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Hi all,
Having always wanted a greenhouse, we moved house last year and one of the things that sold the house to me was that it came complete with a greenhouse. It was a done deal. It’s nowt special, 6x6 and I’ve had to replace several panes of glass before the growing season, she’s not in bad nick to be fair but I’ve got the bug and have been shopping for an upgrade ha! Space isn’t an issue which is nice and I am grateful but don’t think my wallet or wife will be when the upgrade goes in during the winter!! We’ll see how this growing season goes before I dive in!
I’m going for either a Rhino or an elite Titan, if anyone has any comments to sway my decision I’d be very interested to hear them.
I love gardening, always have since I was a kid and now I’ve got the kind of garden I can get really stuck into and be proud of, time permitting of course (5 year old daughter takes up most weekends, ballet, swimming etc etc). My other baby now though is my greenhouse!! This year I’ve got 4 indeterminate tomatoes and a host of various different peppers and chillis which considering it’s my first year are all doing amazingly well. All the seeds (apart from 2 seedlings were purchased from garden centres more recently) were sown on a miserable Sunday afternoon at the end of Feb and grown in a disused fish tank which proved to be a very proficient grow cabinet for seedlings. They’re all out in the greenhouse now and I’m really chuffed with the progress, fingers crossed for bumper crops this year!
With the new greenhouse I intend on growing a much wider variety, not only edibles, tropical plants/flowers too hopefully. But for now I’ll see whether I can produce anything that’s actually edible.
Most searches that throw up forum results always lead me here. I guess I feel like I’m in safe hands if any advice is required so thought I’d sign up!! Likewise, if there’s anything I can help with I’ll be more than happy to help others out, I’ve watched hundreds of hours of YouTube videos on fruit and veg production so do feel like a pro without even having produced a single fruit hahaha!!
Dan
Having always wanted a greenhouse, we moved house last year and one of the things that sold the house to me was that it came complete with a greenhouse. It was a done deal. It’s nowt special, 6x6 and I’ve had to replace several panes of glass before the growing season, she’s not in bad nick to be fair but I’ve got the bug and have been shopping for an upgrade ha! Space isn’t an issue which is nice and I am grateful but don’t think my wallet or wife will be when the upgrade goes in during the winter!! We’ll see how this growing season goes before I dive in!
I’m going for either a Rhino or an elite Titan, if anyone has any comments to sway my decision I’d be very interested to hear them.
I love gardening, always have since I was a kid and now I’ve got the kind of garden I can get really stuck into and be proud of, time permitting of course (5 year old daughter takes up most weekends, ballet, swimming etc etc). My other baby now though is my greenhouse!! This year I’ve got 4 indeterminate tomatoes and a host of various different peppers and chillis which considering it’s my first year are all doing amazingly well. All the seeds (apart from 2 seedlings were purchased from garden centres more recently) were sown on a miserable Sunday afternoon at the end of Feb and grown in a disused fish tank which proved to be a very proficient grow cabinet for seedlings. They’re all out in the greenhouse now and I’m really chuffed with the progress, fingers crossed for bumper crops this year!
With the new greenhouse I intend on growing a much wider variety, not only edibles, tropical plants/flowers too hopefully. But for now I’ll see whether I can produce anything that’s actually edible.
Most searches that throw up forum results always lead me here. I guess I feel like I’m in safe hands if any advice is required so thought I’d sign up!! Likewise, if there’s anything I can help with I’ll be more than happy to help others out, I’ve watched hundreds of hours of YouTube videos on fruit and veg production so do feel like a pro without even having produced a single fruit hahaha!!
Dan
everyone's really friendly and helpful here, I'm sure you'll get plenty of helpful advice and ideas if you should ever need it. I've been container gardening myself for a while and absorbing all YouTube has to offer (growing up on a permiculture smallholding must've rubbed off) and just got into an allotment this week past so it's like getting the bug all over again. My eldests the same age as your daughter and loves all things green and growing. Does yours have any interest yet?
. The best option would be to ignore me 
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