Would love to see how you get on with the bananas was going to try pineapples myself this year but due to certain things happening in life didn't end up doing it
No joke Sean, wonder what other opportunities will arise with these spells of dryness recently. Tropical fruits, weather tolerant seeds and the like. Worthy of a video gents 👍🏻
Its 82 degrees here, or 27.7 Celsius, and I thought it felt pretty good out. Its usually in the low to mid 90's here this time of year. That's 32 - 35 C. I guess the UK is farther north than we are here in the states. My plants are growing like weeds here. Keep up the good work Tony! You're a joy to watch!
However tempting, dont water the polly or greenhouse floor when you are growing toms as you are inviting the dreaded blight which thrives in hot n humid conditions! Just aim to get more air through the polly by opening both doors, day and night, and taking off the lower leaves of the tom plants to promote better air circulation.
You need to get shade cloth to put over the top of your polytunnel. We have to do that here in the States because we can get 110 degrees here. Sweet corn loves the heat, and lots of water.
Feel your pain Tony, I have become a watering slave to my plot at present, no rain here in Newport South Wales for 5 weeks and we are bone dry all the soil in the beds have huge cracks in it and everything is bolting or keeling over!! I water as and when i can at all different times of the day cos i think some water is better than no water but man its a challenge!
Thanks for the video Tony. I have double doors on my tunnel, i lined the doors with mesh instead of plastic then made frames with plastic on that i insert inside the netting on cold nights and in the winter, best of both worlds.
I love you pronunciation of the varieties of things Tony, its great. Your broccoli is looking amazing I have one tiny head forming on mine I am quite excited to eat homegrown calebrese for the first time. My broadbeans are not as pristine as yours. I have been squishing blackfly for a while now, but I am getting beans. I hope the lady birds arrive soon. Squishing blackfly is gross 🤢 We hit 32C last weekend and it has been sitting about 28 most days here in Surrey. I decided to leave my greenhouse door open at night but have put up some scaffold netting in the door way to help deter the cats and foxes from going in. I have a couple of very curious visiting cats that are always looking in my greenhouse and I wouldn't want them to get caught in there.
Get yourself a roll of Scaffolding netting the length of your tunnel and unroll it over the top of your tunnel & attach some string to secure it to the ground this will shade your tunnel and help a bit
Cut those stems off at the base on your celeriac. With everything else just keep up the water. I'm in South Australia which I'm sure you know, is like living on the sun in summer. Plenty of water early in the morning and most things will survive. Things may wilt through the heat of the day, but if you've given them heaps of water in the morning they'll be fine. Good luck and keep cool Tony. If it's any comfort to you it's cold, grey, wet and windy here at the moment. lol
Oh yeah. Celeriac has gone to seed. They are bog plants and like to stay wet. Might be too hot there now. Peppers like the heat so they will do ok. But May need to change the way you do tomatoes and plant them outside of the weather stays this way in future. Good luck! Mine is finally getting a break from the heat here in Nebraska. Finally got a 2” rain! Hadn’t rained in weeks.
I had to put hay down as a mulch, in some places thick Ruth Stout style, strawberries today I had to put the pots in cat litter trays with water. Been really hot for 6 weeks in the South, rained once. Summer Raspberries have given up but strawberries and blackberries doing ok. I don't have the time to water everyday. My outdoor cucumber has been under a shade cloth for two weeks now.
I'm surprised that you are not top dressing the soil with mulch whether it be in the greenhouse, polytunnel or raised beds??? A light dressing of grass clippings will help hold the moisture. Even cardboard after a water. Or get a shade cloth for the polytunnel. Watering that much washes away the soil nutrients.
Shade cloth is your friend when the temperatures get like this Tony. Over the polytunnel and also over the plants that are still in pots and trays, alternatively place them in whatever shade you can find? Filling the pots with water may help but last summer I literally boiled the roots on all my brassicas! You could also place fans in the greenhouse at home….might help?
