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Porch Plants still good. Started a few seeds, only couple inches tall and not growing much.
 
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Looks like plant-out might still be a few weeks away, DF. 🤔

Good luck in the new season. Hope it's a good one!
 
A polly tunnel sounds awesome! Seems like a return to some of the better summers before the last few years wouldn't hurt either.
 
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Well, you have an idea, why dont't make it real and be safe. Tunnels make it better anyway, protecting from... well, everything you had live through there. It's awful you had it that bad ;/

At my family's house I remember there always was a polly tunnel and it was so hot inside you couldn't breath if not opened for few hours. SO MANY TOMATOES! Paradise I will always have burnt in my brain. Father did grow some of Dorset Nagas inside this year, I heard, and they were amazing.

Buy a polly tunnel! Dont't let go of your pepper paradise dream 🙉
 
lol Thanks!
Yup enthusiasm is very low as many have guessed.
I checked out my five year old Horseradish that had leaves 4 ' long, was expecting big roots, Fk, barely any strands and no Radish taste, slight after taste , Thats it.
Something is very wrong. Neighbours and others the same thing.
 
Well, your hardiness zone looks awful, polytunnel may help there but I don't know if it will be enough for those temperatures - greenhause would do better probably but it's much bigger investment. You could install some kind of heater or wood burning stove to get the temperature up... There is few ways to get temperature up inside the foil tho. Aphids would love the place probably, and other plant lovers, so you'd have o deal with that, going hard on them all with that stinky neem oil every two weeks for all season. ;/

As for bad harvests it may be lack of nutrients in the ground. I don't know what do you use for that, if you replenish them from time to time etc. Also - from my own experience but without proper knowledge I can say that tomatoes ripening in lower temperatures at the end of the season are mild af and doesn't even taste like tomatoes - it may be due to something completely different than temperature but I kinda always believed that's the case (slower developing, less life in the plant, it doesn't eat as much as it could but still wants to give seeds etc etc my crazy brain trying to get into it's green mind).
 
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Thanks!
Yup Aphids always been a battle.
I always add kitchen waste to the garden, lots of coffee grounds, so no shortage of nutrients.
Just as an experiment, I used mirical grow on one are, made no difference whatsoever.
Greenhouses are expensive been contemplating that for years, so finally figure $260 for 10x20x7 Polly tunnel cheapest way to go..
 
Ring of Fire peppers still good, slow in producing but still are on the Porch.
Growing Red Onions in boxes.
Hungarian Wax Hot Peppers real slow in growing.

Also got some Pumpkins starting up. Was given these, suposed to have bumpy skin other then that I dont know what kind they are.

Temps supposed to go to -30c at night this weekend.

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Noo, hops at the back, they were massive last year lol (Lemon Balm)
Still not enough hot peppers, they just dont want to take off.

(-16c outside right now)
 
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You sow your squash early😲
 
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I think we getting very short growing season this year.
Got a 10x20 poly tunnel on its way. Will put it up when the Snow goes.
Next Sunday supposed to be +12c
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A little difference of 40°C in less than a week?!. Mother Nature is really fucked-up...🤯
 
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