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Yes it has been a difficult spring and especially for your first one. I am rejecting many more outdoor lettuce leaves than usual, slug damage mostly. Also I have had the same experience of slow germination being simply due to low temperatures. Last week I put my propagator thermostat on 30 instead of 20C as there has been so little sun by day to warm the greenhouse, although the weekend was good. Hang in there! and you may not need to fleece your tunnel tomatoes, being on a hillside where cold air at night should not gather.
sorry I forgot to answer that one – yes they need feeding if grown in containers as they are such greedy plants! Whereas soil gives them long and deep root runs and I find they do fine without feed – but in poor soils some feed may be good.
my basil in a cold greenhouse is only just showing the 2 seed leaves – sown about a month ago. I sowed some Genovese, red basil [forgotten the name] and some lemon basil. The lemon and the red have germinated but not the Genovese – it may decide to come through in the next few days!!
My poor garlic chives look as if they have a fungus growing on them they have turned blue and furry! Think it is probably time to give up on them germinating.
How long should french beens take they have been in a grow house 2 weeks and no sign. Should I give up on them too or hang in there for a bit longer?
Yes it is low temperatures. Sometimes we are lucky with fine weather for early sowings but French beans and basil this year have not yet seen enough warmth to start growing healthily, even indoors: cucumber and melon ditto. Ideally I would sow again next week, after this cold spell eases a little… and the garlic chives, yes try again!
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