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Where are you based, you may find getting green compost from the local council a bit cheaper than you have mentioned.
I have two chilli plants growing in the onion bed that I covered with compost in the winter, they are flowering despite the rain and wind and we don’t yet know what we are going to get. I do not save carrots and parsnips as we have wild versions of both growing all around us and they may cross so I get fresh ones every year. I do save lettuce tomatoes chilli peppers, beans and all the winter salads ( land cress chervil Greek cress frilly mustards etc. good luck
It may be a myth but scab is caused by dry conditions and we did have a very dry spring and early summer. You can still eat them just peel the skin off carefully, I am not sure if it is in the soil now and await more knowledge on this
We have been doing no dig and in our 4th growing season and have noticed that very few leaves damaged by slugs this year, we haven’t seen many at all. I think it was so dry in April and June and they don’t like the compost to crawl over. We have discovered hedgehogs in the garden and they have 2 babies as well and we have no slugs at home either. I do find the odd baby slug in the pointy cabbages though. Mice, however, are another big problems pinching all the bean seeds and replanting all over the other beds, I have found beans growing in very strange places.
Frank
could this be rabbits?
We have a real problem with them at the moment and I keep finding leeks out of planting holes on the ground
I am not sure how to stop them.
Good indicators are if they have dug holes in the compost eaten something down to the ground and find the poo near by
good luckGOOD Morning Mark and Charles
I live just across the Severn sea from you and my tomatoes re doing great in the polytunnel I planted out over a week ago so all is good so far.
I find that to give a rough estimate the night time temperatures in our tunnel ( 14’x 36′) are approximately 2 degrees c warmer than outside. If you have sunny days the temperature in the tunnel in the day time can go really high 40 C++ if the doors are not open. I agree with Don that the tomato leaves look like sun scorch I would not worry either but if a cold night is forecast then fleece may help. We are not far from you across the water in south wales and I have put my tomatoes out they are doing OK so far. Hope that helps and good luck
Sounds like Rats to me as well, we had them in the polytunnel in the winter and they dug deep holes towards the hot bed, they can dig deep!! i put pots on top of the holes they made it did seem to stop them.
Hi I have just been up to our polytunnel and the soil was very dry, so I have made 22 holes abut 30 cm diameter and filled with water and like Charles says it takes some time to saturate the area, so every day I will poor water into each hole let it drain out then fill again and by the end of the week or longer the soil will be lovely to work with. Good luck
Kevin
we have the same problem and it does work eventually. When you find the wind has seeded tiny docks they are easy to pull out of compost but the big ones keep trying to grow, we have just pulled one out of a 5 foot pile of wookdchips the dock appeared on the top of the pile from the ground amazing!!!
Plantmark
we use the Green compost from the council and yes it does get very hot and looks like it is carbonnising but if you leave it for a few weeks it cools down and believe me. it does not necessarily kill the fungi and mychorzial roots as we get lots of fungi growing after laying it down and everyone comments on the health of the plants we grow no dig so good luck
Ali