2013 Tomato Growing

Fair enough

 

If you have a gas bottle already (e.g. BBQ) it might be worth keeping en eye on eBay / freecycle etc. for a gas greenhouse heater. I got one for about 20 quid. I think they are useful if you can't get power to greenhouse to give you a guaranteed minimum of 10C during the Spring. I reckon I could maintain that pretty easily from early March here, perhaps a bit later up your way though. Only need to light it on cold nights, and it has a thermostat (albeit rather crude and thus inefficient)

Just a thought.

 

Couple more updates for the list of whos growing wot - Ive just started off a couple of seeds of Tamina + a couple of Koralic

I now have too many plants on the go & its only the end of Feb...

 

I did that, it went through a full bottle of gas in five days, on minimum from 22:00 to 09:00 (It was the sort of gallon caravan tank type) I have a couple of what I would call normal size empties, which are cheaper to refill, but still very expensive (I am not Scrungee) :-)

Jack McH

 

Hmmm ... surprised it used that much, but sorry to hear it Jack.

Trouble with greenhouse heaters is inaccurate thermostats, and the little metal strip that bends which you get on gas heaters has to be the worse of all.

Worth using a Max/Min thermometer to see what range it gives from On to Off, sadly it may well be as much as 10C, which is very inefficient and thus expensive :(

Mine uses quite a lot of gas, and I heat with electric because it works out cheaper (I have a thermostat for the electric heat which has an on/off hysteresis range of only 0.5C which I reckon is pretty good.

 

Tick...tock...tick...tock...isn't it time to sow yet? Tick...tock...

 

2 or 3 more days to go Freddy

 

Hiya Jenny

I'm still resisting, but it is getting very frustrating!

 

You're further west than Jenny, you can sow 20 minutes earlier

 

No he can't, he'll be out of phase with the moon, if he's West it needs to be 20 minutes later surely?

 

A few of my babies are up and doing

 

They look gorgeous. I'm quite envious - would love to have a proper GH...
Jenny