New Plastic Greenhouse but I'm lost..........

I know that this is probably in the completely place and I'm sorry but I didn't know where else to put it
Please feel free to move it to the relevant section, I won't mind!!

Well here is my problem-
I am a complete novice to gardening but have huge ambitions :o

I have just bought one of those walk-in type greenhouses and want to know where to go from here.

Is it just a matter of buying some seed trays, compost and off I go?

I'm sorry to sound so stupid but I'm a bit lost.
My kids think I'm mad!!

What can I plant?
What equipment do I need?

Can anyone please help me or guide me in the right direction please?

Thanking you so much

Nightingale

 

Hi

You are partly right. Compost, seed trays, pots, seeds and off you go. First question is what do you want to grow? Veggies? Flowers? Fruit? Then go on to the many web sites and buy seeds, plugs ect. Then follow instructions on the packets. Try not to run before you can walk. Try some tomatoes and cucumber for starters, and things like pansy and viola which I found easy to grow. Arm yourself with some books like Alan Titmarsh complete gardener and Carol Kline how to propergate (I think its called) Also the gardeners World Mag is good for advise. Have a look around the neighbours see what they are growing. Make friends with a keen gardener he/she will be happy to give advise and plants they don't want. Don't make it hard work but do it a your pace and enjoy. I am on my 3 year of gardening and I am loving it. Good luck and let us know how you get on

 

tomatoes. . . . . an always popular begining. just use grow bags, water and tomato food. voila !!

 

Thanks to both of you.

Really appreciate your replies

 

If you're growing tomatoes, you'll also need some canes and some garden twine (to tie the plants to and with!). You could also put a pepper plant in there. Growbags are good, (don't put more than 2 tomato plants per bag) you can also plant stuff in old buckets etc.

If you haven't already got it, you'll probably need some 'staging' at some point - you don't have to buy the expensive sort, anything which gives you a comfortable working height, an old table will work just as well or something like Wilko's 4 tier greenhouse staging at around £12 (useful for keeping all those bits and pieces you're inevitably going to acquire).

Why not grow some herbs in pots? Perhaps get a couple of seed tray inserts and grow something to go with your tomatoes? Lettuce seed for example, the cut-and-come-again sort are good - not only do you get edible crops, but a variety of 'pretty to look at' leaves as well! Some of the supermarkets are selling flower 'plug plants' at the minute - one tray, transplanted into 3" pots with some multi-purpose compost and in a month or so, when the weather is more settled, you'll be able to put them in the garden.

One thing is for sure, no matter how big your greenhouse, in a couple of years' time you'll be wanting one twice, three or four times the size .... it happens to us all!