Yes the celeriac is bolting. Not really surprising with the heat we have right now. Iv got so many plants waiting to get planted out. But it is just way to hot. 🥵
It’s unbelievable how hot it’s been , here in Cornwall we’ve had no rain in over 5 weeks , my outside tomatoes look the same as yours in your Polytunnel , I’m watering constantly and the ones in pots have the plastic saucers to catch the water, I think I might try Bananas next year if these hot summers become the norm.😂
it's so so hot and dry, we're not used to it. I water every morning, so they're set for the day, but it's better to water midday or evening if the plants are wilting. The celeriac is bolting ;-)
We're forecasted some rain here in Lancashire from the weekend onwards, so hopefully you'll get some where you are. Seeing your struggles with keeping your polytunnel cool enough has caused me to think about the self- build (pallet and trampoline poles) design of the one I intend to make. Was it a lot better once you'd opened the back door wider? I'm wondering if I'd better make extra openings at the sides somehow aswell as front and back because this heat seems to be the norm every year now. I hope all your veg survives. My spinach has all started to bolt slightly but it's not too bitter yet so I'm going to pull it all up and eat as much as I can.
Yep, they've gone to seed Tony, however, I have had 3 celery and 2 celeriac go to seed, I cut off the seeded stem and I have fresh leaves growing up from the bases which I'm harvesting. I don't think the base of my celeriac will be any good, but I basically grow it for the leaves anyway.
Tony its hot down here in Cornwall some things are ok Onions seem to have done well but alot is struggling. It was 82 in my Polytunnel at 10am this morning Thursday,
I used to dig my polytunnel cover into the ground and had same problems, last year I adjusted my strategy and left about 12” gap and it works beautifully.. Let’s all the bees in and had my best ever crop of tomatoes just along from you in South Shields.. Saves a few quid on the cover too..
There’s no problem watering in the heat of the day, nurseries do it all the time and it doesn’t burn the leaves at all 🙂 I try to water in the mornings and avoid evenings so the moisture has time to evaporate and reduce the risk of fungal disease. We get to 40C at times here in summer and have to shade our outdoor plants or they can get sun scald 🥵
I am loosing plants for the opposite reason Tony, I live near Cape Town ( grew up in Morpeth) and we are experiencing non stop torrential rain ..my raised containers look like rice paddy fields.
Sorry Tony, no great pearls of wisdom, regards keeping stuff alive in hot weather. But that Bosch water pump you put us onto a few weeks ago, priceless in this weather, cheers dude 👍🏻
The celeriac are going to seed. A bit early in the season, did they get some cold nights earlier in the season. More likely to go to seed if the temperature goes below 10 degrees Celsius
We’re getting much needed rain. Lightening strikes too, but so far no fires right near our village. It’s nice to be able to curl up inside and just dream of giant veg! 😂👩🌾👍🇨🇦❤️🥰🍅
Tony, do you have old tshirts you could cut in half from the sides and use as a shade cloth inside your tunnel on top of your wires using clips to keep them from falling? They do his in California gardens and it gives the plants a shady spot and do well….
Got blackfly on the broad beans yesterday here in Cumbria, the tops are fine, they settled on the beans themselves. Too hot, too dry. I'm cooking and so is the garden.
Tony i know it's said don't water in the heat of the day it seems ok to turn the sprinklers on in Spain so i just get on with it they seem to do ok plenty of their foods in the stores so Tony water away BA94Antrim n Ireland Tony it's 26 degrees here
Brand new to growing in a polytunnel and get hit by a heatwave in North West Cumbria 😢. I'm struggling but just about keeping things alive... Things are bolting left, right and centre 😮
If celeriac is anything like growing celery, they literally need to be bathing in water, as much as possible. Celery is actually a bog plant, so I'd assume celeriac is similar. Yours may be going to seed if it's dried out too much. When I grew my celery last year in containers, I made sure they were saturated every day and had big saucers under the pots so they could sit in the drained out water. Update: It does need to be consistently moist but not waterlogged like celery can be, because otherwise it can cause rot and fungal disease on the celeriac :)
Hi Tony, are there any allotments empty on your site? . I've had my name down with Sunderland council for an allotment plot since 2016 and still not got one. I'm 3rd in place
Very little blackfly this year. Many reporting same. Was terrible last year. Plant a few nasturtiums next to your beans and if Blackfly are around they’ll go on the nasturtium instead
Pretty much I usually just grow an overwinter crop sown in October. Usually it is all harvested by 2nd week June and never get blackfly. This year that crop was destroyed by the very prolonged cold spell in december. Was resown in Jan and now has blackfly - looks like it needs 2 more weeks before harvesting
i just got my allotment in april watching this is helps alot .i lost my moms in feb to cancer and having the allotment changed my life x
Next year I'm thinking of growing bananas and pineapples.
