Greenhouse Growing

Right, let's try again....Excellent - that's worked. Thanks for liking me!

My only negative point is that the boiler is outside the greenhouse (not that you would necessarily want the fire inside the greenhouse) and all the "waste heat" from the boiler itself getting hot is going to be wasted. If you have plentiful fuel then probably not a problem.Very small firebox...

Thanks Charlie, I will see how it goes.

Many thanks to you both for your suggestions.

Thank you for the input @Zigs and @Selleri . I will remove the fans and timers and rehook up one timer down by the battery in the cellar to run the waterproof leds. Maybe I'll reconfig the whole shebang so that I only have to rehang the fans come spring

@longk ....It certainly is a balancing act....that sun has still got some heat in it even now and the odd bits and bobs i've got on my heated bench that i'm trying to keep frost free and put to sleep are tempting fate by trying to wake up.... i need to be on the ball and get the doors open and...

WOW!! That is scary. So glad nobody was injured or worse.

hi snowflakethis is a pop up green househttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250146713598and what a load of poo i bought too :( it sure pops up but rips as good as it went upso after a week i slung it in the bin and bought this...

Spinach is another toughy that you might try btw. You need to have started it a few weeks ago though as its too late to sow anything from seed now.

Light will be your problem. You could grow [Autumn-sown] Potatoes and Dwarf French Beans (without heat) but they would have needed to have been sown at the start of August.We grow Chard over winter. It doesn't do much during the winter (I grow in unheated greenhouse, but I doubt that there is...

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

Meh……18” will be enough, i dont want them huge, only two of us in the house

There may be a problem with a clay layer below surface level. I had something similar - each time it rained I had standing water in the back garden. I dug a sump hole through the clay - about 5 - and filled the hole with rubble/stones'. In 25 years I have not had a repeat. My son had a similar...

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Hi icom and welcome to the forum - I hope you are still with us. I am afraid I have only just seen your post.Was the water container higher than the tray? If it was the capillary matting would make the water siphon out from the higher level to the lower level, in exactly the same way as a...

Two season on, and if (when?!!) I do it again, I would choose Flood and Drain. Many plants are two wet on capillary matting, although the ability of the matting to hold water means that nothing goes dry easily.I have lots of slugs and snails this year (everywhere, as does everyone else), but...

I water every day and feed once a week when setting fruit, but increase to twice a week when heavily fruiting. I also cut the end off a milk carton and sink it in the ground next to the plant and water through this. This is especially good for cucumbers so that the stem doesn't rot which is...

If you have borders in the tunnel, rather than solid floor, I would grow winter crops. We enjoy Chard - as Lea said. We don't get much in the way of a crop during the winter, but in the spring before the Tomatoes etc. are planted out we get loads from it.Lamsb Lettuce is another that should...

In the greenhouse, a fan,lamp/heating mat are needed. Humidity also important in planting. And a thermostat/humidistat simplify all. Inkbird being the sponsor here in the forum, we are supplier of humidity/temperature control. If anyone need us,please feel free to contact me directly.

We've watered all our plants for sale, except edibles, with Vine Weevil killer. A couple of thousand of them