Hi guys,
Yep, been to Andrefleurs a couple of times last year. I should have left my credit card at home
About the early start on the window sill, I've tried this several times, just to see the plants shoot, fall over and die. It's just too warm, you have to water them a lot...
This will be my second year growing stuff on our roof terrace (we built a 6.8 x 0.35 x 0.25 m large trough) and that's what I learned from last years experience.
I had bought a lot of propagators and started tomatoes, chillies, peppers, kohlrabi, pointed cabbages and lots more at the end of March. I will never do this again!!!! Either there was too much condensation on the lid, you take them off... then it rained like crazy for weeks on end and everything was completely flooded...you wanna hear more
If you have a green house, excellent, but to be honest, as soon as it gets warm here, everything will catch up easily. Had direct comparison with most of my veg (stuff from the propagator that finally germinated in a completely different pot as initially seeded) and the seeds I put directly into the soil.
Most successful were aubergines, kohlrabi, strawberries (3 crops), cabbages (what the caterpillars had left me with at least) and a surprisingly late crop of chillies and toms.
No success at all with peas, beans and the courgettes cought a mold and dropped their flowers (has anyone got an idea why?, we tried bicarb).
We are building a second trough for this year, if anyone got a good idea what else to grow
blooming_nicki