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Getting like a jungle in there.  Am fast running out of space.

The floor!

OMG!!!! i sort of imagined your greenhouse to look like that!!!  ;)
mine is being built as we speak i am so excited! ;D
Jemma xxx

I wonder if you couldn't rent that big Victorian greenhouse they have in Kew Gardens.................maybe too small for you?

Your pictures give a very good idea of how much you are growing. Thanks for posting. So nice to see what others are up to.
Good luck.

OMG!

i am actually so excited that i can recognise what you have in there - only a few days ago i would not have been able to identify a brassica seedling :D

How do you keep your things so flourishing, Emma, when they are on 'under' stagings & floor?

mine's not that bad....yet!
nice to see pictures.

 :o Tidy that lot up a bit will yer!!!

Just finished putting another one(8x6) up at weekend and when I got home monday she had filled it!

I often get moaned at for rummaging in skips for pallets to make compo heaps and when I go to the tip I come back with something I never took!

Caught her out the other day ;D she comes home with some staging/shelving that was just about to go into a skip :o

will post piccies og greenhouses soon & will try to catch them while they are a mess and blame Becky!

Andy

 :o Emma you never cease to amaze me, I just don't know how you cope ::) ;D what's in those teenyweeny pots in the second piccy, reason I ask is that I have a few and was wondering what on earth I could put in em? ;D

I shuffle things around as best I can Tim and everything does seem to do just fine.  I do have some sliver reflective paper on one side to try and reflect more light.
The teeny pots are used when potting up teeny seedlings.  My chilli seedlings went in them, now I have some with salvia seedlings in.  To be honest Roy, if it can hold compost, there is a good chance I can find something to go it them!
It is always a mess, year round!  Even when I tidy it is a mess, but it is mine and I love it with a passion.  I adore my greenhouse and have it packed to the rafters year round.

Wow EJ, yours is obviously a very productive G'house!! Puts my recently aquired effort to shame!!

Emma, love the pics of your amazing g'house.
I just got a new one (well 2nd hand via ebay  ;D).
Brian, my OH hs just spent an age putting it all together, finished it Monday and at last it is up & running. So I can now really start inearnest. I have a sweet little octagonal one which is FAR FAR too small, but was all I could fit in before so there was a bit of garden left to actually plant things. But now we have the lottie, well need more greenhouse space to start off all the extra plants we're gonna need! You guys understand Yes??
Anyway here's a few pics of the greenhouses so far. As you can see I have no extra shelves yet - awaiting delivery and all the plants are still at seedling stage in weeny pots. Come mid/late May I suspect I'll have the same problem of lack of space, but at present it is great to have so much more of it. Haven't even sown lots of outdoor things like toms, courgettes, cucumbers etc.
Like Emma, I absolutely adore it and am out there any chance I get. Will try to post a few pics , haven't done this for a while so could need several attempts.
Also a pic of my baby greenhouse toms and my other greenhouse.


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Am having all sorts of problems posting these pics - all different sizes and how do you pst several pics together??
Aaaaarrrghhh

Good to see these pics.  I'm very jealous indeed  :(    Great buy off eby that! Wow!!  I would love a greenhouse but I think I might soon be the proud owner of a pile of scrap masquerading as a greenhouse.  One of the old lotty guys has given it to me.  Mangled metal and broken glass.  Aren't I the lucky one  ;D   Silk purse and sow's ear springs to mind.

I bet you can't wait for the extra shelving to arrive so you can start packing em in.  I see from EJ's post that not a square inch of space goes to waste in her greenhouse - I don't know how she has room to turn round  ;D

Post another pic when you get it filled  :)

Aha! Same as the one I just got for free! ;D

Wattapain - You did well with that purchase off Ebay ! :o   I never thought they sold greenhouses on there !?

Well done - And the plants look just gorgeous!

;) :D

Marianne, they sell anything and everything on ebay!!  ;D ;D

Terri

The older one we got free!
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The newer(free(old))one!

