Thank you scarlet. 
I think I saw NT doIng it in one of their Devon properties a good few years ago except they tied the horizontals to a cane and kept them in pots rather than the ground. I haven’t buried the horizontals as I don’t want to water the beds only the pots. I find it easier to measure volume this way so I don’t overwater, plus I don’t want to create too much humidity through evaporation inside the greenhouse.
My greenhouse regime might border on the mad to be fair, they get annual scrubs with a caravan hose and brush set, every 3 to 4 years I strip all the glass out so I can clean the joints replace any worn or rusty clips, steam clean the frame, then I get the spirit level out so I can pack any settlement.
I change the soil in my greenhouse beds annually, that greenhouse had a little over a metric tonne of mixed compost and manure this year. The spoil, top dresses my veg beds and borders, so nothing goes to waste. I also had to lift and relay the slabs in June as ants had moved in by the door. I’ll need to concrete the internal border in over the winter, because I stand on it to tie in the corner canes, and a couple of blocks have moved a little.
OH said I’m mad as I’ll happily clean the greenhouse glass but she has to get somebody in to do the house!! It makes perfect sense to me, the house doesn’t feed me, it keeps me warm. 
I think I saw NT doIng it in one of their Devon properties a good few years ago except they tied the horizontals to a cane and kept them in pots rather than the ground. I haven’t buried the horizontals as I don’t want to water the beds only the pots. I find it easier to measure volume this way so I don’t overwater, plus I don’t want to create too much humidity through evaporation inside the greenhouse.
My greenhouse regime might border on the mad to be fair, they get annual scrubs with a caravan hose and brush set, every 3 to 4 years I strip all the glass out so I can clean the joints replace any worn or rusty clips, steam clean the frame, then I get the spirit level out so I can pack any settlement.
I change the soil in my greenhouse beds annually, that greenhouse had a little over a metric tonne of mixed compost and manure this year. The spoil, top dresses my veg beds and borders, so nothing goes to waste. I also had to lift and relay the slabs in June as ants had moved in by the door. I’ll need to concrete the internal border in over the winter, because I stand on it to tie in the corner canes, and a couple of blocks have moved a little.
OH said I’m mad as I’ll happily clean the greenhouse glass but she has to get somebody in to do the house!!
It makes perfect sense to me, the house doesn’t feed me, it keeps me warm.
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