How I’m making gardening easier in the polytunnel
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
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Poly tunnel looks great. It's nice when U can do gardening but makes your life easier
I think everyone is feeling like doing less to achieve more. I say every year I will grow a few less things but concentrate on what we really love eating. We’ll see if that works next year 😂😂. Have a great weekend Steve, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦
It's not easy though, I've consistently reduced the time I spend and increased the amount I harvest, while reducing the space I grow for the last 8 years. Now I'm efficient enough that I can do less and achieve less and I will still have plenty of food : All the best - Steve
Fantastic ! Have a great weekend ! ☀️🌿🦋
My tunnel house went up mid December last year, which is 2 weeks into summer for New Zealand, was ridiculously hot in there, aim with it, is Autumn to spring growing, summer will be Sweet potato in pots, maybe a melon in the compost, have finally finished filling the beds up with home made compost, spinach, chard, lettuce and Chinese cabbage love the protection from birds and frosts.
A polythene doesn't protect from night frosts really, it's often colder in my tunnel than it is outside, but if you add a layer of fleece then that works wonders : All the best - Steve
good show, cheers Steve
It still amazes me how much growth you have been getting. Most of us have lost so.much to slugs, snails, wet weather, cold and overcast weather. We get so few sunny days and it seems to have been all across UK.
My broad beans that I put in the outdoor tomato bed have usually finished by now but they just got an injection of warmth and sun and have taken off again. Now I am struggling with 12 Shirley in pots in the polytunnel (in memory of Steve at Green Side Up) that aee desperate to go out. Argh!
I've had all of the same problems, I think I've coped better because I've worked on the slugs and snails all through winter and because my earlies are all pampered in the greenhouse and everything else is sown later than most people. Sown later the plants coped much better as they've been growing with long days, so even though those days have been dull, they have had a lot of light in total and so strong and healthy. I don't watch youtube gardeners, so I don't have much to compare against, but I do get to compare to 160 allotments on my site, I rely on viewers to compare beyond that : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards well, I pamper all.mine with heat cables and lights.
My allotment is so for behind you on everything!
Mine too. This year is the most I've been behind that I've ever been. I didn't even get any potatoes in.
One of the things I did differently this year was starting my allotment main crop successions later, so the plants started stronger. I did all of my earlies back at home in the greenhouse where I had more control over water, light and heat. So ironically my plants are well on partly because they are late. But also because I use a lot of covers : all the best - Steve
Good information about polly tunnelsmy celery went to flower is it worthwhile keeping and it was outside
Last year's celery always goes to flower in spring, it not worth keeping, if it's this years then it was probably stress from the cold weather
How big is your polytunnel?
All the details are here: steverichards.notion.site/Polytunnel-Design-and-Growing-Guide-e260fa0b71bd4dea9a9003c74bdb9ce7?pvs=4 : All the best - Steve
Many thanks
You practice "no dig" ?
In the sense that no one ever digs raised beds then yes, but not in the Charles Dowding Sense, i.e. "no dig solves every problem in gardening" : all the best - Steve
Here's a better answer steverichards.notion.site/Looking-after-the-soil-12e8a30590914f1ea73cc20fd9d04444?pvs=4
I am surprised you are keeping celery in the polytunnel. I thought it would hate that heat Steve.
It actually does really well, but it was really my first early crop, for harvesting in late spring, it's a bit late because it was behind the calabrese and very shaded and then it was over-crowded by the tomatoes, not ideal. So now it's finally where it should have been in May. People talk about how it needs to be kept wet and to basically grow in a bog, that's rubbish, it does fine treated the same as the tomatoes : All the best - Steve
I do have plenty of celery outside too, but it's weeks behind the polytunnel plants
@@SteveRichards wow I am astonished. I have some in a bed in a greenhouse and planned to dig it up.
I do only use it as a cut and come again crop though, I don’t leave it in there until autumn
@@SteveRichards yes, I only grow Hadrian as cut and come again. It is lovely.