Let's see inside 2021/22/23/24

I've been very pleased with the amount of salad leaves that have grown over winter. 

I don't think people realise how productive a greenhouse can be over winter until they've tried it themselves.

Another thing If a green house isn’t used for growing it soon turns into a dumping ground.

Another thing If a green house isn’t used for growing it soon turns into a dumping ground.

That's why i didn't show you photos of the other GHs - although one is used to propagation - so is full of pots and compost and the other one has overwintering houseplants. Both look a mess.

This is GH1. I've almost finished moving all of the soil out of the "beds" into these 30ltr pots. My plan for this year is to grow in these pots, instead of the open-bottomed "ring culture" pots I've used for the last 20+ years. 



GH2 has one remaining "bed" on the left. I have some more pots on order for this side. 


I've been very pleased with the amount of salad leaves that have grown over winter. Several pots have potatoes in and they're looking healthy. Most of the pots have been sown with something - carrots, beetroot, peas, often a couple of different things as a fail-safe. 

I'm having a rethink about how I use the garden..........but more on that later.

I lik that roundish supporting thingy in the last photo. No point asking where you got is it is there? 

^^^ Its a kitchen saucepan stand - FREE of course. I've used it for supporting peas/cucumbers but my initial idea was for strawberry pots on each level.

I thought it was one of those American style tomato supports. Strawberries would be good.

I like your greenhouses Veggie! They look so productive I will want you guys to prod me to remind me to sow in the autumn too, so I can test out how far I can push my tunnels here in the winter. That'll be an experiment or two!

I like your greenhouses Veggie! They look so productive I will want you guys to prod me to remind me to sow in the autumn too, so I can test out how far I can push my tunnels here in the winter. That'll be an experiment or two!

This guy doesn't seem to upload anymore, but he grows in the Chicago area, which gets fairly cold,  and shows how one and two layers of cover affects air temperature during winter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZn5UBHkjE

I think you can also double skin polytunnels, potentially making three layers of cover if you add smaller hoop houses inside.

   

First flower on the Bijou mangetout in GH2. 

First flower on the Bijou mangetout in GH2. 

You do this just to annoy 

I have peas growing, can't remember what but not Bijou because they don't survive the frost even in the gh. I don't have any flowers.