Fruit and veg growers of 2024

[PositronicRay]

I'm keen to start Tom's, little wee seedlings in the greenhouse. Isn’t it a bit early/cold yet?

[borcy]

I've split mine, a couple inside and a few seedlings in a mini greenhouse.

See what happens.

[Sticks.]

I've always worked on a min temp for small plants - not seedlings. It looks like the min temp here (Kent) will be 8c from now on.

I bought one of these a while back https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075VMLZB9/ref...

With an extra sensor, one for greenhouse, one for outside.

[otolith]

My tomato seedlings were started indoors and went outside in the greenhouse about a month ago - not ideal, but we were going away on holiday and there's no watering system indoors. Actually we had a watering system malfunction and lost a lot of plants, but the tomatoes survived. They aren't really thriving yet, though. I think they need a bit of good weather to really take off and temperatures in the greenhouse are in the twenties in the day but have been dropping to 5-6 degrees at night, which is not good. Hopefully warming up next week.

[The Three D Mucketeer]

I have 2kW heaters on SMART plugs and battery temperature sensors , I've got SMARTHTHINGS to switch the heaters ON for max 10mins , if the temp drops below 38 degrees F , OFF @ 42 degrees F.

[Quhet]

Our allotment seems to be absolutely overrun with slugs at the moment. The buggers have eaten 2 lots of broad beans that were coming up and the purple sprouting I'd put in. I don't particularly want to put down slug killer but do I have much of a choice? I've been going down every couple of days and killing any slugs I can find but they just seem to be multiplying...

Can't wait until it dries out a bit

[Sticks.]

Beer traps. Jam jars partially sunk into the ground, half fill with beer, not lager

[The Three D Mucketeer]

I kidnap toads and put them in the Greenhouse .... along with the Ladybirds , hedgehogs are useful in the garden .

Edited by The Three D Mucketeer on Monday 29th April 11:57

[otolith]

The nematodes are very effective and harmless to all other creatures. Whether you want to unleash a plague against them is your call, of course.

[The Three D Mucketeer]

Tidied the Asparagus Bed

New Camera Surveillance

Tomatoes & Cucumbers have flowers


Greenhouse is still full

But The Dicksonia Antratica is the most interesting... just wish it would hurry up with it's fronds