What I Did Today (Undercover)

[SarzWix]

I took a chance, and planted a dozen tomato plants into the beds yesterday. Much harder to fleece them for protection once they're in the ground, so fingers are firmly crossed!

[SarzWix]

Rubbed hands with glee as I spot 2 baby tomatoes (one on Early Tanana and one on Purple Plum) a tiny chilli, a pepper and pods with peas forming Yay!!

[VirginVegGrower]

Watered, earthed up spuds, weeded in polytunnel.

[SarzWix]

Definitely flippin' cold in my tunnel this evening. I've added a load of Enviromesh to the layers covering my plants down there. That makes at least 2 layers of something over all of them, 3 layers where there's overlaps. Fingers crossed!!

[judy2shoes]

Not much at all! Watered, didnt yesterday as temperstures were low. Ive hardened off my sweet peas but i put some of them back in the pt today as they are smaller than the others. I tied up the bigger ones. Then mourned the loss of a courgette plant in the outside bed, wind i think.

[marchogaeth]

2.7�C last night. Didn't see that coming. Re-errected the hoops for fleece over toms, chillies and aubergines. Brought poor old squashy things back in to the tunnel before they become really sqashy.

[Currysniffa]

Transplanted my dwarf beans into the greenhouse border. Could do with moving sweetcorn into the cold frame to free up space to set my tomatoes out.

[Ericthehalfabee]

Been hardening off annuals and outdoor veg outside while the night temperatures have been ok, really pleased with the extra space this has created in the gh. Transplanted Concador dwarf beans into the gh border. Grew them under cover a few years ago and got a bumper crop, tried them outdoors last year and none of them grew more than about 6 inches tall, so it's back under cover this year. Gave chillies and peppers a new home, in Morrisons flower buckets. Contemplated liquid feeding tomatoes.

[VirginVegGrower]

I'm struggling to decide what to do with all my plants. I reckon I have about a third of the tomato plants, half of the pepper/chilli plants and half of the squash/pumpkin plants down in the polytunnel. The rest are in my heated greenhouse in the back garden, as insurance against disaster. They're getting far too big to stay out there though (it's only 6x4), but I don't have enough fleece to cover them all up in the polytunnel, and we're forecast down to 1c overnight this week. It's a biggish tunnel - 14x20, so should store a good amount of heat in the soil through the day, but is it going to be enough?

I've bust my max/min thermometer dropping it from a fair height, so I can't check the difference between outside/inside temps

I am checking polytunnel temps and so far it's been no lower than 7� c in there despite iPhone weather saying 0�c a few days ago.

[redser]

I feel your pain Sarz, I haven't moved anything to the tunnel yet and the house is a mess of plants. It's got to be in the coming week but temps are forecast lower

[Tripmeup]

I should reckon they would be fine Sarz...I have had all of those in two unheated greenhouses ( as opposed to a tunnel) for around a month now and no problems...its always going to be a good few degrees higher inside the tunnel I reckon..

[SarzWix]

I'm struggling to decide what to do with all my plants. I reckon I have about a third of the tomato plants, half of the pepper/chilli plants and half of the squash/pumpkin plants down in the polytunnel. The rest are in my heated greenhouse in the back garden, as insurance against disaster. They're getting far too big to stay out there though (it's only 6x4), but I don't have enough fleece to cover them all up in the polytunnel, and we're forecast down to 1c overnight this week. It's a biggish tunnel - 14x20, so should store a good amount of heat in the soil through the day, but is it going to be enough?

I've bust my max/min thermometer dropping it from a fair height, so I can't check the difference between outside/inside temps

[Ericthehalfabee]

Shifted pot grown plants out of the coldframe and into a sheltered sunny corner of the garden to make room for trays of annuals from the greenhouse staging. Decided to water trays from underneath and not from the top, which seemed a waste of time when it's up in the 30's in the gh. Made up three hanging baskets and hung in gh, two with annuals, the other with tumbling tom .. planted up spare tomato plants in Morrisons buckets.. wondering what to do with the leftovers. Amazed myself at the price of foxgloves at the garden centre .. I've had loads overwintering in the gh that I sowed last year, wasted most cos grew far too many.. I'd no idea how expensive they are to buy.

[VirginVegGrower]

I've misted again to try and get the humidity up.
Planted four more spud tubers. Squeezed them in.

[SarzWix]

Too hot. Just. Too. Hot. And my water is down to 400l