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Post by merlin on May 4, 2011 16:56:38 GMT
Yeah, we should have a tunnel warming party. ;D Yeah but it would be so warm in there you would want to replicate your famous picture ;D  We'd all get 'tunnel vision'  |
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Post by Lou78W on May 4, 2011 16:58:49 GMT
OMG!!!! ;D....I have a reputation to live up to here you know!!   |
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Post by Rosie on May 5, 2011 12:16:01 GMT
Ha ha Rosie. Tel will never live that down. I wouldn't know where to look if he did do it Cherry  ;D |
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Post by steve on May 5, 2011 18:06:54 GMT
I think you would  |
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Post by Lou78W on May 5, 2011 20:18:26 GMT
:oAhem.....could we stick to topic here.....its hot enough in the polytunnel already  |
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Post by merlin on May 6, 2011 6:02:28 GMT
According to AG, B&Q did a survey and discovered that 37% of us plan to grow at least half of their veg this year. If a polytunnel will extend the season all well n' good. I look forward to reports from Lou and Rosie on harvesting when the rest of us are shopping for it.
If I had room I'd defienately have one.
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Post by merlin on May 6, 2011 6:13:32 GMT
Just a thought, how do you pollenate in a polytunnel?
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Post by wildlifefriendly on May 6, 2011 6:35:49 GMT
That is an interesting question. I grew tomatoes in my new greenhouse last year and the crop was very poor, I wondered if it was down to poor pollination.
This year I shall be planting up the raised bed outside to attract more insects, last year there was nothing else flowering for quite a distance.
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Post by Tel on May 6, 2011 6:46:56 GMT
That is an interesting question. I grew tomatoes in my new greenhouse last year and the crop was very poor, I wondered if it was down to poor pollination. This year I shall be planting up the raised bed outside to attract more insects, last year there was nothing else flowering for quite a distance. I give my tomato plants a shaking every time i pass, when they are in flower. |
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Post by Lou78W on May 6, 2011 7:02:11 GMT
Good question Merlin ;D. The plan is to grow a few flowers in there to attract polinating insects...perhaps a dahlia or two . The doors will be open a bit too to let them in. I shake my tom plants in the greenhouse and there's always polinating by hand...I have a spare make up brush I can use  |
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Post by Geranium on May 6, 2011 8:23:39 GMT
Is that to make the tomatoes blush, Lou? ;D
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Post by Rosie on May 6, 2011 8:42:58 GMT
I think you would ME, never our Steve. I am as pure and innocent as the driven snow slush ;D  I tap the canes on my toms too, i remember my father doing that when he grew tom's, always moneymaker too. |
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Post by Lou78W on May 6, 2011 10:01:39 GMT
Is that to make the tomatoes blush, Lou? ;D Ha..ha.... ;D |
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