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Greenhouse fund

By Pippa Greenwood on 20/11/2007 10:17:17

I splashed out and bought myself a greenhouse, in fact the greenhouse of my dreams a few years ago. A lovely red cedar affair with a brick base and even a brick path and cold-frames off to one side. It was a total luxury and I love it. It has


Weeding songs

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 04/03/2008 10:54:00

. I think they feared being dragged prematurely into middle age. After complex labour negotiations we compromised with playing Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Radio 1.Radios are equally essential for potting shed and greenhouse jobs; pricking out


Sowing seeds - chillies and sweet peppers

By Adam Pasco on 14/04/2008 12:26:00

Despite temperatures in my greenhouse dropping to zero at night but soaring by day, I've just got to get on with more seed sowing. Chillies and sweet peppers are top of my list. Last summer I had an outdoor electric socket installed for the garden


Seed potatoes and mice

By Pippa Greenwood on 06/03/2008 11:29:00

I've only just got around to chitting seed potatoes. Many of this year's spuds were given to me for my birthday by my kids in February. I normally chit them in the greenhouse, but after last year's potato massacre I felt that putting the tubers rose


Achimene - hot water plants

By Adam Pasco on 17/03/2008 11:49:00

, all of which make ideal pot plants for the home, greenhouse or conservatory.Victorian gardeners believed achimene must be watered with tepid rather than cold water, hence their common name of hot water plant. I'm not convinced this is actually


Growing melons

By Adam Pasco on 04/08/2008 11:23:00

I've always assumed melons would be far too difficult or temperamental to grow in the UK, despite the Victorians' success at growing them in heated greenhouses.But a couple of summers ago, I visited the Thompson & Morgan seed trials in Ipswich


The benefits of the sunflower

By Pippa Greenwood on 25/10/2007 10:38:35

, and no doubt the mouse that plagued my greenhouse this year will also have a feast, but at that height the birds should be the main winners!


Beefsteak tomatoes

By Adam Pasco on 07/01/2008 11:04:00

.Beefsteak tomato plants are as robust as any other greenhouse variety, taking up just as much space, but producing a fraction of the total yield you would expect. Yes, individual fruits are bigger, but in my book bigger isn't always better!Rather than producing


Blackbirds and blackberries

By Adam Pasco on 21/07/2008 12:06:00

, brought into the warm and protected environment of my greenhouse to ripen in time for Wimbledon. When I came to harvest them, bowl in hand, the fruits were gone.Now it's the blackberries, which are just starting to ripen and will hopefully provide rich


Tomato blight

By Pippa Greenwood on 09/10/2008 13:11:00

'Hundreds and Thousands', and I was lucky enough to be given a trial pack of seeds. It's a funny variety, with low-growing plants covered with numerous marble-sized fruits. I grew one plant unsuccessfully in the greenhouse and many very successfully


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