UK gardening - Greenhouse Tips

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Greenhouse Tips

Robert \(Plymouth\)

2007-05-25, 1:25 pm

This year I have a small greenhouse for the first time and am growing
tomatoes, peppers etc. Any handy tips from those who know, on anything to do
with this type of gardening will be greatly appreciated.

Pet Parker

2007-05-25, 1:25 pm

"Robert (Plymouth)" <beachcomber@ultimate-anonymity.com> wrote in message
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> This year I have a small greenhouse for the first time and am growing
> tomatoes, peppers etc. Any handy tips from those who know, on anything to
> do
> with this type of gardening will be greatly appreciated.
>
>

also cucumbers

also fit auto opening vents, bottom and top.

these are not too expensive and work of internal temperature.

Broadback

2007-05-25, 1:25 pm

Pet Parker wrote:
> "Robert (Plymouth)" <beachcomber@ultimate-anonymity.com> wrote in message
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> also cucumbers
>
> also fit auto opening vents, bottom and top.
>
> these are not too expensive and work of internal temperature.
>
>
>
My Father always claimed that cucumbers were not compatible with
tomatoes, the reason being that cucumbers love it humid, whereas toms
hate that.

shazzbat

2007-05-25, 5:25 pm

"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Pet Parker wrote:
> My Father always claimed that cucumbers were not compatible with tomatoes,
> the reason being that cucumbers love it humid, whereas toms hate that.

True, but most of us have one greenhouse, and limited facility to control
humidity. I have grown both in the same GH and they've both been acceptable
for our table. Maybe not professional quality, but they still go down a
treat. You can always spray the cukes regularly if you have the time and the
inclination.
Steve

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2007-05-25, 5:25 pm

On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:53:48 +0100, Broadback <wen@towill.plus.com>
wrote and included this (or some of this):

>My Father always claimed that cucumbers were not compatible with
>tomatoes, the reason being that cucumbers love it humid, whereas toms
>hate that.

I've grown toms and cucs together in an unheated greenhouse for years
and always had good results and good crops. I treat them the same,
feed them the same and water them the same.
Perhaps today's F1 hybrid toms and cucs are more prolific, forgiving
and disease-resistant than those available to your Father.

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Sam

2007-05-25, 5:25 pm

Robert (Plymouth) wrote:
> This year I have a small greenhouse for the first time and am growing
> tomatoes, peppers etc. Any handy tips from those who know, on anything to do
> with this type of gardening will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
Congratulations, Robert. This opens up a new dimension in gardening for you.
I had three seasons
1. Spring sowing
2. Summer vegetables
3. Autumn and winter plants e.g. chrysanths.also overwintering of
tender plants
and storage.

A tip I can give with tomatoes is to interplant with parsley.
They are companion plants and help each other.
Also grow some French marigolds to discourage whitefly and red spidermite.
Keep it organic otherwise you may as well go to the supermarket.
And be adventurous, try heritage plants. The Brandywine tomato is widely
considered to be the finest flavour in the world.The yellow brandywine will
grow to 2 lbs a fruit. The green zebra has a pleasant citrus flavour and
suitable for very hot weather (global warming?).
Enjoy!

Sam

2007-05-25, 5:25 pm

Broadback wrote:
> Pet Parker wrote:
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> My Father always claimed that cucumbers were not compatible with
> tomatoes, the reason being that cucumbers love it humid, whereas toms
> hate that.

Quite true but you'll need two greenhouses. They will grow together in one
greenhouse with careful husbandry.

Alexander Miller

2007-05-25, 9:25 pm

Sam <sam@profets.ot> wrote:

|Keep it organic otherwise you may as well go to the supermarket.

Well, maybe not. "Organic" has many definitions but regardless, I bet home grown
will nearly always taste better then the supermarket waterbags.

|The Brandywine tomato is widely
|considered to be the finest flavour in the world.

Having read that, I grew some. The flavour was VERY disappointingly. To
contradict myself: "Might as well have gone to the supermarket!" Haven't grown
them again.

I've arrived at the opinion that tomato flavour is sometimes dependent on
location. Case in point: Here in B.C. we emigrants were very nostalgic for the
remembered taste of "Lanarkshire tomatoes." Father-in-law duly smuggled in some
which we eagerly devoured while saving some seed. Germinated & ultimately
harvested.it was --- Blah! No flavour in the locally-grown fruit..

Our favourite here is called Camp Joy - a very sweet, larger than usual, crack
resistant cherry tomato. If it exists in UK it's maybe called something
different - and doesn't taste so good! We also grow Super Early Latah for first
harvest, Principe Borghese for paste and Longkeeper for tomatoes in January.

We don't grow any hybrid tomatoes.

It's possible that the Brandywine we grew wasn't Brandywine at all , just
something else that got mis-labelled - but that wasn't the case with the
"Lanarks."

Alexander Miller
Port Alberni
Vancouver Island.

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