Greenhouse Growing

Murphys Law

Cheers Dave, will give it a (tentative) go in Spring, there was not too much to clean off this autumn so jeyes and hosepipe did it this time round.Steve...

Crops:Dwarf (or even climbing, bit more of a pain though) French beans, Swiss Chard. Too late to sow seed though, so you would need to find plants at the garden centreWinter varieties of Lettuce (I never do well with that) you could sow. I would't buy plants unless you are sure that they are...

"would just a couple of french bean plants be the same"I have had Dwarf French beans that have sat there and done nothing (probably through lack of watering outside though) but when they have grown they crop surprisingly heavily for such a small guy!Half a dozen plants crops like a medium...

"Get the largest greenhouse you can afford/fit in, if you don't you will always wish had a bigger one. There is never enough greenhouse space."Plus, IMHO, it is much easier to keep a larger greenhouse cool in the Summer, than a small one.Cooling a small greenhouse involves throwing...

You have done well with your toms and cucs, you've proved me wrong by getting them to grow so well together in the same greenhouse, you must have green fingers :thumb:

" competition is fierce for 6x6 or 8x6"Yup, that's been my perception of greenhouses on eBay too.FWIW I hold the view that smaller greenhouses are hard to maintain "cooler" temperatures during the Summer months, so where ground space permits I would encourage folk to erect larger greenhouses...

Hi Kev. I had a look online and found these (you'll need to scroll down the page)Cheers...freddy.

Many thanks for your supportive post, and I do apologise if I appeared a bit petty, but I felt the first two replies to my thread were a bit rude and uncalled for, I belong to various forums and hadn't encountered a response like that to an unknown and fairly new poster, but no worries the 'Blue...

greenhousepeople, just google them and u will find them, i bought mine from them, great prices! mine is 10x8 and was under 400, and dont bother about the colour, just makes it more expensive, invest that money into a bigger one instead, and plastic is a no no for me!! 40x10 wow Kristen I want...

Hi busybee, I'm surprised no-one has replied so far, so thought I'd put in my two penn'orth. As you've only a mini greenhouse you'll want something 'cheap and cheerful' so for the pots I'd go for a bog standard cardboard box - depending on how many you've got of course, it could be anything...

The frame is the easy part of the job :wink:

If you did consider designing your own, there are as I'm sure you are aware, a number of companies which supply polycarbonate suitable for greenhouses - builders' merchants (Wickes et.al) but it's not cheap and the price of the glazing bars is a killer. I'm not sure which 'type' of triangle...

My small greenhouse has a slab base.I grow toms etc. in 3gall 99p cheapo builder's buckets and use a JI type mixture for growing in. 7 parts loam, 2 parts home compost from dalek bin, 1 part peat and 1 part sharp sand. All except sand are passed through a 3/8 mesh sieve. Use a rasp to make...

THanks Hex, Downloaded the book and will have a look tonight.

Thanks to all for the helpful replies. I did have some netting Kristen, but it was while that was on that we had the very hot weather and although it 'shaded' the plants, it didn't seem to do anything regards keeping the temperature down. To JWK - I too was looking for something similar,...

Kristen, it can all get a bit confusing I reckon. Somewhere I read that manure has no value as a fertilizer, but rather creates an environment where nutrients within the soil can be released effectively. Or was that Lime ?

I bought one of those telescopic window cleaning thingies (either from Kleeneze or Betterware) - not much use for the bedroom windows but perfect for reaching the greenhouse roof.

this is a mouse my cats caught and brought into the house.(S)he was eating their food whilst they were sleeping - they did get him in the end thoughI've also seen a mouse in the tree, or rather on the bird feeder hanging in the tree, eating the peanuts intended for the birds.My...

I don't take any side shoots off my Cucumbers (but they don't produce many that actually grow). My book says to pinch the laterals out them 2 leaves after a flower, and any that don't flower at 2 feet.