Can I Put my Plants in the Greenhouse Yet?

When can you leave your tender plants in a greenhouse?
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[@douglasbarr2783]

Insulation with horticultural fleece until mid May either over the plants or fixed with clips an inch under the glass will greatly assist their growth .👍

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi JB, I would take them home if I were you, just be on the safe side. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@wordsbymaribeja1470]

My chillis have been in my mini greenhouse for the last 3 weeks. I' ve been hardening off my tomatoes for the last fortnight and most have been outside undercover for the last 4 days and I have 2 tomatos that are in pots out in the elements. They aren't thriving, but they're not dying either. I have some insulation that I'll put around the inside of the clotch , and the rest I'll wrap around the pots of the tomatoes that are out in the garden. All the tomatoes were leggy and weak and I just don't have the room for them indoors, they became leggy as they grew bigger but they began and very nice compact and strong plants.

[@lifestapestry2968]

Personally I've found with Chilli plants is that so long as you're past the frosty nights, you are pretty well good to grow but will benefit in a greenhouse as long as posssible to promote strong growth before planting them outside. Just make sure they get around 6 hours in the UK sun and mostly you'll be fine

[@anonet78]

JB Keep them at home for another 2 or 3 weeks, Better safe than sorry and it wont hurt, Last year i did what you want to do then we had a frost and it killed most of them.

[@PreatorRaszagal]

I'd love to see a chilli video. They look happy! Just looked at the 10 day forecast here and currently it has the nightly temperatures for next week around 1-2° C 😥If this continues my plant will start producing flowers soon enough 🤪

[@irenesmith5676]

Hi JB love your video full of information thank you lv Irene 😘 xx

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

I love the conversation of hardening off. There is always someone that knows more than everyone else and say no way not necessary. I say go right ahead put them all out tough guy and don't come crying to me when they all get burned and die. I took the basil from the grocery split it into 3 pots and planted one out side kept two back to harden them off. By the 3rd day the outdoor one was cooked and dead right in the soil. Smart Idea keeping the other two safe!! I try to put them out in the non direct sunlight and gradually increase the time of exposure and the intensity as it will be in the 100% exposure soon enough. I always have 8-10 of the 1020 trays to bring in and out everyday. I have two sliding doors to the back yard one on the upper deck from kitchen and one from lower level shop, photo studio, planting and painting area. Best rule of thumb is to always have one or two extra plants for when one of them dies for whatever reason. The one thing that I love about myself is I do not always have to be right and I do not care who is right all the time. Be right God bless you be wrong God bless you it all works out the same to me. I only have to be right in the end. If it takes the whole journey to get to being right then it was a successful journey. Has anyone ever started learning to read already knowing how to read? Why? What was the bloody point? Too many folks are wired too tight and need to loosen up. Peace and blessings bye for now

[@JBNat]

Keeping back ups is always very sensible advice isn't it!

[@simplifygardening]

ive been waiting to bring mine up

[@Crumbleofborg]

Here in Manchester we have lows of 2c coming next week. And I have so much stuff on the windowsills desperate to go out! But if the forecast stays the same, they can go into the greenhouse next Thursday. Fingers crossed!

[@rachelcatchpole]

My 🌶 only make it out during the day. My 🍅 have been out at night under fleece but I did chicken out in the bad wind and brought them in

[@jennyp1008]

Not yet for my tomatoes, cucumber or peppers. I have lettuce, beans (in trays), radish, spring onions and charlotte potatoes in the polytunnel though. Maybe in a couple of weeks JB.

[@JBNat]

Very wise Jenny!

[@saltytree729]

They’ll be absolutely fine. If given the correct nutrients and have a high enough brix rating each point of brix is half a degree centigrade. Put my cuttings in the tunnel in February and they died back lost all their leaves at minus 5 night temperatures. Just last week new growth is starting, footage on instagram 👍 too many people don’t realise just how well plants climates, it’s literally hours. Most importantly if roots don’t freeze the plant will be fine.

[@magpie1492]

A learning experience 😅. Yeah, I am keeping mine at home for at least another week!

[@PamsMountainGarden]

I use a product called gnatrol to control fungus gnats. It contains bacillus thuringiensis. I just go ahead and use it once a week once I notice them. I have only had a problem with them in my seedlings recently and I have been gardening looong time. You may have something similar in the UK and it might improve the situation next year. As to taking your chilies to the plot a bit early, who doesn’t need a day out from time to time? My husband laughs at me when I will not put my frost covers away but I find that it bring on a freeze to do so. Every time.

[@mandytaylor1008]

Ahhhh jb it’s so hard it’s the in between stage. It gets crowded indoors and you need space for beans and squash so it’s very tempting. If we had heated greenhouses it would be different. We tried paraffin heater one year and didn’t like it all round. So it’s patience I need. My plot neighbour has planted runner bean plants in the ground😩they did the same last year and the frost got them. We due frosts again in few days. I have only just sowed my beans yesterday. We have frosts for another month here so they have time to grow as they are fast growing plants. Anyway it’s good you have realised b4 it’s too late. It’s trial and error for us all and I gues for some years of experience tells us. Happy gardening 👍🙋🏻

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Lol this really sums up my thoughts right now lol

[@UpthePottingShed]

Really good video! I put mine out early because they become vulnerable to a cat attack indoors as they get bigger and I don't use lights. I do so with the knowledge they will get knocked and suffer. I also have an oil heater for if it gets too cold. I'll put it on if there's a danger of 5c. Knowledge is power, it's about understanding the risks and consequences. My greenhouse is usually a couple of degrees above outside but the forecast generally 2 degrees out for my location. Experience is the key but when you're new it pays to be a bit more cautious until you know your growing environment better.

