The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: sabrina on November 27, 2016, 07:24:08 pm
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Cleaned out the pollytunnel today and still had a few tomatoes left to pick. Been quite a good year and looking forward to what I end up growing next year. Already building up compost and horse muck ready for planting.I am thinking of giving the veg plot a rest, dig over and cover. What should I do for my apple trees at this time of year. Do I thin out my strawberry plants or leave for a 2nd season.
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Just cleared out my tomatoes. Now got curly kale, spinach and winter lettuce in the polytunnel. Starting off rocket, spring onions and early carrotsi there as well. I start them off in guttering suspended from the crop bars otherwise the mice eat them as they come through. Will plant them into the ground once they are established. Will be covering the potato and brassica beds with muck and then covering them woth black polythene shortly. Will do the other beds with compost. I dont dig them over now. Seems to work well.
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What a good idea, never thought of growing carrots in the pollytunnel due to mice. Tried spring onions one year and they got eaten. My veg plot is now full of weeds, farmer next to me has set aside and all the seeds seem to have blown my way. Just can't keep up with them all.
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Funnily enough, my morning was spent smothering veggie beds in poultry muck. Wanted to get it done before the cold blast this week; help get those frosts in to break everything down.
I've got kale and tomatoes left over from the season, and young pak choi and winter lettuce plants on the go.
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I've got half a dozen curly lettuce in tubs in the glasshouse planted them in the spent tomato tubs about thre weks ago for Christmas / boxing day salad stuff .
Last night 3 Dec usinghe sack barrow I took 12 still flowering Geranium tubs in to the glasshouse . Unheard of this late in the year & not have had them blackened with frost .
I've lit a candle in the glasshouse to act as a night heater in a cast iron pot , for tonight it looks & feels blinking cold . We are just showing 0 to 1 oC on the digital read out thermometer .