new greenhouse

Hi lads as you know iv'e been away from the laptop for a while but back now and trying to get used to this new all singing all danceing foremat .
To ad insult to injury this old computer illiterate has just found the greenhouse section, so heres one i posted earlier.
As you know recently had spinal surgery so can't play golf or go beachfishin for at least another year so the old slae driver has kindly bought me a glass 6x4 greenhouse on line (will be delivered 1st week in june.)
Got some mates putting a base down where do i go from here
cheers micky

 

It's getting a little late to plant up a greenhouse Micky particularly if it won't be ready until June. I'd suggest you head off to your nearest garden outlet and get a few tomato plants, pot them up into small pots, keep them on or near a window sill indoors and then plant into grow bags when the GH is up and ready. You will also probably get away with doing the same with cucumbers, though in both instances they'll crop late.

 

as usual dave you always come back with the answers not nessessaraly the ones i want to here?
thanks

 

I would also suggest going to a garden centre, buy a couple of the expensive varieties of tomato (like "shirley"), pot them up and grow them on. When the sideshoots are about 2-3" long, pick them off, dip in Rooting Hormone Powder and place in 7.5cm pots as cuttings. You should get seven or eight cuttings per plant, enough to fill your greenhouse.

 

Thanks larkshall have got 3 roma in my little £20 00 polythene one but will give it a try

 

To increase the side shoot supply wait until the plant gets about a foot tall and then lay the pot on its side. The plant will divert the resources (auxins) from the main growing tip (the highest one) to the all the stem shoots which are now equal highest :wink: