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09-01-2007, 04:07 PM
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 Clean your greenhouse! Wellie and Trousers have done theirs as have I done mine. Before you start filling your greenhouse up with suculent ready meals for red spider mite and aphids to name a few pests, take an hour or two to give it a good clean. Not wishing to teach you how to suck eggs, but here is how I do it. 1) Completely empy out the greenhouse of everything. Plants will need to be temporarilly moved outside or if too cold relocated for a short while. 2) Clear up all plant debris, inluding old leaves, stems, even mouldy bits of fallen tomato. 3) Clear out the moss from the rails if you have any growing. 4) Spray inside and out with Armillatox or simillar using a hand sprayer and then wash off after a few minutes either by hand or with a jet-washer. Ensure you get in all of the nooks and crannies. 5) Before bringing anything back into the greenhouse add any compost or manure to the beds if applicable as its easier to do when empty. 6) Bring staging etc back in after cleaning down with Armillatox and then washing clean. 7) Get ready to grow your own in a sparkly clean environment.
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs Last edited by pigletwillie; 09-01-2007 at 04:08 PM.      |
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09-01-2007, 05:22 PM
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| Thanks for the advice PW - guess it will help if my greenhouse has been built before I try to clean it though  |
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09-01-2007, 05:50 PM
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| With only getting our greenhouse in October last year we cleaned it as soon as we'd put the framework together, and cleaned the glass before it was out in, seemed to be much easier that way round! When we went to collect and dismantle it it was thoroughly covered in moss and crawling with snails, but now its the cleanest and shiniest on the plot! 
__________________ Blessings Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby) 'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'! The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress! Last updated 5th November2008 - new piccies! |
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09-01-2007, 05:51 PM
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| Mine still looks brandspanking new! although I'm sure that's not a good reason for not cleaning it! |
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09-01-2007, 06:33 PM
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09-01-2007, 08:02 PM
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| I'm afraid I cheated and had mine put up by the specialists. Cost me a bit, but at least I got the foundations in properly, the greenhouse up and the area landscaped. That was last August, so now I'm just raring to go! |
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09-01-2007, 08:05 PM
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| Hah, if I could get someone to actually arrive and do the garden clearing work they quoted for I would be laughing!!! I have had three quotes over the last five years and I am still waiting for just one company to actually turn up and do the darned work - I have a better chance of getting it done if I wait for OH to help! |
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09-01-2007, 10:56 PM
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| Shirley Won't the greenhouse company do it for you? I had to clear and level the ground but thought the errection of the greenhouse beyond me, the extra cost was around £200 but I thought worth it, he put the foundations in and constructed it all in a day. Very efficient and quick. And pigletwillie thanks for the reminder, have made a half hearted start but there is so little room what with the worms overwintering and the water butt having overflowed so mud, great puddles and only inches of space. Still I have started on the boring job of cleaning the pots. Sue |
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09-01-2007, 11:09 PM
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| I'm now incredibly impatient to get out in the garden and start cleaning stuff! Everytime I look out of the window and see the dead stuff hanging around in the greenhouse it's almost painful. Except I went investigating last week and found the path to be far too slippery for a nearly 9 month pregnant fat lady. So it'll have to wait another week or two. *sigh* I'm so desperate to be gardening, I'd even enjoy cleaning the greenhouse glass!
__________________ Kris I child-proofed my house, but they still manage to get in. Muddy Musings - a blog |
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09-01-2007, 11:21 PM
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| Thanks PW. Now all I need is a green house. What's that noise? Oh... the world smallest violin
__________________ Shortie "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter |
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10-01-2007, 08:57 AM
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10-01-2007, 09:12 AM
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If all else fails, clean the ktichen floor!!!
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat Last edited by madderbat; 10-01-2007 at 09:13 AM. Reason: forgot kitchen floor |
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10-01-2007, 10:16 AM
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| Always give me a really good clean when I empty it out in the autumn and compost all the old tomatoes / peppers etc. At present it's wrapped up with polystyrene and bubble wrap all over for overwintering stuff so won't be cleaning it again until I set it up for summer. Do go and clear out any dead leaves etc and have got sticky traps up to catch the odd flying insect which is making the most of the slightly warmer environment.
__________________ Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now. Which one are you and is it how you want to be? |
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10-01-2007, 01:57 PM
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Mind you, I'm usually pretty drenched by the time I've hosed the glass down so maybe it's a way to save water!!!
__________________ Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now. Which one are you and is it how you want to be? |
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10-01-2007, 02:44 PM
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| Thanks for the reminder... Am suplhur-bombing ours this weekend, as its so big, and I don't think the previous owners ever cleaned anything! Question though: am I better off cleaning the glass etc after I smoke-bomb it? OWG
__________________ "Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne |
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10-01-2007, 02:47 PM
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| Perhaps cleaning it before will disturb and expose any unwanteds ready for the sulphur bomb to exterminate.
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs |
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10-01-2007, 06:27 PM
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| we have two greenhouses and though its not my favourite job the glass has to be cleaned and sprayed with armillatox along with all the stageing and while im covered in armillatox i spray and clean all the terracotta pots, plastic small pots and seed trays . Its now been a couple of weeks and wellies has already begun to fill it with her girls |
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10-01-2007, 06:29 PM
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10-01-2007, 06:39 PM
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| Greenhouse and Fungii? We had to reglaze our greenhouse roof today, when we put it up we didnt put enough s-clips on the bottom panes, so had to remove the whole roof to fit some in (as the glass had slipped down, see the first attached piccy)! Mr D is now planning on re-cleaning it again before we do any planting in their, it was done as we errected it, but he's right in saying better safe than sorry! We did notice some fungii growing in the north bed inside the greenhouse, I've attached a piccy of it, it looks like orange peel, as we are a little worried whether this is something that may effect our ability to grow in the soil inside there, the other side is fine, no fungii at all! Anyone have any idea about this fungii, is it something we should be worried about, is it edible? Should we sulphur bomb it / or armillatox it? Should we resort to using growbags for this year? ANy ideas / info / hints / tips would be appreciated! 
__________________ Blessings Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby) 'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'! The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress! Last updated 5th November2008 - new piccies! |
