Grow tomatoes under glass? Yes please!
Growing up, whenever we went round the grandparents, granddad would be upstairs doing DIY and nan would be outside in the garden looking after all her plants and fruit and veg. The house was a non-stop, 30-year fix-up job that my granddad was obsessed with. Whenever we walked into an upstairs room it was like a bomb had hit it, yet there he was smiling away as he perused a catalogue for cheap built in wardrobes or looked for some advice on how to hang curtains yourself.
As good as granddad was with messing up wardrobes – and he was exceptional – he was never any good at growing tomatoes under glass. Nan, on the other hand, was amazing, and she would often use granddad’s ruined DIY attempts in her gardening, as I will demonstrate now…
Don’t panic if your home-grown tomatoes don’t look like the ones in the shops…
1) She’d grow them in border soil. She’d make trays to hold the soil using the leftover ruined wardrobe pieces and reinforce all the edges by using wood nailed together. Worked a treat!
2) She’d always, always, always make sure that in the winter the soil was properly prepared. She would also clean the greenhouse and make sure that light could get through the glass properly to – very important!
3) Wet soil is a good thing. Use compost and keep it damp. Fertilizer? Also a fine idea, my friend.
4) Watch out for pests that get in the soil. Insects love damp soil! You may need to sterilise the soil. Failing that, don’t panic, because there are loads of how-tos out there on how to grow tomatoes and such in pots and grow-bags. Just check the video!
5) Last tip: Don’t panic if your home-grown tomatoes don’t look like the ones in the shops. This is perfectly normal and to be expected, really. Me? I have never minded the strange shapes they can take. In fact, I happen to quite like it. Gives them that unique edge, me thinks!
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