Would love to see how you get on with the bananas was going to try pineapples myself this year but due to certain things happening in life didn't end up doing it
Sean if your going to grow Bananas, make sure you leave lots of space around them as they like to move around
Get a solar operated fan or two Tony. A silver sheet across some of the poly tunnel will help.
No joke Sean, wonder what other opportunities will arise with these spells of dryness recently. Tropical fruits, weather tolerant seeds and the like. Worthy of a video gents 👍🏻
Its 82 degrees here, or 27.7 Celsius, and I thought it felt pretty good out. Its usually in the low to mid 90's here this time of year. That's 32 - 35 C. I guess the UK is farther north than we are here in the states. My plants are growing like weeds here. Keep up the good work Tony! You're a joy to watch!
However tempting, dont water the polly or greenhouse floor when you are growing toms as you are inviting the dreaded blight which thrives in hot n humid conditions! Just aim to get more air through the polly by opening both doors, day and night, and taking off the lower leaves of the tom plants to promote better air circulation.
You need to get shade cloth to put over the top of your polytunnel. We have to do that here in the States because we can get 110 degrees here. Sweet corn loves the heat, and lots of water.
It's not rained for about 35 days and been on a hose pipe band since the 12 may, fab vlog Tony 🥰
Feel your pain Tony, I have become a watering slave to my plot at present, no rain here in Newport South Wales for 5 weeks and we are bone dry all the soil in the beds have huge cracks in it and everything is bolting or keeling over!! I water as and when i can at all different times of the day cos i think some water is better than no water but man its a challenge!
I having been shouting at you on your recent videos to open that other door. I also seem to remember Steve telling you to do that in the past 👍
Thanks for the video Tony. I have double doors on my tunnel, i lined the doors with mesh instead of plastic then made frames with plastic on that i insert inside the netting on cold nights and in the winter, best of both worlds.
I love you pronunciation of the varieties of things Tony, its great. Your broccoli is looking amazing I have one tiny head forming on mine I am quite excited to eat homegrown calebrese for the first time. My broadbeans are not as pristine as yours. I have been squishing blackfly for a while now, but I am getting beans. I hope the lady birds arrive soon. Squishing blackfly is gross 🤢
We hit 32C last weekend and it has been sitting about 28 most days here in Surrey. I decided to leave my greenhouse door open at night but have put up some scaffold netting in the door way to help deter the cats and foxes from going in. I have a couple of very curious visiting cats that are always looking in my greenhouse and I wouldn't want them to get caught in there.
Get yourself a roll of Scaffolding netting the length of your tunnel and unroll it over the top of your tunnel & attach some string to secure it to the ground this will shade your tunnel and help a bit
Cut those stems off at the base on your celeriac. With everything else just keep up the water. I'm in South Australia which I'm sure you know, is like living on the sun in summer. Plenty of water early in the morning and most things will survive. Things may wilt through the heat of the day, but if you've given them heaps of water in the morning they'll be fine. Good luck and keep cool Tony. If it's any comfort to you it's cold, grey, wet and windy here at the moment. lol
External shade cloth helps keep my greenhouse from the extremes of the day. Drops the temperature by about ten degrees.
Hi Tony, great video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
It’s absolutely mafting isn’t it 🥵 it took ages to get here in the NE and now it’s too hot 😂
Enjoy your tea! Tracy
Oh yeah. Celeriac has gone to seed. They are bog plants and like to stay wet. Might be too hot there now. Peppers like the heat so they will do ok. But May need to change the way you do tomatoes and plant them outside of the weather stays this way in future. Good luck! Mine is finally getting a break from the heat here in Nebraska. Finally got a 2” rain! Hadn’t rained in weeks.
