Growing Strawberries in a cloche

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Growing Vegetables in a Cloche | 0 comments Strawberries grow very well in a cloche, a Victorian Bell Cloche is best suited to covering individual plants. Cover the plant in early spring just before the buds start to show. Do not forget to water and keep the fruit off the ground, but using this method you will get ripe strawberries 4 weeks or more earlier than those not covered. Try covering some plants and not  others to extend your...
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Growing French Beans in a cloche

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Growing Vegetables in a Cloche | 0 comments French beans require protection until the risk of frost has gone, a cloche is the ideal solution for this. Make sure that you warm the soil for a couple of weeks before sowing, and depending on the type of cloche you use you may need to raise it up as the plants grow. Using this method you can easily plant the seeds 4 weeks earlier than you would outside as the cloche will provide that critical...
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Growing Cauliflower in a cloche

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Growing Vegetables in a Cloche | 0 comments Cauliflower can be over wintered in a cloche, this gives you a great advantage as Cauliflowers do not like to be disturbed once they are growing so planting them directly into the location they will grow and covering them in a cloche is ideal. They can be planted in November and December for harvesting in the spring or early summer the next year. Using this method the cauliflower grows very slow...
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Growing Carrots in a cloche

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Growing Vegetables in a Cloche | 0 comments Growing Carrots in a cloche can mean that you can have fresh carrots on the table for as much as 9 months of the year. Autumn and winter Carrots can be sown in September and they will be ready to be harvested in November and December. If you want early carrots you can force them under a cloche by warming the soil in early February and then planting your seeds at the end of February, this will...
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Growing Broad Beans in a cloche

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Growing Vegetables in a Cloche | 0 comments Broad beans can be planted in a cloche in the Autumn months, and over wintered under the cloche, this will give you a fresh crop of broad beans in the Early Spring. If you want to use this method you should still choose hardy varieties even though they are under cover, plant them 50mm deep and 200 mm...
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Growing Beetroot in a cloche

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Growing Vegetables in a Cloche | 0 comments Beetroot can usually be sown in Mid-April, however, using a cloche, that has already warmed the soil, beetroot can be planted 3 or 4 weeks earlier at the beginning of March. Take care that any snow fall does not damage your cloche if you grow this early in the season. Make sure that you always soak beetroot seeds in water fir a couple of hours before you sow them, this removes the chemicals that...
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