Greenhouse saga!!

[mrskp]

Welcome to the Vine Mrskp and I hope you'll come on in more often. You've definately got things to tell us. I'm sure Mandy will be pleased with your greenhouse information. You can't be too far from me. I'm just outside Bearsden.

OOOOOOOOOh ! Posh ! I'm in Hillington on top of the hill ! If I tiptoed, I could probably see you.

I always just try and sneak in without an introduction. Now I've been spotted (and so warmly welcomed), I guess I'd better go in search of the intro threads eh?

[JennieAtkinson]

We got a Norfolk plastic jobby. took us 8 months to put the b*gger together, 8 hrs for the gales to break it apart again

You have my sympathy Two Sheds. I lost my first one as well, six years ago now and still digging the glass up out of the garden!

[jools]

Hi Mandy
I can only reinforce what Mrskp has said (Hi Mrskp!) - get one with bells on if you can afford it. You'll only want to add them later. Mine is a Hercules from the Greenhouse People. It is in fact an Elite Belmont with all the bells on - matching base, strengthened glass, bar capping, more vents than usual, autovents on each vent, louvres - and the extra height is fantastic. It always felt like entering a cave in my old dutch style wooden greenhouse. Now I feel like I'm entering the Centreparcs dome! I'm really, really pleased with it.
Jools

[nick the grief]

Welcome to the Vine Mrskp and I hope you'll come on in more often. You've definately got things to tell us. I'm sure Mandy will be pleased with your greenhouse information. You can't be too far from me. I'm just outside Bearsden.

Isn't that dangerous Alice living in a Bears Den

[seasprout]

And they say it's dangerous to run with a bear behind.

(Sorry I'll get my coat.)

[mandyballantyne]

Hi All,

Thanks for all the advise, my catolouge has just arrived so I will get started.

Good point about the bar capping and auto vents, I am away a lot and my OH would forget to open them for me!

Welcome to Mrs Kip, I was glad to hear your glass did not smash this is something I am worried about.

Can't wait to get it ordered, built and get growing in it!

Mandy

[ogilvie]

OOOOOOOOOh ! Posh ! I'm in Hillington on top of the hill ! If I tiptoed, I could probably see you.

I always just try and sneak in without an introduction. Now I've been spotted (and so warmly welcomed), I guess I'd better go in search of the intro threads eh?

Hi! mrskp. Welcome to the vine and nice to hear your practically a neighbour as well as Alice and Mandy, I'm in East Kilbride. Hope you enjoy yourself as much on here as I do.

Sorry Mandy for hi-jacking your post. Good luck with picking a greenhouse, the biggest thing I've learnt about greenhouses is you never have enough room.

Ogilvie

[mandyballantyne]

Not a problem Ogilvie, I don't see it as high jacking at all. How are things coming along over there?

I can not wait to get out there properly!

Mandy

[Alice]

It's great to have all these new neighbours.

[mrskp]

it's lovely to be here and now i'm joining in, there's even more for me to read when i get in from work.

autovents are something i'm still toying with tbh. we get a lot of wind that springs from nowhere, and i'm worried that i'll go to work in the morning, only to return home to find vents having been blown away during the day.

i might try one on the leeward side (right word, wrong spelling or totally wrong word to start with? - the vent on the other side of the g/h from where the wind whips round) and see how that goes. temps got pretty high in the summer even up here !

I think the panes bounced on the bark chips Mandy, wouldn't like to try them on concrete though !

[mandyballantyne]

Hi Alice, MrsKP,

It is good to have new neighbours, there is Ogilvie and Berr too and more appearing all the time I hope.

Are any of you going to make it to the potato day in Dunblane? It would be nice to meet up.

Mandy

[ogilvie]

We're going to try to get to the potato day. It would be nice to meeting fellow Grapes while we're there.

Ogilvie

[mrskp]

when is it mandy ?

[mandyballantyne]

SaturdAY 3RD march am, I will check with Berr for times etc.

Mandy

[Alice]

Re Potato day - I will be making a big effort to go and would love to meet everybody, but the night before I am going to a 40th birthday party for a younger friend, and I have offered the use of bedrooms in my house for "stayovers". So i don't know when the party will end, when the guests will leave, or what state I will be in. If I don't make it, we definately need to set up something else. Maybe a BBQ here when the sun shines !