I had to put hay down as a mulch, in some places thick Ruth Stout style, strawberries today I had to put the pots in cat litter trays with water. Been really hot for 6 weeks in the South, rained once. Summer Raspberries have given up but strawberries and blackberries doing ok. I don't have the time to water everyday. My outdoor cucumber has been under a shade cloth for two weeks now.
Its ok Tony. Just like your sweet corn, I was dropped on my head as a child as well, and I survived! 😆
I'm surprised that you are not top dressing the soil with mulch whether it be in the greenhouse, polytunnel or raised beds??? A light dressing of grass clippings will help hold the moisture. Even cardboard after a water. Or get a shade cloth for the polytunnel. Watering that much washes away the soil nutrients.
Shade cloth is your friend when the temperatures get like this Tony. Over the polytunnel and also over the plants that are still in pots and trays, alternatively place them in whatever shade you can find? Filling the pots with water may help but last summer I literally boiled the roots on all my brassicas! You could also place fans in the greenhouse at home….might help?
Yes, celery is going to seed 😊
Yes the celeriac is bolting. Not really surprising with the heat we have right now.
Iv got so many plants waiting to get planted out. But it is just way to hot. 🥵
It’s unbelievable how hot it’s been , here in Cornwall we’ve had no rain in over 5 weeks , my outside tomatoes look the same as yours in your Polytunnel , I’m watering constantly and the ones in pots have the plastic saucers to catch the water, I think I might try Bananas next year if these hot summers become the norm.😂
it's so so hot and dry, we're not used to it. I water every morning, so they're set for the day, but it's better to water midday or evening if the plants are wilting. The celeriac is bolting ;-)
7:42 Your broccoli is looking fantastic Tony! I never have any luck at all with brassicas! Looking forward to seeing them at harvest!
Iv not had any black flies on my broad beans either and they all need harvesting in the next few days.
You should get a soaker hose Tony i have just got one is best purchase i have mad
We're forecasted some rain here in Lancashire from the weekend onwards, so hopefully you'll get some where you are.
Seeing your struggles with keeping your polytunnel cool enough has caused me to think about the self- build (pallet and trampoline poles) design of the one I intend to make. Was it a lot better once you'd opened the back door wider? I'm wondering if I'd better make extra openings at the sides somehow aswell as front and back because this heat seems to be the norm every year now.
I hope all your veg survives. My spinach has all started to bolt slightly but it's not too bitter yet so I'm going to pull it all up and eat as much as I can.
Hi Tony if you rost the brocoli with a squzze of lemon it is very tasty with potatoes.
My beans were covered in Black fly so pulled them up we dont use many so only had a few plants but never seen them so bad,
Yep, they've gone to seed Tony, however, I have had 3 celery and 2 celeriac go to seed, I cut off the seeded stem and I have fresh leaves growing up from the bases which I'm harvesting. I don't think the base of my celeriac will be any good, but I basically grow it for the leaves anyway.
Tony its hot down here in Cornwall some things are ok Onions seem to have done well but alot is struggling. It was 82 in my Polytunnel at 10am this morning Thursday,
Solar powered fans and some silver foil from diy retailer will help Tony.
I used to dig my polytunnel cover into the ground and had same problems, last year I adjusted my strategy and left about 12” gap and it works beautifully..
Let’s all the bees in and had my best ever crop of tomatoes just along from you in South Shields..
Saves a few quid on the cover too..
How does the cover hold in the wind without digging it to the ground
I fitted 2x3” wood all way round and secured cover too it, I have clear tri cell sheets that fit under nicely to keep heat in when it’s winter.
Rest In Peace, Sweet corn, Haha, Tony :)
There’s no problem watering in the heat of the day, nurseries do it all the time and it doesn’t burn the leaves at all 🙂
I try to water in the mornings and avoid evenings so the moisture has time to evaporate and reduce the risk of fungal disease. We get to 40C at times here in summer and have to shade our outdoor plants or they can get sun scald 🥵
I am loosing plants for the opposite reason Tony, I live near Cape Town ( grew up in Morpeth) and we are experiencing non stop torrential rain ..my raised containers look like rice paddy fields.
Sorry Tony, no great pearls of wisdom, regards keeping stuff alive in hot weather.
