Greenhouse Tips - Page 2

 

Broadback wrote:

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

 

Robert (Plymouth) wrote:

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!

 


|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.