What to Grow

Hi
new here and have just put up a greenhouse and was wandering what to grow in it now any idea's please
cheers
Andy

 

Anyone have any idea's please

 

Cheers for your reply how easy is it to heat the greenhouse?

 

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 centre

Winter varieties of Lettuce (I never do well with that) you could sow. I would't buy plants unless you are sure that they are Winter varieties - Garden Centres put any old rubbish out and then unsuspecting folk assume that they have killed them :(

Heating:

Best way is electric. Thermostaticly controlled. Easy. Not cheap :(

I think that, scond best, [bottled] gas is better than Parafin. Parafin produces more condensation, and is harder to control - you just set the wick which may be too hot / wasting fuel on mild nights, and not warm enough on cold nights. Gas is more thermostatic. Not cheap :(

You can insulate the greenhouse with bubble wrap - there are little "suckers" that you get that will attach it to the glass to make a nice "inner tent"

But I think the only things you will grow with heat will be house plants (Freesias, Cyclamen, that sort of thing) until the early Spring (February) when you can start of Tomatoes earlier with heat.

But you may be able to start them just as early as seedlings on a Windowsill. That's what I do, they then go out into the (unheated) conservatory and I bring them into the house on evenings when the temeprature will fall below 10C [they don't need light at night, of course!]