There is so much to do in January! Its not so much that its the start of a new year but having passed the winter equinox life starts to return to our gardens and its the perfect time to get ready for this year’s bumper harvests in the fruit and vegetable garden.
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Another lovely post. You are very relaxing to listen to. Nice calm voice and great clear advice. Would be good to hear temperatures in centigrade as well farenheit as this is what I use. Looking forward to your post on propagators as I am not getting the best out of my own (expensive) Vitapod. Think this is mainly due to lack of light from all directions, but perhaps also my lack of attention to detail, the temperature that I set being good for some seeds, but not for others, or perhaps just poor or difficult to germinate seed. Having said that I still grew lots of things successfully from seed last year and completely agree with you that propagators are great and very quickly pay for themselves, even taking into consideration the cost of the electricity.
Tried forcing my rhubarb last year using an upturned black plastic dustbin with a rock to weigh it down. However nothing much happened, and the slugs were attracted to the warm dark environment (I had also put straw around the crowns). Could have been the v cold weather in Feb/Mar I guess.
Hi Becky
I understand what you mean about propagator temperatures. What I tend to do with mine is to start off with those seeds needing the really high temperatures ie chillies, peppers aubergines, then reduce it down once they are through as they will quite happily grow at the temperatures needed for cucumbers tomatoes etc.
In my experience one of the biggest contributors to germination is seed freshness and wherever possible I try to use fresh seed each year.
With my rhubarb I tend not to exclude all of the light initially and leave the top of the forcer and then once I have sufficient growth, I put on the top to force it to blanch. The problem with slugs is one we all get the minute we create a warm dark environment.
Mark
hi mark just wondering in what area you are doing your gardening. regards steve
Hi Steve
I am in the South West of the UK,Cornwall to be exact!
mark
Hi Mark very good video as ever many thanks, could you do some more on fruit? thanks again Bill
Hi Bill
Just posted a new film on pruning gooseberries which you may find helpful. What other films on fruit would you like to see?
Mark