Friday continued along the month’s trend of sunny intervals with scattered showers and cool temperatures.
Even under the indoor grow light our tomato seedlings were starting to become a bit leggy. I’ve left them there thinking that they were better off than in the greenhouse where the over night temperatures have been falling pretty low. I finally decided to transplant them and move them into the greenhouse and hope I could give them extra protection overnight with some fleece.
The seedlings didn't look too bad once pricked out and set deep in the cells to overcome as much of the legginess as possible. Of course as expected the weather forecast was for an overnight frost so late in the afternoon the plants were covered with fleece.
Just as well that I gave them some extra TLC as the temperature outside fell to just 0.1°C whilst the greenhouse temperature fell to 1.5°C. It’s not the sort of temperature recommended for growing tomatoes.
This morning when the fleece was removed the seedlings looked to have survived. I’ve got some more tomato seedlings to prick out and move into the greenhouse. With more frosts forecast I’m going to have to trust in fleece for protection. Hopefully the weather will improve soon and give some better growing conditions.
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It's forecast to be even colder tonight. My tomatoes have a propagator cover on at night, then they're inside the mini plastic greenhouse which is zipped up inside the proper greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't look much better all next week. Some rain midweek before some more frosty nights nearer next weekend. What's happened to spring!
ReplyDeleteI have a plastic green house inside my glass green house this adds protection and in the day a bit of warmth to keep the tomato growing. they are a nice size now in a 9cm pot and due to be potted on next week as they are nearly ready for it.
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