plastic mini greenhouse?

wallbash

You should have watched tonight's Gardening programe on BBC2.

Make a very large cold frame with a timber base, plastic water pipe and plastic.

Have you got BBCi Player?

webwalker

I got a mini greenhouse, I put it in my regular greenhouse and just use it as cheap staging most of the time, as my greenhouse is unheated I put sensitive plants inside the greenhouse in the greenhouse if you see what I mean. Anyway enough drivel, garden fleece is a good way of extending the growing period, most plants depend on a certain length of daylight to set them away not just heat and to be honest I can't say that a mini greenhouse has much advantage over garden fleece for everyday plants and vegetables.

With regard to the cloche/cold frame on GW I already have similar idea in my garden but with garden fleece instead of plastic, no need to lift it up to ventilate it or to water it.

phizzimum

wallbash wrote: »

You should have watched tonight's Gardening programe on BBC2.

Make a very large cold frame with a timber base, plastic water pipe and plastic.

Have you got BBCi Player?

thanks, I'll check that out

Primrose

I've got one of these mini greenhouses and they're really useful for germinating veggies and plants. But as other people have told you, they are extremely vulnerable to the wind. The first year I had mine, a gust of wind blew it over when it was crammed full of seedlings on every shelf. After that, I weighed it down by putting buckets of water on the bottom shelf but it still swayed alarmingly. This year, we put it right against the house wall which catches the sun for half the day, put two wall bolts into the house brickwork about two thirds of the way up its height and used these as anchor points to tread through a very long nylon luggage strap which holds it firmly in place. I've pierced two small Benecol containers over the wall boltshooks to stop the strap easing itself out if there's any wind friction and this has worked very well and held it secure, even in a strong gale. The plastic covers don't last too long and can become very brittle with frost. If you want to keep the cover on through the winter, it might be worth investing in a large length of garden fleece to cover over the plastic. This will also be useful in hot sunshine to prevent your young seedlings become scorched.