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Tony P,
Hi, I am going to try and overwinter my bell peppers this Winter. How did you get on with doing so last year..
I guess the questions are: Is there any improvements in production compared to freshly raised plants and are they any earlier?
I feel that any way of overwintering plants can only reduce the annual bottleneck of very full greenhouse staging each spring so my plants are going to be healed in in the greenhouse border until May next year….Like you use of the plastic green house shelves as a cover for your plants.
Overwintering last year was more down to laziness and guilt over killing an otherwise healthy plant than any deliberate action. At the time they were in pots, so I just brought them into the house – can’t do that this time but hoping it will be mild enough that with a fleece they’ll be OK.
Yield wise I did get more off of this year’s plants, but the older ones were still potted at the time so may have been a little stunted. If they survive, I’m interested to see how new, 1 year and 2 year old plants compare.
@Colin – Ha! Good catch 🙂 You’re right, they’re the shelves from one of those plastic greenhouse things 🙂 I dismantled it when I put the beds in, they’re ideal for keeping birds off the lettuce
Hello, I was looking into this tool lately GPS Fields Area Measure https://apple.co/2PdI9UT since I need a proper tool for my garden. So thought maybe you heard something about it and have any comments?
Hi Lottie, my allotment is also heavy clay and over the past 5 years, since it became no-dig, I have used two types of compost to top up the beds each autumn or spring (depending on how I feel about the weather!) I buy jumbo bags from Springbridge, West London, either their spent mushroom compost or their multi purpose blended topsoil. The latter I have found better for making a new bed and then planting or seeding direct into, the former tends to be quite dry and grainy and is wonderful for potatoes and for lightening heavy ground. They also do loose loads at a good price if you have to fill a large area. I buy for the other allotmenteers and we share it out. I am sure, if you are not a Londoner, that you have somewhere local that does similar product.
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