Hi all!

Suddenly find myself with a greenhouse to play with for the first time! Have
tomatoes & chillies planted directly in the ground at the moment & they all
seem to be growing nicely.

But, at the end of the summer, when I've cropped and cleared the ground,
what could I put in there this autumn?

Are there any food crops I can grow overwinter? It's in full sun, unheated &
the soil is just the ordinary soil that used to be a lawn but I've dug in
some multi purpose compost & pelleted chicken manure to improve it somewhat.
We're a mixture of chalk, flint, Kent greensand & clay that doesn't sound
great but with the added compost & manure it seems fine!

Any tips welcome...

Les

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Hi all!

Suddenly find myself with a greenhouse to play with for the first time! Have
tomatoes & chillies planted directly in the ground at the moment & they all
seem to be growing nicely.

But, at the end of the summer, when I've cropped and cleared the ground,
what could I put in there this autumn?

Are there any food crops I can grow overwinter? It's in full sun, unheated &
the soil is just the ordinary soil that used to be a lawn but I've dug in
some multi purpose compost & pelleted chicken manure to improve it somewhat.
We're a mixture of chalk, flint, Kent greensand & clay that doesn't sound
great but with the added compost & manure it seems fine!

Any tips welcome...

Les


I plant winter lettuce. It is very cold here, and they dont grow very
quickly, but come early spring I move some outside and they seem to take
off ok.


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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

On Jun 6, 9:58*pm, Roger Tonkin wrote:
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Hi all!

Suddenly find myself with a greenhouse to play with for the first time! Have
tomatoes & chillies planted directly in the ground at the moment & they all
seem to be growing nicely.

But, at the end of the summer, when I've cropped and cleared the ground,
what could I put in there this autumn?

Are there any food crops I can grow overwinter? It's in full sun, unheated &
the soil is just the ordinary soil that used to be a lawn but I've dug in
some multi purpose compost & pelleted chicken manure to improve it somewhat.
We're a mixture of chalk, flint, Kent greensand & clay that doesn't sound
great but with the added compost & manure it seems fine!

Any tips welcome...

Les

I plant winter lettuce. It is very cold here, and they dont grow very
quickly, but come early spring I move some outside and they seem to take
off ok.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

You don't need a greenhouse for that. I sow lettuce in September and
leave it planted outside and they fatten up in early spring - some of
mine are bolting now.

Jonathan

Depends where you are. 400ft up in Yorkshire I can get very little to survive over winter because of the combination of cold and wet, and Roger is 700ft above sea level in mid-Wales.

In the greenhouse you can grow a variety of "winter" salads - choose the ones that say that they are designed for winter use. They grow very much more slowly than in summer, of course, so you have to have a lot of them on the go for any continuity of cropping.