Too shady for my greenhouse ?

Hi, We have a greenhouse in our garden that I tried to grow some simple stuff in last year - tomatoes, chillies, etc, and the results were pretty awful, and I think it's down the fact that it gets almost no direct sunlight. Though the garden is south facing, there is a 300ft hill directly behind us, and, as you can see from the pic, a neighbour's deciduous tree immediately on it's left and an evergreen on the right !



I'd like to have another go at growing, but I don't want to waste my time if the greenhouse is next to useless due to the shade. Moving the greenhouse is out, as we rent :-(

Is there anything I can do with this, or should I just abandon the idea and use it as a shed ? !

Many thanks.

 

Give it another try but with only tomatoes and stop them after 3 or 4 trusses. New compost as said by John and regular feeding with tomorite.

You should get a nice crop only twice as expensive as those in the shop (joke)

Would you believe that some peope have to provide shade in the summer fopr their greenhouses as it gets to hot

 

Ooh - now you're getting all technical on me ! :-)

I know nothing about gardening to be honest. I just bought some tomato, chilli, green pepper, leek and butternut squash plants and bunged 'em into the soil.

The soil inside the greenhouse was like dust when I first cleaned it out after we moved in - drier than the sahara - so I mixed in one bag of compost and soaked it all.

The end result was about twenty tomatoes. I did use organic plant food in the watering can every third watering, but I left my wife to prune them (sideshoot ?) as I have no idea what I'm doing ! Everything else stayed almost the same size as when I planted them, then eventually died. Even the savoy cabbages I planted in the garden got demolished in days by slugs and bugs - despite all the slug pellets and insect sprays.

I might ask our neighbour if I can chop off some of the bigger branches on the tree to the left - that would at least allow a few hours of direct sunlight per day (presuming we get any this year !).

I also have another greenhouse in bits in the garage that I might assemble and locate somewhere sunnier.

So, to summarise, what should I try growing in a shady greenhouse (apart from the cucumbers already mentioned) and what thrives best in a sunny one ?

Many thanks.

 

Use growbags and follow instructions.

Feed every tiome you water but at a reduced rate