Topic: I've just bought this greenhouse:

[wahaj]

Well my dad bought it for me anyway. I looked around all the websites you guys suggested and found this one in the end. it's the biggest one i could find under £300...which is what my dad in the end said he could spend. so £5 on top of that...it should be here within 28 days. here's hoping the frosts can hold on till them lol.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7050084.htm

i like it.

[Hyacinth]

Nice one, Wahaj 8) Thrilled to bits for you. Have you got a space ready in your garden for it, or have you got to re-jig things around?

btw....for staging someone's suggested those upturned black buckets with a plank across ;D

Cheers m'dear, Lishka

[wahaj]

lol.

um....it's not in the main garden. it's going to go in the back garden which at the momet is a patio-ed area that's got weeds growing through every little gap in the tiles. so i'm going to be chopping everything down today.....put salt in all the cracks and leave it all to settle for when it gets delivered.

[MrsKP]

Congrats wahaj.  and they're so easy to build (if the wind holds off and once you've figured out the instructions).

pictures please when ready.

 ;D

[newbies]

Congrats wahaj.  I was so giddy when I got my greenhouse, I was jumping up and down in a very dignified manner.
Top Tip:
for your tomatoes, Asda give away their black flower buckets for nothing.

[Hyacinth]

Top Tip:
for your tomatoes, Asda give away their black flower buckets for nothing.

As do the Co-Op  ;D ;D ;D

[MrsKP]

[Hyacinth]

 :P 8)

[wahaj]

lol

i got a call this morning! it arrives on monday! and i'm going to be at work...and the space it's going on is right now full off weeds and i don't know what to do because my grey bin is full and i don't have a compost bin.

sigh

[MrsKP]

black bag them until one arrives (see link below for your area - although yours are a bit pricier than my £6 ones and you don't need a base, just loads of twigs) .  they are soooooooo essential - i mean, where else would i put my tea bags ?  although you have to differentiate between annuals and perennials (which i have failed miserably to do yet), but everything rots eventually .... doesn't it ???

http://www.getcomposting.com/northants/index.htm

[Hyacinth]

Yep, a roll of black bags - well, any colour really ::) - and you're sorted. Mark our your area, get up earlier, go to bed later and easy-peasy..

I was phoned up 5 one evening, early summer, to be told my mine was arriving & being erected the following afternoon - it was a freebie resulting from a house move & the owner didn't want it left to be vandalized. I was going to be out that morning. Went straight out, marked up the space + 'bout 2 feet around in the field grass that's laughingly called a lawn and had been there for the 100yrs or so this house has been built, and started digging. Hard clay & red ants underneath. Didn't stop until it was finished bout 9.30pm. Cleared up, went into the house, passed a mirror - and went into shock. Both eyes were blood red with just blue bits in the centre. I'd broken every blood vessel in my eyes. Off to A&E.....had to wear dark glasses for ages so's I didn't frighten the kiddies. And THEN the damned house lay in its bits for a couple of weeks cos the bloke didn't have time to put it up >:(  Great fun, tho & I LOVE my little house  8)

[wahaj]

Yep, a roll of black bags - well, any colour really ::) - and you're sorted. Mark our your area, get up earlier, go to bed later and easy-peasy..

I was phoned up 5 one evening, early summer, to be told my mine was arriving & being erected the following afternoon - it was a freebie resulting from a house move & the owner didn't want it left to be vandalized. I was going to be out that morning. Went straight out, marked up the space + 'bout 2 feet around in the field grass that's laughingly called a lawn and had been there for the 100yrs or so this house has been built, and started digging. Hard clay & red ants underneath. Didn't stop until it was finished bout 9.30pm. Cleared up, went into the house, passed a mirror - and went into shock. Both eyes were blood red with just blue bits in the centre. I'd broken every blood vessel in my eyes. Off to A&E.....had to wear dark glasses for ages so's I didn't frighten the kiddies. And THEN the damned house lay in its bits for a couple of weeks cos the bloke didn't have time to put it up >:(  Great fun, tho & I LOVE my little house  8)

oh my. the joys of gardening eh? :-X

to be honest it shouldn't be that difficult in my case because it's all paved over and the weeds are coming up through the cracks. even though you cant see the paving anymore.

another problem is that by the time i'd be home, it'll be dark. and i don't have an outside light in the area it's going in.

i know it's all excuses but if i'd known earlier that it was coming monday i would have cleared the space. they told me it's going to take atleast 28 days. so i wasn't expecting it till the end of the month. i mean i'm not complaining...it's just going to sit there for a few days till i can put it up.

oh and is there anything i can use to heat it other than spend money on a greenhouse heater?

[MrsKP]

i'm trying the candle in a terracotta approach !

if you can find a way of stopping it going out, it can generate quite a bit of heat.

oh and have i mentioned, just back from carlisle and my team won !

happy kaypee tonight.

[GrowingChillis]

Regarding heating your greenhouse,
I watched a programme on bbc2 called -
Its not easy being green.
They had a greenhouse and wanted to save energy,
so they dug a cube square 2ft x 2ft hole, lined the 4 walls
and floor with polystyrene, then got lots of ground glass. I am
not sure where they got hold of the ground up glass, but they
filled the whole hole with the glass. I cant remeber exactly, but I imagine
they topped off the hole with another bit of polystyrene.
It then acted as a heat sink, and the nightime temperature was
acceptable, but I am not sure if this would still work in the winter, but
even if you used another heat source it would help to keep the heat.

Hope this helps

good luck

[silly billy]

You can line it with bubble wrap type insulation but I dont think that will keep it frost free, so you will need to get either an electric heater or a parafin one.I used to use parafin but its messy and you have to make sure you don't run out.So i use an electric one with a thermostat.
You don't have to use a proper greenhouse heater my friend uses an ordinary 2kw blow heater.Heating tubes are good aswell.

[wahaj]

yea...i've been told to use a parrafin heater....but i'm just not comfortable with having a flame inside my greenhouse overnight.

though the fan heater sounds fine. used to use one at school to dry them and they really use to warm the place out.

thanks for the advice peeps.

[MrsKP]

i have a paraffin heater, but have yet to discover where to buy the paraffin  ::) and also that it throws out loads of moisture.

am going to ask mr installing the security light electric person on tuesday how much it would cost to run an electrical supply to the g/h but then i have to weigh up the associated running costs.

decisions decisions

[wahaj]

i have a paraffin heater, but have yet to discover where to buy the paraffin  ::) and also that it throws out loads of moisture.

am going to ask mr installing the security light electric person on tuesday how much it would cost to run an electrical supply to the g/h but then i have to weigh up the associated running costs.

decisions decisions

yea i've never seen them anywhere.

i'm thinking i put in a few hundred tealights in everynight. hmmm  :-\

[silly billy]

I just ran an extension lead into my greenhouse and housed the cable in a hosepipe.Might not be the safest thing to do but mine has been fine for over 10yrs as long as you keep the water away from the plug sockets.
Lining the greenhouse cuts alot of the running costs an can be used as shading in the summer.

[MrsKP]

the kevin keegan perm would be quite apt for you silly billy  ;D