Grow Your Own wants ........

[scarey55]

If I had a greenhouse,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I had a greenhouse man.
I wouldn't have to buy one.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.

Tee hee, loving that HW
See Scarey walking around the house singing that now

[rustylady]

Most important tip I've found is clean it before winter. Clear out spent plants, dropped leaves etc. Move everything you can outside and give the whole thing a good wash. Cleaning the glass/plastic admits maximum light which is essential during winter, and washing/disinfecting will deal with mould spores and plant diseases. When all clean and dry bring back overwintering plants. I don't heat my greenhouse and generally use it to overwinter fuchsias, pelargoniums etc, and also in early spring to germinate new seeds. Keep everything on the dry side, fuchsias and pelargoniums cope with cold and dry, but not cold and wet, which leads to rotting. Even if you heat your greenhouse you need to be aware that during winter light levels are lower, and too much heat/water combined with low light levels will lead to soft vulnerable growth.

[Flummery]

A good clear-out in late autumn/early winter also allows you to see where the little blighters (slug/snails) are hiding. I evicted one at the weekend when doing the border at one side.

[Protea]

If you don't grow crops in the sil in your greenhouse, i would suggest laying a floor of some description - we laid paving slabs as last winter some of my staging started sinking into the soil under the weight of all the overwintering plants and going skew-wif! having bare soil also meant there were loads of weeds popping up everwhere ready to wreak havok in spring. A level floor is safer for you to walk on, easier to clean (sweep up dropped compost and blast with a pressure hose), means your staging doesn't topple over (!) and provides a level base to stand heaters on in the colder months!

[lainey lou]

Don't go on! I've said I'm going to get you one!

KK

Ha HA! You now have it in writing scarey! With witnesses too!

[scarey55]

Sorry to hi-jack this thread a bit but...... Guess what I've got.

A lovely noo 6x8 ft greenhouse. Now the only problem is where to put it and no, I don't want answers on a postcard.

Looking forward to reading all about how to use it on this thread.

You're next Lainey Lou

[Hazel at the Hill]

Sorry to hi-jack this thread a bit but...... Guess what I've got.

A lovely noo 6x8 ft greenhouse. Now the only problem is where to put it and no, I don't want answers on a postcard.

Looking forward to reading all about how to use it on this thread.

You're next Lainey Lou

You jammy b*gger!

NOW I'm jealous!

[Nicos]

Keep a couple of spare panes of glass for emergency repair, and replace them ASAP .

[lainey lou]

Sorry to hi-jack this thread a bit but...... Guess what I've got.

A lovely noo 6x8 ft greenhouse. Now the only problem is where to put it and no, I don't want answers on a postcard.

Looking forward to reading all about how to use it on this thread.

You're next Lainey Lou

HURRAH FOR YOU!!!
Hope you have lots of fun with your greenhouse.

[Flummery]

IT WON'T BE BIG ENOUGH! However, you'll have loads of fun and be able to grow a wider range of stuff. Even an unheated house really extends what you can grow. Have fun!

[moggssue]

Oohhhh, scarey, lucky thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you gonna grow in it??

[scarey55]

Flum,
I know it won't be big enough but I'm working on Scared for another one already - trouble is, when he's made a nice base and put this one up I think he might say NO MORE These things are not usually as we expect. "Oh, I'll get that up in no time - just find me a bit of flat gound" I'll let you know how we get on - perhaps even a pic or two.

Moggsue,
Don't know yet - just got jealous of everyone else's and wanted one I think there will be some peppers and chillies (Wellie bought some of hers over and they looked so good, probably won't be able to grow them as good looking as hers though)
I'm thinking of melons too, oh, cucumbers, obviously tomatoes, and ooh those little yellow berries that have "paper" outsides....... Actually Flum, you're right - it's not big enough

[Hazel at the Hill]

... I think there will be some peppers and chillies (Wellie bought some of hers over and they looked so good, probably won't be able to grow them as good looking as hers though)
I'm thinking of melons too, oh, cucumbers, obviously tomatoes, and ooh those little yellow berries that have "paper" outsides....

Auber-jeans too? Don't think the cape goosegog necessarily needs to be in a greenhouse - after all, you've a fig outside, haven't you? Boot has both of these pot grown outside in a sheltered spot (I think).

Oh sorry - I forgot - I'm not talking to you. Hrmph.

[scarey55]

See Doll, I knew they made didn't make you MOM for nothing - couldn't remember the name Cape Goosegogs. Talking about a fig - looked at a pot today 51 bl**dy euros - that's early 40 quid I think it's going to take it's chances in the "orchard"

Auber-jeans, now I might give them a try 'specially if you get the shoes thrown in Grew them outside though this year and seemed to do quite well - even if I didn't know what I was doing - should be brill in my noo greenhouse

[andrewo]

Remember that it's not only your house that needs a spring clean, your greenhouse does too. After all, you wouldn't leave that fungus in the bathroom to grow. So, you shouldn't let it a foothold in your greenhouse.

Clean greenhouse, clean plants, good crops.