[@linaso9739]

Hardening the peppers is definitely helpful. I brought them outside from growtent for two hours and they got burned by the sun.

[@DJAshley96]

I absolutely love you & your outlook on things! You’ve always got a smile on your face even when things don’t go to plan. I love it! I’ve literally just been to view my first allotment today as I currently grow from pots & containers. Your videos have inspired & helped me as a beginner allotment holder. Thank you 🙏 (hence why I subscribed to your patron) Keep doing what you are doing and keep smiling buddy! ❤️

[@JBNat]

Yes Ashley!!! Get in! How did the allotment look when you first got there? Horror show or actually quite nice? So wonderful (and slightly surreal) when people say I actually inspire them! Thanks so much

[@DJAshley96]

@@JBNat the allotment just needs a light strimming over. Not too much of a but job :)

[@stephenblaze4571]

That's a great learning curve everybody has to go through and the best way to learn Nice video well explained JB

[@NickSBailey]

our forecast says 0C for Monday night, so the tomatoes will all have to come back in the house lol at least they're not as tender as Peppers

[@stephenbrammall2565]

You need a mini Steve in your back garden JB, 😗😂🤣.. then you'd have 3 greenhouses, Oh Yeah...

[@Pixieworksstudio]

Hi JB, it would be lovely to see more of your chilli plants. They are pretty fascinating. Have you ever tried, or thought of trying, to take and root a cutting from a pepper plant, or a chilli? Do you think it can be done?

[@JBNat]

It's definitely possible to take chilli cuttings! They can be a bit fiddly though and take a really long time to get growing. They're not like tomatoes which can give you cuttings at the start of the season which will become full plants & abundant harvests by the end of it.

[@Pixieworksstudio]

@@JBNat Oh really. That's so interesting. If only we could get them through the winter in the UK a bit better than hit or miss lol, I wonder how strong they are?

[@tanyareilly8807]

Yes please to dedicated 🌶 videos!

[@amandar7719]

Weather forecasts have become reliably unreliable! 😩. We are central UK and apart from some extra aubergines, we’re keeping all chillies and tomatoes outside during the day and in at night these next 10 days of cold weather… but most grow lights are gone for the season. I use large moulded plastic underbed storage bins for easy carriage (and wind protection) so doesn’t take long. This time last year tomatoes were planted out in ground undercover and we were potting up their side shoots ready to grow on outdoors! Chillies and peppers were outside growing on in final pots and brought in at night if rainy or under 10 degrees. Everything is soooo much later this year. I feel for you. Our Iphone/MSM forecasts have definitely given us false hope. Although longer term “potential” MET and Euro world forecasts have suggested possibility of arctic blasts.

[@dannygough7518]

Hey JB! I’m sure you’ve answered this somewhere else but, is your allotment run by the council or an allotment association? Love your videos, you’ve inspired me to apply for my own!

[@JBNat]

Ours is a council plot :)

[@Lepotagerdesgourmands]

Top merci

[@glassbackdiy3949]

wxcharts has a 0.5C frost for us mon night/tue in the E.mids egads!

[@JBNat]

Keep them safe!!!

[@durbatov]

Iv got around 25 sweet peppers in the ground in my 2 greenhouses I'm not digging them up fingers crossed 4em 😂😂

[@JBNat]

Oooooh good luck! A bit of fleece or bubble wrap will really help keep them going. Even if they stall a bit early in the season they can catch up in summer too.

[@durbatov]

@Naturally JB well we have had a cpl 5degs since they went out they seem to grow daily 3or4 forecast sat morning I may put fleece over them fri night they had outgrown my windowsill they had to go out

[@jackyausten4737]

Helpful advice, where in the uk are you, I’m Kent

[@JBNat]

I'm near Portsmouth :)

[@TheJenmiester]

I desperately need your chilli update

[@JBNat]

I'll make one soon! Thank you!

[@quietspacearts]

snow in scottish isles in couple days, my peppers are foot n half and flowering indoors windowsill do i need to do anything to get peppers?

[@ebenezercottagegarden]

Hi, you may have mentioned this in previous videos but what kind of grow light do you use?

[@JBNat]

I have a viparspectra P100 as my main one! kit.co/NaturallyJB/seed-starting-essentials

[@cleverlittletramp]

Have/do you top your chili plants?

[@JBNat]

I don't top mine! You can do it if you want a bushier plant, but I find they naturally bush and they're so slow-growing that I don't want to lose ANYTHING if I can help it!

[@cleverlittletramp]

@@JBNat cheers. I normally top mine if theyre becoming leggy but, like you say, i dont want to lose any part of the plant so early. Ill be keeping an eye on yours almost as much as mine👍

[@BeyondBeetroot]

Of course you can

[@TuftyMcTavish]

🌶️ I try to get my guys outside ASAP so they’re under the grow lights for the least amount of time. It takes me 20mins to walk my plants outside every day, and another 20mins bringing them in at the end of the day. So it gets to be a right faff eventually - this is the point where I start considering leaving things out all night. The neighbours must be thinking, “oh, here he goes again, just what is that eejit doing carting those plants out and in every day?!” But I keep an eye on my SensorPush data and bring things in only as temperatures dip below a threshold. Sometimes I have to hold my nerve - “Hoooollllddd! HOOLLLLLLDDDD!!!” - because of a passing cloud or rain burst covering the sun, which will be back soon, so it’s useful to have access to live data via my portable telecommunications device. I know where the cold spots are in my garden, how long things take to warm up, etc. so I’m quite well informed. Like you. I have grades of tenderness, so Melons are indoors first, Tomatoes last. I also have problems with fungus gnats, but I don’t have somebody telling me to get them OUT! 😆😉

[@JBNat]

Yeah the chilli pepper hokey cokey! In out, in out, shake them all about! Gets old quite quickly doesn't it...