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all change to cold weather. How to protect plants
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The weather change looks drastic and we could well be back to freezing temperatures. I am not the only one with healthy young seedlings and transplants to protect. I have a root trainer containing 40 plants ie chillis and peppers (some to give away) and another with 20 good tomatoes. They are in a cold small greenhouse and I just cover them with fleece at night but I may well bring them into the house if needed.
I have hundreds of other seedlings, flowers, brassicas, salad greens, carrots etc. How do you protect yours? what do you do about newly emerging potato shoots?
I have hundreds of other seedlings, flowers, brassicas, salad greens, carrots etc. How do you protect yours? what do you do about newly emerging potato shoots?
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Tougher plants covered by fleece or bubble. Fragile ones are in heated greenhouses. Seeds and cuttings are on a heated bench to be covered if temp really drops.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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i've got lots of dry roop plants I planted up in 1 inch pots, some showing some signs of growth, and all the young plants from the perenial lucky dip thing with T&M, in 5 inch pots, will they all survive stayng outside? I've not got a greenhouse so what alternatives could I try? Thank you0
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kazschow, I would either bring them in if possible or use fleece if you cannot. I am putting bubble wrap on top of my small polycarbonate greenhouses and bringing tomatoes, chillis , peppers and basil indoors. I hunted out my fleeces this morning and will cover my emerging carrots, roses.
Looking at the weather forecast, it will get very much worse day by day0 -
Thanks Kittie0
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Just to say I've had the same problem in the past, but seem to have solved it. I potted up all my aubergines, tomatoes, peppers & chillies while we had the lovely sunshine, then the nights started dropping very cold & here in the North Midlands, we've had big frosts most nights. To start with, I just fleeced my little plants, but they started to look a bit ropey from the extremes of temperature, so I dug out all the transparent pots from things like olives, coleslaw, etc, that I'd been saving to use as pots & put one over each plantlet. This seems to have worked as they are looking much better now. I still fleece them while these current frosts continue, but fleece over the top of the pot 'cloches' so I guess the double layer of insulation's helping. Also, I know this sounds obvious but I forgot to do it the first couple of warm days.....I'm shutting the greenhouse window while it's still warm outside to keep a bit of heat in. Hope your plants survive. Good luck!2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
2) To read 100 books (29/100)
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)0 -
it`s -1 now and will get colder. I am very glad I protected my vulnerable plants. I worked out the virtual value of my chillis, peppers and tomatoes alone and there are over 80 plants in total, Good strong plants too and they seem to retail at £2-3 each, for the chillis anyway esp as they are unusual ones.
We had to drive at 5am yesterday and had to scrape the car0 -
All my young plants im hardening off came back into the conservatory last night ... Not taking any chances, lolAnt. :cool:0
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