| #368 |
An unplanned trip back to the plot today as I was given some glass panels my next door neighbour at home wanted rid of. After looking at them in his shed I decided I could probably make use of them at the plot.
There are 9 single glased panels roughly 18" X 4 foot long. The intention is to cover more of my beds this autumn turning them basically into cold frames. Last year I experimented with this idea and had good results. I set some Japanese onion sets under cover and some without at the same time. At the end of the season I had a much earlier crop of bigger onions from the ones that were planted under glass.
This year I have enough glass to plant out autumn onion sets, elephant garlic,normal garlic, broad beans and spring cabbage plants all under glass as well as outdoors and will gaige the difference in crops.
The glass won't be left on all the time, only when we have the worst cold weather.
There are 9 single glased panels roughly 18" X 4 foot long. The intention is to cover more of my beds this autumn turning them basically into cold frames. Last year I experimented with this idea and had good results. I set some Japanese onion sets under cover and some without at the same time. At the end of the season I had a much earlier crop of bigger onions from the ones that were planted under glass.
This year I have enough glass to plant out autumn onion sets, elephant garlic,normal garlic, broad beans and spring cabbage plants all under glass as well as outdoors and will gaige the difference in crops.
The glass won't be left on all the time, only when we have the worst cold weather.
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