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Evening all which would say was the best for overwintering veg, a cloche with plastic (homemade hoop style) or a cloche with horticultural fleece?
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Depends on what you want to protect. -
Really, what's the difference? I'm doing peas, broad beans, onions, spring onions, potatoes for Xmas, pak choi and lettuce
I've got plenty of cloches so even if they don't need the protection I still will to protect from windComment
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Crops can get "sweaty" under plastic cloches.Comment
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Oh I see, which veg sweat the most?Comment
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So called Christmas potatoes are not frost hardy so needs much protection as you can give them and probably a heater too! Onions don't need protecting.
I would favour poly cloches but with the ends open to allow the air to circulate. They can always be closed if really bad. The only time I used a fleece tunnel it shredded in the wind!Comment
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Which veg sweat the most? Has to be runner beans.photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.htmlComment
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Never been asked that before!Originally posted by Spunky View Post
I grow stuff in the greenhouse or cold frames which makes for a drier atmosphere easily ventilated by opening or closing cold frame 'lights' or windows and doors.
Enviromesh over hoops can give some degree of protection also.
I garden on a windy site so polythene cloches or fleece would just blow away for me!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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No idea (apart from Bill's runner beans) - the point I was trying to make is that a damp atmosphere under a sealed plastic cloche will encourage moulds and disease.Originally posted by Spunky View Post
None of the crops you mentioned need protection, apart from the potatoes which need a lot more protection than a cloche would give.Comment
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I always think lettuce are sweaty
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Remind me never to have a salad at your place..........Originally posted by veggiechicken View PostI always think lettuce are sweaty
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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Don't you think the floppy leaved ones feel sweaty and slippery, Snadger? I hate it when they slide out of a sandwich
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