Topic: Using mini greenhouse

[dtw]

My cats sit on mine too, I had to reinforce the roof with some polycarbonate sheeting to stop damage to the plants on the top shelf.

[sunloving]

I think the idea with the water bottles is not to fill them with hot water but to use them as heat storage is when its sunny they heat up and give on this heat over night, giving your greenhouse a more even temp regime.
They are useful alternative to bricks in the bottom to

x sunloving

[pigeonseed]

Hi everyone, I feel I've sort of joined the greenhouse club.  :)

This is my home-made mini greenhouse under construction.


I'm going to be able to get tomatoes and cucumbers out into it to make room for beans and squash on my window-sill! I bought the plastic sheet on ebay. I plan to convert three beds to temporary greenhouses this way. They're all against a warm west-facing wall.

I feel quite excited about it!

[1066]

I feel quite excited about it!

and so you should  ;D

[manicscousers]

just transferred 24 tomatoes to my indoor mini greenhouse, another 12 tomorrow to be followed by peppers to make way for cucumbers, beans, corn, melon and courgettes on the windowsills  ;D

[cornykev]

I put some potted up cauli's in my MG yesterday.  :D

[Duke Ellington]

Kev ....is your mini greenhouse inside a glass greenhouse? or is standing outdoors?

Duke

[pigeonseed]

I made another mini greenhouse with bamboo and plastic. I've gone mini-greenhouse crazy! I'll stop now.  ;D

[1066]

looks a good use of space to me  :)
I need some plastc sheeting for a cold frame that Mr 1066 is going to make me, must remember to check ebay out  :)

[pigeonseed]

This is the one I got. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280560094324

I'm pleased, very thick plastic. I'm hoping it'll last a few years if I take it indoors overwinter. I do have environmental qualms, still digging strips of plastic sheet out of my allotment, which was uncultivated for many years...  :-\  If I can make it last a few years I'll feel better.

[1066]

thanks for the link  :)

I know exactly what you mean about enviro concerns, but I've had the "joy" of digging up glass in the garden and the allotment, so tend to avoid glass  :-\

[cornykev]

Mines standing outdoors Duke, the back against a fence and the side against my shed.  :D

[Dandytown]

My plastic one had been blown around the allotment last week as the bricks and slabs didnt hold it in place.

I have removed the cover and pushed the frame deep into the ground and covered with debri netting.  Has made a lovely brassica cage

[landimad]

Here is mine,
http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad68/landimad/garden/05-04-2011/minigreenhouse.jpg

And here is how I fixed it down.
http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad68/landimad/garden/05-04-2011/fixings.jpg

A piece of old hose to use as a slide and the washing line to fix to the fence.