The To-Do List Just Got MUCH Smaller
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Unbelievable amount of work in this one. It really blows my mind how easy it can look on camera sometimes. A few of these clips are literally hours worth of work condensed into a few seconds of footage. Such good progress though!
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00:00 - Tomato Polytunnel Supports
04:36 - Spider Mite Misting
06:32 - Pea Frame & Direct Sowing
08:56 - Polytunnel Wire Doors
16:18 - Brassica Bed Prep
21:07 - Homemade Compost Extraction
25:33 - Planting Potato Pots
Love watching your channel. 👏👏👏
Nice to hear Steve's music again, good work again get toms in.
Danny from Growup (RUclips) has netting under his polytunnel door window panels which he can just pop off and put them back as needed. It was something similar!
For your strings for tomatoes look up hop twine, really strong natural fibres and you can get a couple of Years out of them
hinged screendoor with a hook latch or slide bolt
I couldn't really do hinged because of all the stuff either side of the doorways inside which is a bit of a shame
Just a heads up should have done a full door screen if your leaving them open all night , mainly I found moths will get in also rats can climb up the chicken wire .
Oh JB I so know the one… also had a list and crawled home feeling absolutely shattered! Tomorrow’s another day 😅🎉🎉🎉
The best knot for using with a tomato trellis. Taut line hitch. Quick to learn on RUclips and versatile in the garden. I've used it for all sorts when I need some tension.
Thank you! This sent me down a knot rabbit hole, always been meaning to learn a few
@@JBNat Love it. I often go back to them and practice when relaxing watching youtube or something. I also used the taught line hitch to make a small washing line to peg my gloves up to dry on the side of my shed :D.
For the doors, try small cup hooks & vine eyes...then you can just lift on & off.
I thought of this too! But on one door I don't have any frame space and it would make it quite tricky to lift from the outside!
Hi JB, really enjoy your videos. I've just got a First Tunnels polytunnel and made some inner mesh doors with hinges. For yours, as you said, perhaps use turn catches. 😊
I think over winter I will try something hinged and better actually. Maybe with a mesh to keep everything out! At the moment there's too much stuff in the way of a hinged door!
Congratulations for getting so much done, give yourself some credit, we are all behind. Jo Devon 🙂
You got loads done JB, all I did all weekend was about 3sqM of inch thick woody nettle roots, with a pick axe, couldn't move today lol
Haha 😄 your comment at the end about how long ago it felt since you did the jobs you started with! Time really expands when gardening it's like magic. Being outdoors in the dry is magic. I hope your Bank Holiday Monday was drier than ours. we were in and out and in again like a pair of yoyos! My sweet potato plugs still look a bit too puny to put in their big boy pots.
Hi JB, I really enjoy your videos. I recommend chopped straw as a mulch generally but especially for potatoes. It keeps them moist and protected from the sun. Best, Nancy
Great work on the poly. I had the same ventilation issues with mine. My solution was to plastic net the main doors the use smaller frames with sit inside the panels on the doors and cover them with the plastic. I was able to control the amount of ventilation I require. During a storm to during the winter I just kept all the internal frames in the doors. A simple wooden latches held every thing in place.
JB great job today yea we always have something to do in the garden and I hope that those mice don’t climb over the wire door because they could and they could get through 1/2 inch one also good luck in the garden JB 👍
That compost looks great!
Jb
I know this is a bit off topic but its about polytunnel rain water collectionn, i use plastic edging sections for tiles?
Can get it with self adesive backing on but i also stick over the bit that is meant to stick tiles too with polytunnel repair tape to hold it down?
On the plus you can put one on each corner of tunnel ( which i need to do yet) but it does work even though looks like it wont catch much.
Sorry to drone on.
Trev
Sounds interesting!
Well done. 🎉
Hi JB, if that doesnt work then i just used 2 lines of metal wire from the cross bars and then tied the diaganol string to that. Not too tight so you can push the front strings to the side giving more access to the plants behind. It works well for me.
Well done, you so deserve success.
Thanks Brenda!
jb your so ingenious love the bed frame
I've always used canes in the Quadgrows previously however this year I'm going string...well Paracord as recommended last year by a certain Tony C Smith if I recall correctly...So far so good. Pity you can't have Summer doors you could swop out with the standard ones to sort out the ventilation on your tunnel you'll have to pardon my ignorance here as I've never had a polytunnel much as I'd like one. On another note I haven't grown brassicas before for want of protection and I've never seen a brassica hoop cage as tall as yours...brilliant idea. Might be too late for me this year but next year... You pack more into an episode than Gardener's World and it's far more entertaining 😁
Summer doors to swap out is actually a really sensible suggestion. Would just need to buy some more timber and some of the little runners which screw into the top of the door. Might have that as a winter job!
🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻 nice jobs
Would have been good to have stable type doors on either end of the poly tunnel - could leave the tops open when necessary 🌿
Very productive day there 🌿 I always do the jobs I least want to do first - the rest don't seem as bad then - plant some beers underground for when you need a well deserved pint sat on your chair in the tunnel 🍺😜
A curtain at the top of the doors will stop birds from getting into the poly tunnel.
