My outdoor tomatoes are wrapped in a ‘four poster bed’ to try and keep them warm. Canes have been placed at the edges of the raised bed, then a double thickness of white fleece pegged around them. This stays up 24 hours and has been useful to protect them from the cold high winds.
Every night, a single fitted sheet is pegged into place over the top. It helps with the cold overnight temperatures we have been having. The sheet is removed every morning to allow light onto the tomatoes.
The tomatoes and peppers living in the greenhouse are growing better.
It is ridiculous, almost halfway through June and they, as am I most days, are still dressed for winter!
Yes the weather is very frustrating, isn't it. Most of the plants in our garden - both veggies and flowers - have come to a standstill and aren't really growing much at all.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for raspberries that don't need sun or warmth to ripen!
ReplyDeleteVeg outside are slowly doing nothing much and in the greenhouse all are too leggy from lack of light.
Things can only get better!
Its like January in June. Our tomatoes in the greenhouse are struggling, I think its lack of light and the cold too. I managed to pick a small vase of roses which hadn't been too bashed about by the rain to brighten up the lounge. Xx
ReplyDeleteThe coldest night in the greenhouse last week was 4.5C! Everything struggling here, think we need some good sunny spells.
DeleteMy greenhouse plants are miserable. No other word for it
ReplyDeleteGreenhouse plants not too bad but everything else, flowers, fruit and vegetables outside are pale and sickly. No end of sowings have failed.
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