemed to be doing pretty well until now and now my problem is that my tomatoes and in particular my sweetcorn are huge and taking over the house.
The sweetcorn is nearly 2ft tall and my tomatoes are over 1ft tall (no flowers yet)
Can I put the sweetcorn in bigger pots in my coldframes / mini-greenhouses yet? If not can I put the tomatoes in there?
I really need to free up some space.....
Thanks
Anni
We moved house just before Christmas to a new house and we've also bought a small strip of land next to the house and ever since I've been planning and building my mini raised bed allotment on it. The beds should be ready in 2-3 weeks time for planting - I should have
1.4m x 1.4m
1.6m x 1.6m
3.6m x 1.1m
2.25m x 2.25m - (sized for the sweetcorn -16 plants in a block)
I have chosen to start with raised beds for a number of reasons, but mainly because I have really heavy clay soil which is full of big stones, glass (from a previously demolished commercial greenhouse) and builders rubble (from when the house was built). This way I can dig out (and discard the worst soil, dig over and sieve the bottom layer and then work in newly purchased good stuff to the top of the raised beds.
I am a complete novice at this, but have spent 4 months researching and planning .... reading books, watching TV programmes and of course the web and this forum.
I started sowing seeds indoors on every windowsill as soon as the packets said I could and bought two wooden mini greenhouses/ coldframes.
I seemed to be doing pretty well until now and now my problem is that my tomatoes and in particular my sweetcorn are huge and taking over the house.
The sweetcorn is nearly 2ft tall and my tomatoes are over 1ft tall (no flowers yet)
Can I put the sweetcorn in bigger pots in my coldframes / mini-greenhouses yet? If not can I put the tomatoes in there?
I really need to free up some space.....
Thanks
Anni
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