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my tomatoes and peppers are about 4 inches high is it too early to plant them into my poly tunnel bed . the tunnel is in a sheltered spot . could i put in one and see how it makes out. would one nights cold air kill the plant

I don't know am new to this, but keen to see the answers.
My guess is a 'no' it's too early.

janeyo

Toms and peppers don't like the cold air and yes, one night of cold temps would kill them! I have mine in the greenhouse now with a small paraffin heater but I am still fearful!

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I have put my Toms in the greenhose and have partitioned it off with fleece.They seem to be doing ok but as you say Snadger I always dread going in there after a frosty night

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Well I took the risk last sunday and planted 2 pepper plant in my tunnel under a plastic bottle, will have to wait and see, I also plant about3 corgettes plants in my tunnnel 3 week ago in big plastic bottles and they are ok, but we have a cold weekend coming who knows.



Marion

its all abit of a gamble though really isnt it??? I am a mere beginner and have 2 little tomato plants in my spare room!!

My tunnel is still getting freezing temps - won't risk it for a few more weeks yet, even down here in the south. Couldn't bear to lose the toms now....

It goes below zero in my unheated greenhouse fairly regularly at the moment. Mine all come in at night, have a story read, their prayers heard and are tucked in by mummy!

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my tomatoes in uheated greenhouse for tumbing toms in a pot,still hanging on to life!
i put fleece over all my seedlings and plants every night til end of april,it does work

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I'm bringing my toms, peppers and chillis in each night. My son helps with the transporting. I popped into the local garden center and saw their toms and peppers. A sorry sight. Just getting their second leaves, but in the unheated glasshouse area. I wouldn't have bought them, they had definitely found it too cold, and didn't look like they'd last much longer. The cues looked OK, but maybe they hadn't been there as long. I'm not putting my cues in until mid April.

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My tomatoes went out in greenhouse yesterday. They are inside a plastic mini greenhouse mounted on a bench in the glass greenhouse and the paraffin heater is underneath them. I do this every year ands suffer no losses - even in the worst frosts.

The heater is switched on at 6pm and off at 8am.. altho in snow it's on all the time.

Like you madasafish, I have just put up a mini greenhouse within my greenhouse and have a little parasene heater that's on all the time at the moment, cosof the freezing weather. I have simply run out of space in the house and a lot of the seedlings were getting leggy. So I'm hoping for the best. I have just noted that the temperature in my greenhouse went from 7 degrees to 24 degrees in the space of half an hour! It can't be doing the plants much good .....

In the greenhouse I have tomatoes, pepper, aubergines and cucumbers as well as some heat loving flower seedlings. Guess I should be taking them in every night????? What a chore!

I put fleece over everything in the greenhouse at night.. except the mini greenhouse.
Reason : one year we had an incredibly cold March night - the temperature was -10C and despite my paraffin heater some of the plants inside the greenhouse were partially frosted. (they did survive).

IAs I said I switch the heater off in the day: we have had snow showers and sun today: the greenhouse reached 20C unheated (it is bubblewrapped as well.)

I been bringing my toms, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, herb seedlings and courgettes in every night at the moment. All the other stuff - parsnips, cabbages,broads, peas, sprouts etc have to stay outside. brrr.

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thanks for replying i will hold off from planting the tomatoes and peppers for another while