Greenhouses

Index

• Page 1 Building the greenhouses (this page)
  • Top – purchase of Propagation greenhouse on eBay 12′ x 10′
  • Purchase of second Cropping greenhouse on eBay 30′ x 10′ May’07
  • Build of Cropping House May’07
• Page 2 2008 Season
  • Planting of Cropping House Jun’08
• Page 3 2009 Season
  • Lay block floor and build Propagation & Planting House Oct’08
  • Replace soil in Cropping House Feb’09
  • Early vegetable plants pricked out Mar’09
  • Salad veg planted May’09

June 2006

I bought an Eden 10′ x 8′ back in the early ’70s when I was about 15 and had started to become interested in gardening; it took all my pocket money, and I mourned the fact that I couldn’t afford the bigger 12′ x 10′ model.

Well, in 2006 I saw an Eden 12′ x 10′ on eBay and I had to have it! I drove up to Sheffield to collect it with Tom. I reckon it was erected the same day my original 10′ x 8′ was … but no matter, it was intact.

December 2006

I applied Roundup to the area where the greenhouse would be, and also the surrounding area for the vegetable patch

May 2007

Oh dear! A 30′ x 10′ Eden greenhouse came up on eBay. Tom and I set off to Gatwick to pick it up. I had been planning to have a Plastic Tunnel for “cropping”, but a proper glasshouse is going to be better.

There is a bit more “stuff” in this one, but Tom and I manage to get it in the back of the Bus.

May 2007

Dug the trench for the footings

June 2007

and ordered some bricks, sand, cement …

July 2007

and (not wanting to appear too keen!) laid the bricks

October 2007

and (pace is not exactly hotting up!) constructed the frame

April 2008

and (home straight now!) glazing underway

I’m really only after “cropping” this year, so I will leave glazing the propagation / house plant house as a Winter job.

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