Vegetable Growing 2025

Sowed some sweet peas and hollyhocks in pots and then back in the garden room.
Harvested some more leeks, some better than others but still ours.

 

Yes you need to make sure it's listed as 30 g/sqm , the thinner 17 g/sqm isn't fit for purpose but that's what all the gardening centres sells. It just disintegrates after a season

 

Onward peas and Bunyards Exhibition broad beans sown in modules in greenhouse inside the blowaway(grow house) for double glazing effect.

 

I've got some pretty thick fleece, but TBH you would never grow anything under it, it hardly allows any light through, I only bought it for overnight cover which I remove during the day.
Not sure what its weight is.

 

I've seen 50gsm I wouldn't use that to grow under. Probably goes thicker still

I did post this before, I find it very useful to get plants off to a good start in spring/early summer
The benefit of fleece in spring

 

The farmers round here grow organic brassicas on some of the suitable fields, Swedes in particular are all grown under fleece. It's left on all season, keeps the Cabbage White Butterflies off the crop along with other pests.

 

Traps set?

 

@infradig even with traps I have found peas and beans taken - mice don't seem to be bothered by their dead friends! I sow mine in units under a secure perspex cover with a weight on top to stop them getting in!

 

My growing shelf is doing well, I have early tomato and chillis germinated plus snap peas, turnip and beet in cells to go out in the greenhouse soon plus ginger root shooting. All are not too drawn so they must be getting enough light.