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Including the staging "she" rescued from a skip!!!
Becky now has the skip rummaging fever... ;D

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Ooooh Andy you lucky devil, TWO free greenhouses -  I am absolutely green with envy. And the staging as well - how do you do it?  ::)

Your plantslook really great too.  Don't you all agree this is a lovely time of year - all those babies growing away with the promise of all those gorgeous veggies to come!
Think i needa drink!!  ::) ;D ::) ;D
Terri

Yeah till today and it has started snowing down here near Gatwick! Not much though. Had to put greenhouse heaters on tonight though and fleece the peas at the allotment... Thought summer was here last week, a few weeks ago I got sunburnt at plot. 8)

Wattapain,

Yes I know, I have bought and sold quite a bit too but greenhouses!?  :o I am going there now to see if I can get a good deal ! ;D

Andy : Wow I am envious !  :D

I got sunburnt too  :)  Fab greenhouse and lovely staging.  It's amazing what folks chuck in skips..   they must have absolutely no imagination  ;D   Your seeds look healthy and happy so you should get some lovely veggies.  What's going on the vacant bits of shelving?

Not sure, Becky is in charge of that! it will get filled and she will moan about running out of very soon! runners,sweetcorn,celery and spring onions and raddish, are but a few that will be in soon to name a few!

Finally got my Morrions's greenhouse together.   For £20 I'm well impressed.   It's far bigger than I expected & the built-in shelf is a godsend.

So far have some sunflowers and marigolds a neighbour gave me (she always grows excess).   Have also got aubergine going, should be getting toms, cues, melon & pepper in later this week.

Here's a pic of it.

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Oh Carrotcruncher ! that looks great !!  Everything looks nice and tidy in there ! Well done !

:D ;)

CC you finally got it up! Hurrah! I do find mine drips on me often, but for £20, who cares!! (Also every flying creature meets there and can't figure out how to get out! ;D ) I bought a plastic shelving unit from Focus which fits in on the end nicely, and yes mine is already packed to the gunnels!

Hey EJ your plants are bigger than mine  :'(

Here is my freebie staging, from around the back of my neighbours garage.

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I use a mini greenhouse (£9.99) inside the big greenhouse for seed growing. Those few extra degrees make all the difference.

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Keep watering

"I use a mini greenhouse (£9.99) inside the big greenhouse for seed growing. Those few extra degrees make all the difference"


Now that is a really good idea for all those tender littlle tomato seedlings which would not like those loooow night time temps. Gonna get one sorted on Wednesday.
Thanks, terri  8) :)

Those plassy ones look great!  And for twenty quid, what a bargain!!  Now of course I am thinking, where can I put one!  That sort of thing would be ideal down on the allotment huh.  No probs with broken glass!  Now where is my nearest Wilkos?????!!!!! ;D

It's too late for Wilkos in my case.

I had put my second lot of morning glory seedlings in the cold frame.  When I opened it the morning after the cold spell we had last week, their secondary leafs had all wilted and they looked rather sick.  I quickly brought them indoors on the windowsill hoping they would pick up but not much is happening.  Although three of them have grown some little leaves today.   I should have probably put them in a greenhouse like you have all done.  :'(

If I want to increase the temperature I use some cheap food bags from Wilkos. (12p for 25)

I just pop a bag over the plant pot & secure with an elastic band, put a small hole in the bag & then leave it in the greenhouse, every so often I check if it needs watering.   It worked a treat last year for my fuschia cuttings.   I took the cuttings, plopped them in damp compost, covered them with a large food bag, put them in my small greenhouse & ignored them all winter.   They rooted lovely & are now in the open in my back yard.

CC

Hi CC

I normally put plastic bags over cuttings - they root much faster that way !

Never thought of doing it for seedlings though. ::).. I will do that next time - Thank you !

Marianne.,  how did you do on ebay? Did you findanything?
Large items like greenhouses are tricky cos you have to find one you want in your area as they are usually collect only ( bit big to post!!). Then you have to actually win the auction which can be easier said than done.
I got a bit fed up when I was looking for mine - kept getting outbid on all the local ones, and so when this one came up, I contacted the seller by pm and asked her if she would let me know her reserve price which I thought was a fair one, and she took it off and we did a deal. ome sellere will do that but others won't  but I thought it was worth a try and it paid off for me.
Good luck if you're still looking
Terri

Hi Terri,

I found stacks of greenhouses, some big and some small - I need a dwarf one ! LOL ::) ;D as hubby says we do not have enough room on the patio.  The garden is tiny  :'(

So I will have to content myself with my cold frame (pic attached)  :'(
I suppose it's better than nothing !
Thanks for asking Terri :)

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small garden? Just build a small 3x2 greenhouse which is tall, really tall!
About the height of the house with ladder beside it!

