On lean to greenhouses again…
buddleia, Building a greenhouse, Cumbria, growing food, Lidl, polycarbonate, Tesco Add comments
I hope to grow food in the greenhouse. In fact, I’ve never given a thought to anything else- what’s that ?flowers? Is it a man thing or just me? When C (my wife) talks about the garden it is like she is describing a different place. Thanks to her I now know a buddleia is called a butterfly bush and have learnt that they are really hard to kill. Our two are taking up space that I have been coveting for a couple of years.
a buddleia- not ours but just as pertinacious
Growing food is only any good, of course, if you eat it. This might seem a bit too obvious for vegetable gardening for beginners but it needs said. Two years ago we had so many courgettes from three little plants that I began dreaming about them. Frightening. Last year it was mouldy tomatoes on our windowsill, put there unripe in a vain attempt to make them last. I need to be more deliberate about it, planning the production, using the greenhouse to prolong the seasonal windows. I really hope it is in a good position for this. Building it on an old stand has the problem that the orientation may not be the best.
The blueprint for the wooden lean to greenhouse is not very comprehensive, being written on the back of a Tesco clubcard envelope, while explaining to No.1 (my 6 year old son) what a ‘plan’ was. In an earlier post I described that I was using reclaimed timber from my next door, now demolished, garage. A new Lidl is taking shape as I write and is an object lesson in determination ( or private enterprise). Irish builders, staying in lodgings, working from seven in the morning until eight at night, never stopping even during the weeks of minus temperatures and snow, building a German supermarket in a small Cumbrian town. The plan shows a pitched roof which I think I will abandon due to limitations in my woodworking repertoire. A single slope down from the existing back wall seems much easier: a balancing act between losing light and having a standing greenhouse after the first strong wind. I haven’t decided on glass yet and, though inclined to real glass, the reading I have done suggests that polycarbonate may be better. It seems it has a longer life now and does not taint or crack. It is also cheaper! I have gone from dimensions that loosely correspond to the golden rectangle ( for beauty, I naively hope). Any advice would be appreciated.
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