Help with overgrown greenhouse.

TallingtonGirl

Hello All, thought i'd put a little update on here for you. Spent all day saturday working on the greenhouse. Very pleased with the results, ready for sowing some seeds as soon as the staging comes.

RAS

Looks great.

I would be very tempted to encourage the weed seeds to grow now and keep hoeing them out at this stage in the year; should be warm enough to get most of them going.

Mojisola

RAS wrote: »

I would be very tempted to encourage the weed seeds to grow now and keep hoeing them out at this stage in the year; should be warm enough to get most of them going.

I second this.

Also, it looks as if some of the grass was couch grass so you're going to have that regrowing from every tiny bit of root left in the soil. If you're happy to use weedkillers, a direct application of a systemic weedkiller like glyphosate as soon as you see the shoots will deal with the problem.

TallingtonGirl

I am putting a supposedly 'weed proof' sheet over the soil and then covering that with gravel. I'm not going to be growing anything directly in the ground. If any weeds still come up, I'll spray weed killer on them. Hopefully that will be enough.

themull1

I like your dog - i used to have a Cavalier King Charles spaniel years ago.! I know nothing about greenhouses, other than a stray cat sleeps in my mams!!

Sally_A

For the first year or two, I'd grow tomatoes/cuces/aubs/peppers in buckets, just to see what weeds are still dormant in the soil.


In fact, if truth be known, I'd probably pave the whole lot. Growing in buckets enables you to put fresh soil in every year.


In a colder greenhouse, I would bury the buckets (with a drainage well underneath, padded out by old polystyrene packaging or similar), so the warmth gets into the roots from the ground, but still gives me the chance to put fresh soil/manure for each plant, and less chance of picking up nasties.