Greenhouse Growing

Why not have it ALL glass or glass substitute?

I bought my Green House from them, mazambo, and visited them on the small industrial site where they are. I found them to be really friendly and helpful and when building the Green House, with a friend of mine, I managed to break the last side pane of safety glass which crumbled into sugar like...

I use cells for virtually everything, either sowing directly into them (especially larger seeds) or pricking out seedlings into them and, rather than using pots or seed tray, I sow seeds for pricking out in individual/strips/blocks of cells from 40x, 24x & 15x trays, then I can snip off...

I unscrew the hexagonal threaded knobs that the pistons push onto, so the roof vents don't open, possibly letting in birds, horizontal rain, etc., in when I'm not checking it every day.

@kazzawazza is correct. The reaper is the hottest. Bhut jolokia (ghost pepper) is next. Ive been groweing both for a number of years.I also grow scotch bonnet, 7 pot yellow, choclate douglah, devil's tongue, red habanero, orange habanero, ring of fire and a couple of other kinds of...

I think it does work fine. The tomatoe shoots have grown very well and fast, along with othe plants I planted late, and are fruiting. Not sure if I will manage to see any ripe tomatoes, given they are outside, but the temperature is going up again and the sun is showing up, so perhaps I will.

Hi Greg CFirst of all, the terracotta pot heating idea I saw here is genius, bloody love it! I got another idea for heating without a mains supply though - a portable propane heater. I'm not sure if one would fit in there, I was having a look here: The Best Shed Heaters of 2018 - A...

Hi Jane, No, don't strip the plants of all their leaves. If you have trusses of toms being covered by some leaves then you can take those off to left the Sun get to them.

Just for a bit of fun, I sowed seeds saved from some very long Tesco Finest yellow peppers and what every plant produced was very small red peppers.

I've got loads of greenhouse glass (awaiting me building the new greenhouse), I bought an old greenhouse on ebay for £50 then got given another for free!

First thing to determine is the rough dimensions. Then determine which are the base pieces. Then work from there. If you are practical and have a good sense of spacial relationships, you’ll work it out. Give yourself plenty of time to make mistakes and you’ll get there. The biggest problem may...

I top mine @joebongo at around that height and remove some leaves especially round the base to open it up a little... I still self polinate with an artists brush and spray mist..Dont forget to remove sucker stems/offshoots...

Just received my Orbit water controller and the Hozelock irrigation kit . The Orbit is robustly made and programming it is really really simple. You just follow the setting dial. The set up photo below shows the Controller , pressure reducer , Hozelock tap connector and irrigation hose Ø13 x...

Thanks for the info sandymac. I'll have to prob pollinate with a brush as not getting bees in even though I've got 2 nests lol

I agree with Noisett47 and JWK looks like scorch. Looks like water droplets sitting on the leaf in the lower picture, this can be caused by overwatering see section Lumps and nodules appear on the foliage in the link supplied by Noisett47 these nodules release water then scorching...

IIRC ricky101, it's whitefly that African Marigolds repel. Marigolds self-sow in my polytunnel each year and there has never been a whitefly problem, so I tend to believe in that tip

Hi,Doubt you will be able to enjoy any of the 'fruits' of your labours, sure the kids will have gobbled them all up before you get home .

@sandymac i'd say any plant would grow ok as long as it as so much of sun then shade

Thanks all. I was only growing in greenhouse in case they don't grow well outside in the North East as its not as hot at the South.

Just admit it mate you have memory blokes