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.
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!
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
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.
You leave the flowers in the store??
morrisons certaily aren't as generous as they charge 99p for 5 or 6 of those flower buckets
Tim - I'm still waiting for someone to buy me the flowers!
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
its worth asking at independant florists too-ours sell then 5 for a quid-but still cheaper than plantpots- :D
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