Greenhouse Growing

hi.i had 3 parasene big red heaters in my greenhouses years ago all rubbish I was using 4lts a night no good got my old Aladdin 201 202 and 203 heaters all my 3 greenhouses are full of bedding plants.

You can sow Parsley in autumn, for it to grow (slowly) through winter.

Agree, also with my type the spring loses tension once taken on/off a few times, so new ones are a good idea (and pretty cheap too on tinternet)

Hugs kaz

Pretty much. The plants perform the expensive compression phase for free (liquid to gas ), which takes a lot of energy but again its provided for free by the sun. The fan just moves the vapour to the "condenser", which is the soilmass/heatsink. The system just takes advantage of what plants do...

How are you heating your greenhouse?

Better late than never.I have been starting my tomatoes and pepper seedlings in one of these "blow aways" with a stack of bricks securing it and the results have been good.As far as pests go, I need to be careful to keep the bigger plants away from the sides as once a slug finds it's way...

If anything I think Electric will be cheaper (excluding the cost of connecting electricity to the greenhouse) In a normal/mild winter the heater will come on very little, the ability to thermostatically control it means power is only used when the temperature is low. In a very cold winter the...

I have been reading through this thread, bit of an oldie one. I used the latger Eltex, twin tanks etc plus a water tray above the flues. In fact it was only last year I dumped the heater. A few points to observe when using paraffin or any portable heater. Make sure it's standing firm and...

Only just noticed this. There are a few "errors / misconceptions" (sorry if I am being pedantic) First RCD stands for Residual Current Device. It Doesn't "monitor" anything on the earth wire because that may have been cut. (lawnmower etc) It actually "monitors" both the Live and Neutral, its...

a couple of years ago we were inundated with the flies off the horse muck in the pollytunnel, we had plants in there and did not want to use chemicals so we set fire to a load of paper in the middle of the floor, and the smoke seemed to drive the flies out of the door dawn

How to stop greenhouse glass blowing out.About five years ago, having endured 3 years of glass 'exploding' out of my extremely exposed greenhouse, (and despite trying all the tricks suggested online), I came up with a solution that has resulted in NO loss of glass since that time (touch...

Best option, worked for me for twenty years. If the ground is reasonably compacted after digging out, 3X2 paving slabs aren't goint to shift as long as they are level and the weight will be distributed along the length. Never had a paving slab crack.

By all means, contact Elite but this link may help, it may not be for your exact model, but it should give you a starting point.

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My brother used creosote to kill ivy. He reckons it's the only thing that works totally.

Poisounous smoke! what was made of? Just think if that got into the wrong hands!

Hi, By the sounds of it I think itâ??s the same gutters my granâ??s greenhouse has. The guttering problem was solved in two ways:One gutter has sort of what Kristen said but I think a piece of sheet aluminium was used. Then a bit of hard plastic pipe a bit bigger than the diameter of a...

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But you don't want the Gun and Silicone, so I've got to take them back now ...