Love watching your channel. 👏👏👏

Nice to hear Steve's music again, good work again get toms in.

hinged screendoor with a hook latch or slide bolt

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I couldn't really do hinged because of all the stuff either side of the doorways inside which is a bit of a shame

For your strings for tomatoes look up hop twine, really strong natural fibres and you can get a couple of Years out of them

Just a heads up should have done a full door screen if your leaving them open all night , mainly I found moths will get in also rats can climb up the chicken wire .

Danny from Growup (KZread) has netting under his polytunnel door window panels which he can just pop off and put them back as needed. It was something similar!

The best knot for using with a tomato trellis. Taut line hitch. Quick to learn on KZread and versatile in the garden. I've used it for all sorts when I need some tension.

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! This sent me down a knot rabbit hole, always been meaning to learn a few

@neeway1620

2 ай бұрын

@@JBNat Love it. I often go back to them and practice when relaxing watching youtube or something. I also used the taught line hitch to make a small washing line to peg my gloves up to dry on the side of my shed :D.

Hi JB, really enjoy your videos. I've just got a First Tunnels polytunnel and made some inner mesh doors with hinges. For yours, as you said, perhaps use turn catches. 😊

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I think over winter I will try something hinged and better actually. Maybe with a mesh to keep everything out! At the moment there's too much stuff in the way of a hinged door!

For the doors, try small cup hooks & vine eyes...then you can just lift on & off.

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I thought of this too! But on one door I don't have any frame space and it would make it quite tricky to lift from the outside!

A curtain at the top of the doors will stop birds from getting into the poly tunnel.

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I did wonder about something like this. I think/hope the tunnel skin is quite visible to them. My Robin is definitely smart enough to recognise the doorway and comes and goes as he pleases without confusion!

Oh JB I so know the one… also had a list and crawled home feeling absolutely shattered! Tomorrow’s another day 😅🎉🎉🎉

Jb I know this is a bit off topic but its about polytunnel rain water collectionn, i use plastic edging sections for tiles? Can get it with self adesive backing on but i also stick over the bit that is meant to stick tiles too with polytunnel repair tape to hold it down? On the plus you can put one on each corner of tunnel ( which i need to do yet) but it does work even though looks like it wont catch much. Sorry to drone on. Trev

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Sounds interesting!

Haha 😄 your comment at the end about how long ago it felt since you did the jobs you started with! Time really expands when gardening it's like magic. Being outdoors in the dry is magic. I hope your Bank Holiday Monday was drier than ours. we were in and out and in again like a pair of yoyos! My sweet potato plugs still look a bit too puny to put in their big boy pots.

Congratulations for getting so much done, give yourself some credit, we are all behind. Jo Devon 🙂

Great work on the poly. I had the same ventilation issues with mine. My solution was to plastic net the main doors the use smaller frames with sit inside the panels on the doors and cover them with the plastic. I was able to control the amount of ventilation I require. During a storm to during the winter I just kept all the internal frames in the doors. A simple wooden latches held every thing in place.

Hi JB, I really enjoy your videos. I recommend chopped straw as a mulch generally but especially for potatoes. It keeps them moist and protected from the sun. Best, Nancy

Hi JB, if that doesnt work then i just used 2 lines of metal wire from the cross bars and then tied the diaganol string to that. Not too tight so you can push the front strings to the side giving more access to the plants behind. It works well for me.

Will be nice to see how the spacing for the tomatoes work out. Feels like it might be a bit tight? 🤔🤞That mister looked nice. Maybe I should get something similar to spray the plants a bit while they're flowering 🤔Could you not make like a pair of actual doors that only have the chicken wire that you only use when needed? Or are the doors hard to remove/replace? Those potato buckets look quite heavy! 😉Awesome video and well done with the todo list! 💪

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha yes definitely quite tight. I might regret it. I should definitely grow fewer plants next year (I've never said this before)

@PreatorRaszagal

2 ай бұрын

@@JBNat Haha, nope! Never said that myself either, so no clue what you are talking about 😉

You got loads done JB, all I did all weekend was about 3sqM of inch thick woody nettle roots, with a pick axe, couldn't move today lol

I've always used canes in the Quadgrows previously however this year I'm going string...well Paracord as recommended last year by a certain Tony C Smith if I recall correctly...So far so good. Pity you can't have Summer doors you could swop out with the standard ones to sort out the ventilation on your tunnel you'll have to pardon my ignorance here as I've never had a polytunnel much as I'd like one. On another note I haven't grown brassicas before for want of protection and I've never seen a brassica hoop cage as tall as yours...brilliant idea. Might be too late for me this year but next year... You pack more into an episode than Gardener's World and it's far more entertaining 😁

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Summer doors to swap out is actually a really sensible suggestion. Would just need to buy some more timber and some of the little runners which screw into the top of the door. Might have that as a winter job!

JB great job today yea we always have something to do in the garden and I hope that those mice don’t climb over the wire door because they could and they could get through 1/2 inch one also good luck in the garden JB 👍

Make the door like a screen door

Well done, you so deserve success.

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Brenda!

How about a pair of gate latches for the polytunnel screen doors?