Get loads in it or one really tall sunflower ;D

The sunflowers are in the coldframe Andy and they will soon be ready for transplanting in the border.  Last year's grew up to 2 metres and I had not even planted it. probably the birds who dropped it there/ :D

The garden is about 12 foot by 10 foot so very tiny but I have lots of pots and containers on the two patios which are about the same size.  I suppose I should be happy to have anything at all !
:D

It's alright for you lot with proper greenhouses :P, I've got a 4 foot by 4 foot North facing home made lean too that's packed to the roof, still manage to grow enough to fill the allotment though...............just :-\

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Pleeease everyone who wants a mini-greenhouse, rush on down to your local Robert Dyas - 4-shelves tall for £14.99 - the cheapest I've seen yet, AND they do re-inforced (i.e. thicker) replacement covers for under a tenner...

...and no, I don't work for them - but I'm going to be their best customer!

Like your lean to MT  :)  It looks like it's well used.  I couldn't see an inch of space in there.  It just shows what can be achieved with a bit (or lot) of ingenuity  :)

Quote from: Amazin on April 22, 2005, 01:00:15
Pleeease everyone who wants a mini-greenhouse, rush on down to your local Robert Dyas - 4-shelves tall for £14.99 - the cheapest I've seen yet, AND they do re-inforced (i.e. thicker) replacement covers for under a tenner...

...and no, I don't work for them - but I'm going to be their best customer!

And the one I went in to on the weekend had the 6x4 walk in ones for £25!  :o

Merry Tiller - Marvellous work you done there !  :D

Amazin - I have already got mine for slightly higher.
;)

Carrot Cruncher, never thought to keep pot noodle tubs as pots, will be recycling every plastic tub i use in the future  ;D

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Soup containers, pot noodle tubs, you name it I find a use for it  ;D   Pot noodle containers make good paint brush cleaning pots.  The soup ones I make into slug traps  ;D

Like the greenhouses folks.  Wish I had one  :)

Wow - Aren't we all so resourceful!  Every container comes in handy !   ::)
I purchased some meat today and said to OH "Wow I will keep these trays for gardening"!

He looked at me as though I had lost the plot but I am sure I will find a use for them !  ;D ::) :P

Happy gardening all !
;D

 ;D And just got called certain things again as I rescued a HUGE pot out of trailer load at mates destined for the dump!

Gonna be great to dig into ground so I can have some bamboo at plot without all the others panicing! :D

 :D :D :D this is fun!  :D :D :D

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 ;D Your right that looks fun ;D I wish I had room for a lovely setup like you have. Where's that green with envy smiley :-\ ;D

Cheers Roy  :) It's just a bog standard 8x6, I got it for nothing a couple of years back. If we had a green smiley I'd be using it when viewing your tropical plants!  ;)

Military training, Simon?

Wow Simon, that is very professional !!!!  Lucky you!  I am also very envious .... Well done !  :D

 :) Thanks Marrianne! No not military Tim but parks department - 12 years service 81-93! Only worked in the glasshouses at busy times but got the jist of it. This is only my second year with my own greenhouse and coldframes, I'm still learning and finding things out as I go along.

But both my Dad and grandad were navy and my eldest boy's just come out after 4 years on nuclear submarines. Dad was in the navy from a boy and a  gunnery lieutenant through the war, and is still around to tell the tale!

Close, then??

Parks? - you ought to see Cheltenham's gardens - what organisation it must take. They've prompted more than one 'thank you' letter from me.

I got a 6 x 8 greenhouse given to me today all in bits and I don't which bit is which.  It had lots of glass with it but my husband broke every piece that was left taking the panes out which were siliconed in.  I don't know why he had to remove every good piece of glass but I'm jolly miffed as now I only have the skeleton of the greenhouse.  The only thing which survived was the door (I hope)  I now have lost all enthusiasm as I could have afforded to buy the odd plane of glass or polycarb but now I have to do the whole lot so it will have to wait.   :(

 :( How sad Wardy :( My Daughter broke only one pane out of a double window of my new secondhand shed ::) today and thought hmm! oh well but a greenhouse Oh! b***er >:(

yeah! I moaned when OH cleaning glass of free 2nd hand one and she broke 2 panes....... :(

Just had enough bits to patch up,even used broken bit over another broken bit to make whole pane... ;D

But a whole GH :o :-\ :-X

Keep the frame and look for other free ones with glass!
Mind you, our recent gain had diff size pains labelled A to I
What a pain that was :-*

Good job last owner had kept the manual for over 20 years!!!!! :D

My OH prefers smashing glass to gardening unfortunately.  I'm really cross with him and he knows it  >:(

Its only my first spring with a proper GH and already I think I've out grown it!

