No growbags

[northener]

With this been our first year with a greenhouse [no floor yet] we're going to manure the soil then put our toms and peppers straight in. Should it be ok ? i'm worried about them all been in the same ground if one gets diseased would they all be ruined.

[northener]

[tim]

The sort of disease you might get in the first season is unlikelyto spread through the soil. But it is recommended to sterilise the borders each year - or change the soil.

I'm sure many don't!

[cleo]

It will be fine-don`t worry. But it is true that over time the same soil may get diseases or a deficiency of some sort.

I change mine in the big greenhouse and polytunnel over three years,using muck and stuff from the compost bins-but it is hard work.

I also use a kind of `ring culture`-10inch plastic flower buckets with the bottom cut out-the buckets are filled with JINo3 and plunged into the soil.

Stephan

[Anne Robertson]

those flower buckets are really usefull, I got 30 free from Asda  ;D i asked for a few and she said help yourself to as many as you want. i don't know if the other stores are as generous.

[tim]

You leave the flowers in the store??

[johcharly]

morrisons certaily aren't as generous as they charge 99p for 5 or 6 of those flower buckets

[Anne Robertson]

Tim - I'm still waiting for someone to buy me the flowers!

[Columbus]

Hi all,

My local Sainsburys say they "send the buckets back" which is the best type of recycling but means I couldn`t have any.

Cleo ? When you use ring culture with buckets do you cut off all the bottom of the bucket or do you drill holes?

Col

[kitty]

its worth asking at independant florists too-ours sell then 5 for a quid-but still cheaper than plantpots- :D

[growmore]

Your Tomatoes should grow real fine straight in bed first year...But I would try to get your peppers off floor some how as in bottomless buckets boxes etc as  Mr slug loves em ...Cheers ..Jim