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Tomatoes and badly placed greenhouse
I have inherited a 6ft X 8ft greenhouse with my house and garden.
I would like to grow some tomatoes. Now the greenhouse is not best positioned. The long axis points approximately South East. (a bit more to the east perhaps.) But worse on one side immediately adjacent is the garden shed. This is on the eastern side where the morning sun should come in. I was considering putting the tomatoes on the shed side. Until I noticed where the sun was going. Would they be better on the sunny side? If so how much better? Because I have other things I want to grow as well. At present at just before noon in mid April with the sun shining there is no sun reaching the shaded side. Moving anything is not on. I was thinking of using Ring Culture but using Coir fibre in the base where some would use gravel or peat. It is a matter of convenience and of environmentally frienliness. Would coir be OK? -- Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/ "At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog National Nature Reserve |
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Tomatoes and badly placed greenhouse
Neil, IMO whilst not ideal, I think you should be fine. I would say that the
temperature of the greenhouse is more important than direct sun (which can be too severe). Sunlight is more important for the actual ripening of the tomato, so by that time your plants should be getting more sunlight anyway. Others may disagree:-) Good luck Jonny Neil Jones wrote in message ... I have inherited a 6ft X 8ft greenhouse with my house and garden. I would like to grow some tomatoes. Now the greenhouse is not best positioned. The long axis points approximately South East. (a bit more to the east perhaps.) But worse on one side immediately adjacent is the garden shed. This is on the eastern side where the morning sun should come in. I was considering putting the tomatoes on the shed side. Until I noticed where the sun was going. Would they be better on the sunny side? If so how much better? Because I have other things I want to grow as well. At present at just before noon in mid April with the sun shining there is no sun reaching the shaded side. Moving anything is not on. |
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