A Greenhouse For Better Gardening
A greenhouse is very much a luxury item for most gardeners. Not everyone can have one because of restraints on the budget and on the size of the garden. However they can greatly enhance your gardening experience and extend your gowing season by several months.
You can sow your seeds earlier in the season and then be able to grow on tender plants. The greenhouse will also provide you with somewhere to overwinter frost tender plants and during summer you can grow your tomatoes and aubergines that would sulk in a typical UK summer. And when the weather isn’t good you can stay inside your greenhouse and continue gardening in comfort.
But you need to make your greenhouse work to its maximum capacity to get real value out of it. Greenhouses are not just for growing you’ll also need a workplace to pot plants on. If you’ve only got a tiny greenhouse then you may get away with just a potting bench. You can sew and pot on using the bench in spring and store the plant pots underneath during winter.
However, for most people a potting bench is too small and restricting. That’s where wooden greenhouse staging comes in as it come is a whole range of sizes to fit what ever space you have available. The staging can have one or two shelves underneath for storage or even no shelves at all if you want.
If you like to make sure your pots are well ventilated then the greenhouse staging can be slatted or have a solid top if you want a practical work surface. If space is tight then some designs will fold down so that during the height of the growing season you can optimise the space inside your greenhouse.
Being flexible with the insides of your greenhouse will help you get the most out of it. At times you’ll need to cope with a mass of young growing plants and at times it could be almost devoid of living vegetation.
There is nothing better than having a green house all year around and fueling with green power.