But that Bosch water pump you put us onto a few weeks ago, priceless in this weather, cheers dude 👍🏻
I've had allotment for years never been as bad as this lost loads of plants, April to blame so cold and wet, now this warm spell , dont look good 😢
Quality content as always 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The celeriac are going to seed. A bit early in the season, did they get some cold nights earlier in the season. More likely to go to seed if the temperature goes below 10 degrees Celsius
Hi Tony could you trial the olla watering system in your polytunnel Please ( love the show) x
Thanks Michelle that was a nice video.
We’re getting much needed rain. Lightening strikes too, but so far no fires right near our village. It’s nice to be able to curl up inside and just dream of giant veg! 😂👩🌾👍🇨🇦❤️🥰🍅
Tony, do you have old tshirts you could cut in half from the sides and use as a shade cloth inside your tunnel on top of your wires using clips to keep them from falling? They do his in California gardens and it gives the plants a shady spot and do well….
Got blackfly on the broad beans yesterday here in Cumbria, the tops are fine, they settled on the beans themselves. Too hot, too dry. I'm cooking and so is the garden.
Our car said 38 39 yesterday and today 😮 its pretty warm and my seedlings are struggling
Tony i know it's said don't water in the heat of the day it seems ok to turn the sprinklers on in Spain so i just get on with it they seem to do ok plenty of their foods in the stores so Tony water away BA94Antrim n Ireland Tony it's 26 degrees here
I’ve had to move my melon plants, I’ve lost 3 the others I’ve had to put in the shade …they were wilting
I feel this
All of my melons just fried. I'm so sad
could you use the boch water pump and connect it to an irrigation syster with the timer to help you out up the tunnel
Hi tony you should wear a hat in this heat as it’s so easy to get heatstroke
Glad the sweet corn is surviving...I don't feel so guilty about laughing after you dropped them
Brand new to growing in a polytunnel and get hit by a heatwave in North West Cumbria 😢. I'm struggling but just about keeping things alive... Things are bolting left, right and centre 😮
Tony go get some sweetcorn plants from shop and bang them in why there is still time :)
Tony buy some sweet corn from a garden centre if you can
If celeriac is anything like growing celery, they literally need to be bathing in water, as much as possible. Celery is actually a bog plant, so I'd assume celeriac is similar. Yours may be going to seed if it's dried out too much. When I grew my celery last year in containers, I made sure they were saturated every day and had big saucers under the pots so they could sit in the drained out water.
Update: It does need to be consistently moist but not waterlogged like celery can be, because otherwise it can cause rot and fungal disease on the celeriac :)
It's toooooooo hot . Never mind the veggies I'm blimmin wilting.
I’m sorry too say that those celeriac are going to seed. I hope it’s only those two and the other are ok.
have you heard of core gardening? Bury straw down the center of the bed. Holds moisture and feeds everybody.
If they're dying, you have to water them.....
Hi Tony, are there any allotments empty on your site? . I've had my name down with Sunderland council for an allotment plot since 2016 and still not got one. I'm 3rd in place
It’s stunning weather just enjoy it everyone. It’s summer. My plants are thriving
what plants and what kind of watering style/schedule are you using!? Help us Sensei!
can you not put some shade netting up like you do in green house
it has helped mine
That is one thing I can not grow Broad bean I always get black fly and lose ever plant.
Have you tried garlicwater with a few drops of washing up liquid?. Seems to work on mine. X
@@woodentops1394 Yes tried that it did work to a degree but I think the infestation was to great.Thank you.
Very little blackfly this year. Many reporting same. Was terrible last year. Plant a few nasturtiums next to your beans and if Blackfly are around they’ll go on the nasturtium instead
Pretty much I usually just grow an overwinter crop sown in October. Usually it is all harvested by 2nd week June and never get blackfly. This year that crop was destroyed by the very prolonged cold spell in december.
Was resown in Jan and now has blackfly - looks like it needs 2 more weeks before harvesting
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Peppers aubrigines doing great 👍 Everything else 😐😐😐😐
Tony you need to wear a hat in heat like that. Poor plants do struggle in the heat.
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Water in the morning to lure the slugs out into the hot sun…. If only, eh?
I would have counted to 10-15 LOL Get some water deeper down? Maybe the ground needs a proper soaking?