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Onions and Carrots… The Greenhouse… |
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This is where all of the action's going to happen this year… I got the greenhouse to thwart the slugs attempts to eat all of my delicate produce. I was lucky to get the greenhouse as I found out that the second hand/free to dismantler greenhouse market is a cut-throat one. 5 minutes after the advert for my greenhouse was printed I phoned up but got no answer. I left several messages during the day and I received a return call to tell me that someone had beaten me to it. So I was then back in the market - checking the press and e-bay (not the cheapest place to look for greenhouses). In a fortunate turn of luck a few days later I received a call to tell me that the person didn't actually want the greenhouse as they thought it was too big. Now I ask you - given the state of the second hand greenhouse market - how can a free greenhouse be too big? Surely a free greenhouse could be moved on for profit at least? So I got my greenhouse and it took me a few days to put it back up at the bottom of the plot - but it was well worth the effort and I've since built a bed in one side of the greenhouse and I've somewhat crowded it with courgettes (my first batch - planted outside - lasted 3 days), a cucumber, a load of tomatoes, a pepper and some spare runner beans. |
I shouldn't complain and I'm the grateful owner of a free 8' x 6' greenhouse but there is a problem. It's one of these greenhouses with curves. The curves are right about the point where I'd put a gutter. Now my neighbour has suggested that I could with a bit of effort 'rig something up' but I think it's low priority at the moment. |
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Contact Phillwin@hotmail.com |
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