What I Did Today (Undercover)

[Currysniffa]

Yesterday I got greenhouse #2 ready for the season ahead. I've had the beds covered all winter so no weeding needed. I just tuned the soil over and did a little light hoeing then recovered.




Sorry for the large photo

[VirginVegGrower]

My seedlings in the greenhouse are all fine...phewee. Cress in a pot had flopped in my sickness absence. Anyhow I have watered in there and in the poly. Garlic really thickening up now. Planted some more Broadies out. Mr VVG has made me another hanging shelf for my polytunnel. I am very happy

[plymouthred]

Bit late starting this year but today I have had a stock take, cleaned up my pots and scrubbed all my plant labels.

Off to the garden centre to get some compost later to start off my toms indoors as the greenhouse went down to -2.2 this week!! God only knows what it was registering outside in the back garden but the dogs sure aren't happy walking on the frozen grass or grassy bits!!

[VirginVegGrower]

Thelma S - so sorry. Oh no and I can't get out to see mine. Fingers crossed and all that.

[Thelma Sanders]

My Hispi cabbage seedlings died in the cold greenhouse, so I've just sown some more on the windowledge indoors - hopefully it'll warm up a tad by the time they need to go out there again!

[redser]

Ah right glad it's not a total disaster

[SarzWix]

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I have simple solution - cheap fluorescent tubes you are already providing the heat for the house, the tubes will give the perfect light and cost pennies to run. Get the timing right and you should only need them for a few weeks in the year until things warn up a bit.

I have lights, which is how they had gotten almost to flowering stage already, but the lights needed to be set at the right height for the seedlings and the early toms were getting scorched. So I decided to move them into the greenhouse, which is what I bought the heater for a few years ago. Lucky that it was only a handful of tomato plants that bought it, and not the 40+ that are still under the lights

[Alison]

Planted out peas, mange tout, broad beans and new potatoes in the polytunnel, it looks so much nicer for a good tidy up and some new stuff. Had wrapped up so much as it was cold out that I almost ended up overheating!

[redser]

After the disaster with my greenhouse heater cutting out, I now have just one plant at 4 leaf stage, rather than the 15 I started with So I've spent the afternoon potting up the later sown 'maincrop' plants and am back to square one: no room for them all in the house and nowhere warm enough to put them out... I have to decide whether to buy the stuff to repair the back garden greenhouse and hope that the electric heater still works, or, pay to have the gas heater serviced for the lottie greenhouse with the threat that it might be condemned as unsafe and me �25 worse off and still heater-less. *sigh*

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I have simple solution - cheap fluorescent tubes you are already providing the heat for the house, the tubes will give the perfect light and cost pennies to run. Get the timing right and you should only need them for a few weeks in the year until things warn up a bit.

[Bigmallly]

How does the song go Sarz?..............Things can only get better...............

[SarzWix]

After the disaster with my greenhouse heater cutting out, I now have just one plant at 4 leaf stage, rather than the 15 I started with So I've spent the afternoon potting up the later sown 'maincrop' plants and am back to square one: no room for them all in the house and nowhere warm enough to put them out... I have to decide whether to buy the stuff to repair the back garden greenhouse and hope that the electric heater still works, or, pay to have the gas heater serviced for the lottie greenhouse with the threat that it might be condemned as unsafe and me �25 worse off and still heater-less. *sigh*

[VirginVegGrower]

Went to water my peas and pak choi, but was devastated. All nibbled off, the peas almost completely down to the ground, with one or two leaves lying around. Set 3 traps and put some poison down. Hate doing that, and will keep door closed for a week to stop birds eating it, but could have cried.

I had that very early on and now mine are up on a hanging shelf. In gutters first.

[SarzWix]

Oh noes! A new sowing should catch up quickly? Have a (((hug))) anyway x

[Acanthus]

Went to water my peas and pak choi, but was devastated. All nibbled off, the peas almost completely down to the ground, with one or two leaves lying around. Set 3 traps and put some poison down. Hate doing that, and will keep door closed for a week to stop birds eating it, but could have cried.

[VirginVegGrower]

I have hoed off the green stuff again, noted fresh growth on the broad beans, peas in gutter, garlic and o/w onions. Pleased we bought the poly when we did. Enjoyed the warmth in there and in the greenhouse. Just in case peeps are interested
Poly - 16�c
Greenhouse - 11�c
Outside - 5�c