Greenhouse Growing

There aren’t too many worms in the greenhouse soil as I have been digging them up and feeding them to Bob Rob my pet Robin, the one I was worried I might blow up last winter.

Mine always get pests by spring but I keep them seperate from houseplants so I dont mind, they go outside where there are predators and the problem is resolved soon enough. Spider mites might be more of an issue, ladybirds dont seem to have the taste for them.

There are good quality plug and play greenhouse thermostats from Inkbird like their ITC 306/8/10 range or if you are competent with mains you can get the cheaper ITC 1000 though clearly you need a proper electrical housing etc for greenhouse use. There are cheaper clones on the usual sites but...

Season coming to an end for me up here, still getting a few strawberries and there are a few tomatoes to ripen, won't be long before I am clearing out and washing down the insides ready for next year. It's been a good harvest this year with early salads and peas followed by summer salads and...

I thought they were quite steep for what it is I could properly make one if need be, I tend to forget about cutting that's why I were considering one . Think I'd be better off investing in a heat mat or another propagator .

I'm curious as to why you are limited to such a small area ? Even with 'squarefoot gardening' you will not grow many of the varieties you mention. With supermarkets selling these staples so cheaply, why bother? If its just for 'sport' then choose one and concentrate upon it; to grow 6 cabbages...

I've had some experience of clear acrylic sheet, years ago I had one of those lean tos that had curved sections at the eves. In that case it was 3 mm and the fact it was bent in a curve gave it rigidity, not sure how ridgid it would be as a flat sheet in a gale.plastics usually expand more...

Its quite expensive last time I looked and does flex quite a bit IMO.

I'm very sorry for your loss, @AstraeusPerhaps, with time, the greenhouse could become a room for your Mother to enjoy herself when taking a break from outdoors gardening?First thing I'd buy is a chair. Depending on your Mother's taste and physical ability, a hanging egg chair or a rocking...

No matter how big a greenhouse you buy, you will always want a bigger one. I found a freeby, close to where I live, on my local Freecycle web site. My son in law and daughter borrowed a friend's trailer, went and lifted the whole thing onto the trailer, having removed the glass panes, and got...

The pop up greenhouse type of things really are a risk anywhere a breeze might get a bit on the strong side. The poles are usually metal, they are fine, the plastic covers are rather flimsy, the stitching can deteriorate quickly, but the real problem are the connecting plastic parts, they snap...

Too much searching for information can be bad for your gardening too. I've seen many posts from people scared to let pets out into gardens because they've read that plants, or parts of plants, can be poisonous. What the information generally fails to tell people, is how much of a plant would...

Just beginning work in the greenhouse, strawberries that were in pots are now in the border soil as they were struggling in pots last year, I have plenty of room as I am not growing sweetcorn in the greenhouse this summer.

Sadly we may never know.

@CanadianLori yes some of them can be short-lived - particularly the immersed ones. The pump I've got is not submersible, so I just leave it dry. It's the same pump I used to modify my knapsack sprayer from manual crank handle to be a "Frankensprayer". It's much lighter without all the piston,...

Just my thoughts, but I run mine at Just frost free, so around 3c min. But that's just to overwinter tender plants, nothing actually grows at those temperatures.I just get the feeling you might be burning paraffin with few results.

Or solar, when some of us live in the cloudiest part of the world!Thanks for link @pete - yes I use the Inkbird controller, as I find the ones inbuilt on heaters pretty random.

I'll light it later and see what happens. In honesty the permanent ventilation is good so it might just go outside in which case I'll bin it

I put my 12 by 12 up by myself, took a while as I was also sorting out newly built raised bed at the same time. Getting the end upright was a bit tricky, but managed with a friendly fence post, in the neighbours fence, some binder twine and a step ladder. The main roof beam was managed in the...