I did wonder about something like this. I think/hope the tunnel skin is quite visible to them. My Robin is definitely smart enough to recognise the doorway and comes and goes as he pleases without confusion!
compost looks good
Will be nice to see how the spacing for the tomatoes work out. Feels like it might be a bit tight? 🤔🤞That mister looked nice. Maybe I should get something similar to spray the plants a bit while they're flowering 🤔Could you not make like a pair of actual doors that only have the chicken wire that you only use when needed? Or are the doors hard to remove/replace? Those potato buckets look quite heavy! 😉Awesome video and well done with the todo list! 💪
Hahaha yes definitely quite tight. I might regret it. I should definitely grow fewer plants next year (I've never said this before)
@@JBNat Haha, nope! Never said that myself either, so no clue what you are talking about 😉
Hi JB, I understand about the heat in the polytunnel. I would like to leave mone open too but, the foxes like my plot too, they have already managed to get my solar fountain out of mu pond twice and chewed the top off, little buggers! I'm hoping it's still there when I go tomorrow. Nice framework, will be thinking if doing something similar, will be looking for wood in my hubby's shed tomorrow 😉 cannot believe it's been a year since Steve's passing 😢 I bet you will get a good crop of potatoes from your homemade compost. Great video, you need to do more exercise to get the stamina to sort your compost bays out 😂 thanks for sharing and take care 😊
I get plenty of exercise at the plot thank you Christine!!! Hahahah I was emptying that compost for like two hours though 🥵 and that was after about 6 hours on the plot! Fingers crossed the potatoes come out good 😊
I think I'm going to make full screen doors for the interior of the tunnel and hinge them onto the door frame.
JB mice and rats will climb up the chicken wire. Cup hooks and eye rings on frame might be an idea, just a thought.❤
Yes I did wonder about trying to properly rodent proof it but it seems like such a mission. Just needed a quick fox defence for this year.
How about a pair of gate latches for the polytunnel screen doors?
I don't have a greenhouse so haven't had to deal with low humidity issue but I have wondered whether it would be worth putting a largish container or bucket filled with water and put towels or clothes over the side so they wick water into the towels. Then the water evaporates with the heat and helps keep the air more humid. Maybe just a wet towel on the floor would work but I think the towel would dry out too fast.
Hi jb could the foxes 🦊 jump over into the poly tunnel ? Just saying sorry! you are working very hard well done 👏👏👏👏 enjoying your videos lv Irene 😘 xx
If they were really determined they definitely could but I'm hoping it will be enough to deter them 🤞
Ok… I hope it works for you … but I live in south florida… and its humid as heck…. I still get spider mites.
I need three square feet for each of our fave cherry tomatoes. And at least 2ft apart for a half decent crop of paste tomatoes.
Beefsteak? Doesn’t matter. We chop everything away to five healthy leaf branches above the first truss, otherwise our kitchen ends up nursing green tomatoes until someone volunteers to make a chutney! 😊
I love watching RUclipsrs taste testing their tomatoes, though. It’s fun and really enlightening. But our family prefer marinara sauce and tomato juice throughout winter. 😬
I'm so excited for this year's tomato tasting!!
You could have put your filled pots in a wheelbarrow and used it to take them to the side of the poly - less carrying
My wheelbarrow is far too dodgy to risk that 😅 I have a new one on the shopping list
@@JBNat trust you get your barrow soon,as a man with damaged.vertebra I can only
say what a godsend mine is
Don't worry. Your sunflowers are twice the size of mine. And your cosmos 5 times the size.
I thought it was just me that had stupidly tall purple sprouting broccoli, is there a shorter type ? Take care. X
I think you can get summer sprouting crops! They flower much earlier so you don't get such big plants and you get a reduced crop
Build a second sliding door on the opposite side?
Not quite enough room for a sliding door unfortunately! They require a large runner (you can see the big silver one on my outside) which would hit the top of the plastic
invest in a garden wagon lol save your knees and back
Make the door like a screen door
What size are your black potatoe pots?
30L from Oakland Garden :) designed with handles which are able to take the weight
@@JBNat i think i may have the same ones
I have conifer hedges which I inherited can I compost or hot compost clipping or are the too acid?
Dried conifers needles lose the acidity and definitely make decent compost. The green needles aren't going to make compost too acidic, if used with the right amount of carbon material.
Sorry but a fox could and probably will climb over those wire doors I've seen them climb a deer fence approximately 6ft high
They could climb the defensive netting all the way around it too, but often something like this is enough to put them off if they're just curious. 🤞
Growing sweet potatoes under your tomatoes may not be a good idea. They will compete for valuable nutrients and produce huge vines that may create viruses affecting the tomato plants. Perhaps growing tomatoes on one side of the tunnel and sweet potatoes on the other would work better. Would hate to see you lose all the work you've done growing and setting up your tomatoes.
Yes I think you might well be right! I might try one sweet potato plant in there but now the tomatoes are so dense it feels very risky! Might try some outside too and hope for a warm summer
Please don’t wear a vest again
Nobody is going to stop me hahaha 🛑 no other way I can work in the polytunnel when the sun is out!
😂 ye it’s crazy how warm it is when you’re trying to work in there isn’t it
Nice to hear Steve's music again, good work again get toms in.
Hi JB, if that doesnt work then i just used 2 lines of metal wire from the cross bars and then tied the diaganol string to that. Not too tight so you can push the front strings to the side giving more access to the plants behind. It works well for me.