Putting up a greenhouse

[llamalady]

Hi everyone.
I'm new to this .... I just signed up today ..... and wondered if anyone could help with my dilemma. I have a greenhouse that has been sat in my shed in it's boxes for a couple of years and I'm now hoping to get it put up and start growing things in it. Do I dig out the turf in an 8'x6' patch and put down weed reducing membrane and then put down either slabs or gravel or can I just put the slabs on top of the grass? I know it's a basic question but I'm not really sure where to start. I'm really looking forward to getting started

[chris]

Hello, welcome to the vine!

You can do either really.. it'll need to go on a frame if it's going on the grass - it depends if you want to grow in the borders of your greenhouse (you'd want a path up of some sort other way). The grass will die off from scorch if just left in there.

I used gravel and paving slabs in mine, over stablising membrane:



I used the grass frame legs, in plant pots and then filled with postfix:



et volia:

[Bigmallly]

Welcome to the vine,mine didn't have a base & being so tall I fastened mine to a breeze block base as I needed the extra height. Like Chris said, you could use one or both borders for plants with paving slabs down the middle. If using gravel, I would play safe & put something underneath it.

[Bren In Pots]

Mine didn't have a base so we laid breeze blocks on concrete footings then fixed tanalised laths to the blocks finally the greenhouse was screwed on top.

[pauco]

Hi llamalady, welcome to the Vine. Looks like you got some good advice, so good luck with your G/H.

paul.

[llamalady]

Thank you all for the advice .... the pictures were particularly useful and I now can't wait to get started