Cost saving tips for heating greenhouse?

[scared55]

would you like to see a foto of what your missing

Can it be our guilty secret?

KK

[terrier]

How about getting right back to the old ways, heat your greenhouse with fresh horse muck. Fill up your empty compost bags with it and you've got ready made storeage heaters. Come summer, you've got ready made equicompost.

[Snadger]

How about getting right back to the old ways, heat your greenhouse with fresh horse muck. Fill up your empty compost bags with it and you've got ready made storeage heaters. Come summer, you've got ready made equicompost.

Couldn't put up with the condensation problems and getting brayed over the head with a rolling pin each night because I smell like a cowbyre/stable!

[kentvegplot]

I've used polystyrene boxes (you can get them from fishmongers, some butchers) and stood some of the small plants in there as extra insultation for the winter. A couple of layers of fleece on top provides a cosy home.

Also saved any polystyrene packing sheets from parcels and lined the shelves of the metal staging.

I find it helps to move plants as high up as possible, to get lots of light and get them away from the coldest part of the house. Whole house gets bubble wrapped (it's only small).

For the coldest nights, using a small paraffin heater - although it seems to be getting harder to find places that sell paraffin, garden centres seem to charge a lot for it.

[nick the grief]

G'wan then

Can it be our guilty secret?

KK

Here you go what your missing

[Snadger]

For the coldest nights, using a small paraffin heater - although it seems to be getting harder to find places that sell paraffin, garden centres seem to charge a lot for it.

I get mine from the local allotment shop............about half the price that you pay in the shops, just bring your own container!

[kentvegplot]

Thanks Snadger, good idea. Now to track down an allotment shop....