We (www.pennix.co.uk) used to have a greenhouse where we planted directly
into the soil, but as I understand it, this can cause the interior of the
greenhouse to become too humid. This in turn can cause the tomato plants
to
die as they seem to prefer a drier envionment.
We now have a greenhouse with a gravel floor and before anyone says it's
wrong, we have had two very good crops of tomatoes and peppers in the past
two years (about all we grow in the greenhouse - apart from propogation,
which has also worked really well). Although it's more difficult to
clean,
because it doesn't get too humid, it doesn't allow the bugs and such to
take
hold, therefore keeping the deseases down. We hose down regul;arly during
the growing season to hopefully keep red spider mite to a minimum.
Good luck
"Redman" <redman1977@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Ok I was late in getting my new greenhouse up. I purchased 6 tomato
plants
> from B&Q that were a decent size and planted straight into the ground,
no
> growbags. Put plenty of organic compost and about 2Kgs of Rockdust
through
> the soil. Watered the plants well but now I've lost one of them, it just
> seemed to wilt and looked like it had some sort of fungus growing on it
but
> as I'm a bit of a novice I couldn't be 100% sure. Anyway another 2 of
them
> look like they are wilting and the lower leaves are starting to go
> yellow/ish and curl upwards. I've pulled a few of the worst leaves off.
I've
> made a garlic spray and used that to see if it makes a difference. Is
this
> unusual with young tomato plants or is there something wrong with them
from
> my description? Any help much appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Redman
>
>
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