Roofless greenhouse

Being short on greenhouse space I made a container for my spare veg from a length of rigid plastic fencing enclosing two growbags, and clipping on clear plastic bags with clothes pegs, I've grown several lettuce two peppers and a tomato plant, they were well protected from the wind, but had plenty of air. I could also protect them with slug pellets safely, They were on the gravel bed.

 

Good idea Wee Tattie, did you bget it from Blue Peter. LOL and t.i.c.

 

I do believe you're talking to y'self, wee tattie :hehe: I've seen that trick used before to deter slugs by leaving a ring of spiky chicken wire round the top, the slugs don't like to climb over.

 

Oh well, we all have to start somewhere and learn along the way, I do get the impression that this is a bit of a clannish site, but I don't give up easily, one day I just might astound someone with a real nugget of an idea., and you will all be falling over me to find out how I did it. , till then I'll just keep on weeding. ;-))

 

I think it is a good idea, I just didn't "pipe up" when you posted it.

For some time I have been using clear plastic tubing, about 2' in diameter (comes on a long roll) and I cut into lengths and secure with 3 or 4 canes. I put these around newly planted shrubs to keep the wind off them in their first Summer. Not exactly free :( but something I would recommend to help get a border established. Makes the place look like a rubbish tip for the firs year, but personally I'm more interested in getting the plants established

 

"I'm having problems spotting new posts for some reason the forum doesn't always work for me when I press on the "new posts" button."

I have that issue too. I haven't fully figured why - and I had a spate of "missed posts" at the weekend.

However, one thing I have found that helps mitigate is:

Immediately view the New Posts page. Navigate page-by-page to the last page.

If you came to the site for something else (to check a thread, or search etc.) then do that.

Revert to the New Posts page and review posts of interest. I right-click and open-in-new-tab - so that the index page remains. (I open all the threads of interest into separate tabs, and then when I start reading them they are fully loaded already :thumb

Then I press BACK to get to earlier News Posts pages (if any)

That will have taken me several minutes, depending on number of posts, and new posts may have been added in that time, of course.

So before I leave the site I press New Posts again (I check the time of the most recent thread before I refresh it, and then look for posts newer than that).

Then I am sure that I have seen anything "new"

If I get distracted, come back after a while, and "do something" I think the forum takes that as my last-visit time, and anything earlier is no longer new.

If that happens the first thing I do is click New posts (again, "open in new tab") so that there is a preserved list of what the site thinks is new since my last activity.

I'm sure all bar the Geeks reading this think that is a right palaver - and you are RIGHT!!

I think the way vBulletin handles this is flawed, but it is how it is! By comparison the SMF forum software remembers read / unread threads individually per user, so will never consider a thread "read" until you have actually viewed it, which strikes me as a better solution. vBulletin is IME far superior is most other regards though

 

I seem to have cured that problem by rebooting. I tend not to reboot my computer for weeks ... and I expect some cookie-limit, link-visit-history-limit, or somesuch is being reached. It certainly reoccurs and, AFAICR, goes away each time I reboot.

 

If I get into a bit of a muddle I use the Quick links : Today's posts - but I'm pretty sure that didn't catch the ones at the weekend that fell through the cracks.

 

back to Wee Taatie's idea. I would be concerned about the lack of air circulation and the humidity build up

 

Can't say I've had a problem. Probably an imperfect seal at the bottom, in my case, so some air getting in, but the key thing for me was keeping the wind off which reduced the drying-out and stress on the plants.

 

"Some plants may enjoy having a bit more humidity"

I tend to aim for more humidity for everything, where I have the control. I mean when I'm growing them on initially. My conservatory runs with water in the Spring, and my Toms, Cues and Aubergines get off to a flying start. I think it reduces transpiration, and thus they don't have to put any extra energy into "staying alive" and it all goes into growth.

Heightened chance of disease though, but in the Spring I don't find its a problem