That compost looks great!

jb your so ingenious love the bed frame

Well done. 🎉

I don't have a greenhouse so haven't had to deal with low humidity issue but I have wondered whether it would be worth putting a largish container or bucket filled with water and put towels or clothes over the side so they wick water into the towels. Then the water evaporates with the heat and helps keep the air more humid. Maybe just a wet towel on the floor would work but I think the towel would dry out too fast.

compost looks good

Would have been good to have stable type doors on either end of the poly tunnel - could leave the tops open when necessary 🌿 Very productive day there 🌿 I always do the jobs I least want to do first - the rest don't seem as bad then - plant some beers underground for when you need a well deserved pint sat on your chair in the tunnel 🍺😜

🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻 nice jobs

Hi JB, I understand about the heat in the polytunnel. I would like to leave mone open too but, the foxes like my plot too, they have already managed to get my solar fountain out of mu pond twice and chewed the top off, little buggers! I'm hoping it's still there when I go tomorrow. Nice framework, will be thinking if doing something similar, will be looking for wood in my hubby's shed tomorrow 😉 cannot believe it's been a year since Steve's passing 😢 I bet you will get a good crop of potatoes from your homemade compost. Great video, you need to do more exercise to get the stamina to sort your compost bays out 😂 thanks for sharing and take care 😊

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I get plenty of exercise at the plot thank you Christine!!! Hahahah I was emptying that compost for like two hours though 🥵 and that was after about 6 hours on the plot! Fingers crossed the potatoes come out good 😊 I think I'm going to make full screen doors for the interior of the tunnel and hinge them onto the door frame.

JB mice and rats will climb up the chicken wire. Cup hooks and eye rings on frame might be an idea, just a thought.❤

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Yes I did wonder about trying to properly rodent proof it but it seems like such a mission. Just needed a quick fox defence for this year.

You could have put your filled pots in a wheelbarrow and used it to take them to the side of the poly - less carrying

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

My wheelbarrow is far too dodgy to risk that 😅 I have a new one on the shopping list

@petewestlake8564

2 ай бұрын

@@JBNat trust you get your barrow soon,as a man with damaged.vertebra I can only say what a godsend mine is

I need three square feet for each of our fave cherry tomatoes. And at least 2ft apart for a half decent crop of paste tomatoes. Beefsteak? Doesn’t matter. We chop everything away to five healthy leaf branches above the first truss, otherwise our kitchen ends up nursing green tomatoes until someone volunteers to make a chutney! 😊 I love watching KZreadrs taste testing their tomatoes, though. It’s fun and really enlightening. But our family prefer marinara sauce and tomato juice throughout winter. 😬

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I'm so excited for this year's tomato tasting!!

Ok… I hope it works for you … but I live in south florida… and its humid as heck…. I still get spider mites.

Hi jb could the foxes 🦊 jump over into the poly tunnel ? Just saying sorry! you are working very hard well done 👏👏👏👏 enjoying your videos lv Irene 😘 xx

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

If they were really determined they definitely could but I'm hoping it will be enough to deter them 🤞

I thought it was just me that had stupidly tall purple sprouting broccoli, is there a shorter type ? Take care. X

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

I think you can get summer sprouting crops! They flower much earlier so you don't get such big plants and you get a reduced crop

Don't worry. Your sunflowers are twice the size of mine. And your cosmos 5 times the size.

Build a second sliding door on the opposite side?

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Not quite enough room for a sliding door unfortunately! They require a large runner (you can see the big silver one on my outside) which would hit the top of the plastic

invest in a garden wagon lol save your knees and back

I have conifer hedges which I inherited can I compost or hot compost clipping or are the too acid?

@ninemoonplanet

2 ай бұрын

Dried conifers needles lose the acidity and definitely make decent compost. The green needles aren't going to make compost too acidic, if used with the right amount of carbon material.

What size are your black potatoe pots?

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

30L from Oakland Garden :) designed with handles which are able to take the weight

@Plot10b

2 ай бұрын

@@JBNat i think i may have the same ones

Sorry but a fox could and probably will climb over those wire doors I've seen them climb a deer fence approximately 6ft high

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

They could climb the defensive netting all the way around it too, but often something like this is enough to put them off if they're just curious. 🤞

Growing sweet potatoes under your tomatoes may not be a good idea. They will compete for valuable nutrients and produce huge vines that may create viruses affecting the tomato plants. Perhaps growing tomatoes on one side of the tunnel and sweet potatoes on the other would work better. Would hate to see you lose all the work you've done growing and setting up your tomatoes.

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Yes I think you might well be right! I might try one sweet potato plant in there but now the tomatoes are so dense it feels very risky! Might try some outside too and hope for a warm summer

Please don’t wear a vest again

@JBNat

2 ай бұрын

Nobody is going to stop me hahaha 🛑 no other way I can work in the polytunnel when the sun is out!

@justanotherfaceinthecrowd

2 ай бұрын

😂 ye it’s crazy how warm it is when you’re trying to work in there isn’t it

Nice to hear Steve's music again, good work again get toms in.

Hi JB, if that doesnt work then i just used 2 lines of metal wire from the cross bars and then tied the diaganol string to that. Not too tight so you can push the front strings to the side giving more access to the plants behind. It works well for me.