Fruit and veg growers of 2024
Discussion
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.
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.
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.
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
Can't wait until it dries out a bit
I've had oranges, lemons , grapefruits and limes... Only one orange and a few small grapefruits on at the moment and no blossom yet this year . I can't say they are like the ones you buy in the shop, tend to have very pithy skins and not much juicey flesh . I've had no trouble with citrus fruit setting out in the garden .
My Lemon and Lime trees seem less tolerant of cold weather than the other , my Lime went completely bald two years ago , it's recovering slowly.
Better than my pears this year , they set OK , but every one has now turned brown and rotted .
My Lemon and Lime trees seem less tolerant of cold weather than the other , my Lime went completely bald two years ago , it's recovering slowly.
Better than my pears this year , they set OK , but every one has now turned brown and rotted .
Edited by The Three D Mucketeer on Friday 17th May 10:36
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