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We are lucky enough to have a huge (but rotting ) greenhouse.

There's no staging etc in it, as the grapevine goes all the way around the top and the previous owner used to plant the whole thing with tomatoes.

I came up with a relatively cheap idea for some quick and removable staging.

I've got a wallpaper pasting table from B&Q - about 2m long and just over 60cm wide. It cost me under £10.

I also bought a small plastic dustsheet - about £2.50

I'm going to cover the end of the legs with plastic bags, to stop the soil making them damp and cover the top with the dustsheet as it's wood.

That means I can put all my seedlings and stuff on, and then when they are all outside and the weather is warmer, I can take the table down and use the full groundspace

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You could also use the pasting table as a BBQ table in the summer

i'd put a support up in middle (wooden post or something)as from what i know pasting tables tend to start drooping in the middle when they get heavy.

OOooooohhh..... What a good idea, when my greenhouse arrives sometime soon i will need staging and i already have some plastic i could use.

Think i will blatantly copy your idea, then when i plant up with toms and cucumbers i can use to table to decorate with.

Nice one.

My potting bench is a £5 plastic tray from Poundstretcher, which I stand on top of the small chest freezer in the shed. I do have one unit of proper aluminium staging in the greenhouse, but early in the year you need so much more. Until two weeks ago, I had the tiers from a small B & Q greenhouse (minus the cover) in the greenhouse. I went to move it, and all the plastic connectors disintegrated (exposure to sunlight I suspect). The metal bits are still OK, so I just need to improvise some supports.

I got lucky at work the other day, we've just taken the Meguiars range of car cleaning products off a lovely free standing shelf unit, so guess whats now sitting in our greenhouse waiting for some seedlings to inhabit it!

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Last updated 13th July 2008

I made my own and it's height adjustable, this is the best foto I've got at the mo



As you can see it needs a bit of padding to gert really comfy (what you can't see is the fan heater thats gently wafting warm air over a certain liver & white helper

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what variety of veggie is that then Nick, certainly looks gorgeous

I think they are Charlotte spud ...... or did you mean Nacho

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ntg

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A large group of professionals built the Titanic

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nacho.... although your spuds look nice too

coo thanks Hans Mum nobody's said that for a while. I don't show people me tatties these days ...... not since the last court case

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Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/