TOMATO GROWBAG GROWHOUSE by GARDMAN
Two great things happened today. First, the weather was fabulous and I managed to relax on the garden swing for a little while at least. At least until the Gardman 'Tomato Growbag Growhouse' arrived via Charles Direct from Amazon. I was impressed that it arrived within 2 days of ordering. I was also pleased that it was very easy to erect with no missing parts to fret about. I need to get a growbag now to place in the bottom and am awaiting the special Growbag Pots which I ordered at the same time as the Growhouse. When I think about it, it seems an awful lot of fuss and expense to grow tomatoes if they turn out to be as pathetic as last year's pathetic efforts but I am hoping that the Growhouse will work magic and that I will have fabulous crops. Although some of the tomatoes available in the shops now, with all the different varieties, there is nothing better than picking your own produce.
I'm keeping an eye out for the overnight temperatures but there is another concern; the Growhouse is not as sturdy as my four-shelve mini-greenhouse. The shelves in the mini-greenhouse make the frame more rigid. In a gale force wind I dare not think what will happen to the tomato Growhouse which has nothing. It's about 5ft tall and wide and, as you can see from the above image, at the moment my tomato pots are just sitting on black plastic binliners. All there is underneath is a couple of wire 'shelves' with a wide gap between them. Even when the growbag is eventually placed under the pots, I cannot believe that the whole thing would be stable in a wind so I have taken the precaution of strapping it to the fence. Actually, it is now strapped across in 3 places. Taking no chances here. If the Growhouse goes, the fence goes with it.
I'm not sure how big the Growbag Pots are but I assume they are bigger, or as big as, the black pots I am using right now. I will have to transplant the tomatoes into them. I think by the time I have finished messing around with the poor things, I will have killed them off.
I'm keeping an eye out for the overnight temperatures but there is another concern; the Growhouse is not as sturdy as my four-shelve mini-greenhouse. The shelves in the mini-greenhouse make the frame more rigid. In a gale force wind I dare not think what will happen to the tomato Growhouse which has nothing. It's about 5ft tall and wide and, as you can see from the above image, at the moment my tomato pots are just sitting on black plastic binliners. All there is underneath is a couple of wire 'shelves' with a wide gap between them. Even when the growbag is eventually placed under the pots, I cannot believe that the whole thing would be stable in a wind so I have taken the precaution of strapping it to the fence. Actually, it is now strapped across in 3 places. Taking no chances here. If the Growhouse goes, the fence goes with it.
I'm not sure how big the Growbag Pots are but I assume they are bigger, or as big as, the black pots I am using right now. I will have to transplant the tomatoes into them. I think by the time I have finished messing around with the poor things, I will have killed them off.