It was only a 6'x5', streamline one chosen to fit on the patio. I later changed my mind and put it up the garden (where a bigger one would've fitted). Its been choca block in there since late winter. Had to move some things out and squeeze the rest up to clear the border ready for the tomatoes. And i still have some seedlings in the conservatory that will go out there at some stage.

If I had the space in the garden and could get hold of one cheaply I'd have a second one like a shot! One for propagating/growing the other for overwintering and growing crops (tomatoes).

Good to see other peoples greenhouses - to see i am not alone!  ;D

Wardy,

At this time of year a cover of 500 gauge plastic will be enough to carry on the plant raising process and be good enough to raise tomatoes etc, that will give you until September to made him feel so bad that he replaces the glass or, given his obvious affinity for it, gives you the cash to replace the glass

Phil

Yes Phil I think it will have to be plastic - even he can't break that  ;D

Wardy

My allotment neighbour has a greenhouse covered in plastic.. I gave him some tomato plants last week and within a couple of days they were streets ahead of mine in a conventional greenhouse.. maybe the plastic holds the heat/humidity better?

Certainly more cost effective and if those results were anything to go by it works better too

Cheers
Derek

Ta Derek.  My OH wants to cover it in plastic nailed to wooden battens.  I know that it will become a shed - dirty great planks of wood with a couple of strips of plastic for windows  :(

Phil recommends 500 ml gauge plastic and I have found some on a web site which is about £35 so that looks favourite. 

Just got to get the money off OH  ;D

Arrgh................... wind...................

My plastic greenhouse took off. We had a mini tornado type thingy. My overspill was an old market stall, made of metal and hammered into ground, then covered with plastic poly tunnel sheets! Still took off.

Spent yesterday rescuing my morning glories, snap dragons, cues, herbs , cabbages and hanging basket plants. Luckily not too many have been composted.

Even more determined to get another proper greenhouse now. this is the second year my plastic has flown. Last years was worse, it went three gardens over. I had one of those 24.99 jobs then.

I am surprised my neighbours do not have their cam corders out at the slightest sign of wind. Look out for me on You've been framed next year.

Had to laugh at that :-X(sorry)
But my mums took of last year and missed next door and landed in flats past them.
Must have reached good altitude! :o
If it went the other way it may have made a landing on runway 26L at Gatwick :-X

I just had to send mum a text telling her that her GH was going clockwise on M25 past junction 10........

Chortle  ;D

Sorry to hear of your greenhouse woes folks but still had to laff at visions of them sailing off into the wide blue yonder.  They probably have a destination, you know like elephants have their graveyard ....  ;D

 ;DAll my mums plants have a destination like the elephants! The graveyard! :-X :-X :-X

She has good intentions but she would be better off helping us at plot rather than murdering plants at home :o Second thoughts...

She would probably weed out newly plants crops :-\

She still has better altitude over us on the GH though :D

oo-er!
this gives me the shudders!
i'm just about to put my plastic greenhouse up to warm the soil for me melons-in flat windy lincolnshire-can you all keep an eye out for the little divil flying past anytime soon? ;D
should be about 3,000 ft-trailing a bit of fleece for visibility-
second thoughts-tims the aviator-maybe he should be 'spotter!'

Just seen a greenhouse go by, didnt stop at Gatwick... ;D

Maybe it will end up in southern France, not very cheap thing too lose  ;D (toulouse) :-X

stop that greenhouse!
it might be mine!!!!!

as it happens all is calm on the lincs weather front-as opposed to yesterday when we had hail the size of hens eggs...
well..small hens eggs...
i thought o no!,e seedlinmgs!but it missed every one!
phew!!
kitty ;D

Tolouse  ;D

Kitty   Did you get yer greenhouse thingy up?  Better batten it down gel as a slight breeze is forecast (by Mr M Fish)  :)

 ;Dwell-today it was a 'light fish type breeze'-ahem!-flippin 'ek!
it was' thunderbirds are go'  at our house-shoutin and wailin-get the bricks!pass that rope!!eeeee-we had fun...


sort off :o ::)

anyway-the berhooger is well and truly tied to an 6x8 shed now-if the wind can lift that its welcome to it-save me sorting it out!!! ;D