Growing
How to Grow Cucumbers in a Greenhouse: The UK Season, Start to Finish
An April sowing, one string and a steady watering can. The full UK method for greenhouse cucumbers, from all-female F1 varieties to the last fruit in October.
Spint in de kas bestrijden: herkennen, voorkomen en biologisch aanpakken
Bijgewerkt juli 2026 · leestijd ~8 min · door Waldenhaus Kort antwoord: spint gedijt in een warme, droge kas — precies de omstandigheden bij de deur en de ramen op...
What to Grow in a Greenhouse in Spring: A UK Sowing Calendar
The question of what to grow in a greenhouse in spring has a misleading answer on most of the web: a tidy list of crops pinned to month names. The...
Ripening End-of-Season Tomatoes: Get Six More Weeks
By late August the calendar makes the call for you. The trusses near the top are still small and green, the light is dropping by a few minutes each evening,...
Winter Salads: Sow in August, Pick Until March
If you want salad leaves on the plate in January, the work happens in August. Sow your hardy leaves in August and September, while there is still light and warmth...
Powdery Mildew on Greenhouse Cucumbers: Stop the Spread
White powder on cucumber and courgette leaves looks like someone dusted them with flour, and the first instinct is usually to blame damp. That instinct gets powdery mildew on cucumbers...
Whitefly Under Glass: How to Actually Clear It
Reach for the spray can and you will lose this fight. Greenhouse whitefly survive contact insecticides because two of their life stages, the egg and the non-feeding pupa, shrug them...
Red Spider Mite in the Greenhouse: Spot It and Stop It
Most greenhouse trouble in a heatwave gets blamed on the watering can, so the fix feels obvious: hold off, dry things out, let the air move. Red spider mite turns...
What's Wrong With My Tomato Plant? A Photo Diagnostic
When a tomato plant tells you something is wrong, it almost always names the cause itself. Curled leaves, a black sunken base, a split skin, hard green shoulders: each marking...
Why Greenhouse Fruit Isn't Setting (Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers)
You can grow tomatoes against the south glass, cucumbers up a string and peppers in a pot beside the door, and watch all three flower like mad in July, and...
Why Cucumber Leaves Turn Yellow (and How to Fix It)
Look at where the yellow sits before you reach for the feed. Cucumber leaves turning yellow on the oldest growth near the base means one thing; yellow on the brand-new...
Watering a Greenhouse While You're Away (UK Guide)
The gadget you buy matters far less than two boring things: how much water sits in the reservoir, and whether every pot keeps even contact with it. A £79 timer...