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Although I have been gardening for many years, I am only now, about to buy my first greenhouse.  The choice is bewildering!  Should it be wood or metal, set on bricks or the ground.  I will mainly use it for cuttings and overwintering and growing

Hello everybody, my name is Marco and I am very happy to be part of this gardeners community. I am ready to build my greenhouse, but I am still thinking about the most suitable irrigation method to use. The greenhouse is very small, about 2.5x2

Well, thank goodness for greenhouses. I've practically been living in mine this month. It's been far too chilly to even think about sowing outside, and besides, I don't do frozen fingers.Under glass, though, it's all lovely and cosy, and I potter

If you set your greenhouse on slabs, make sure the upper surface isn't 'riven' as that lets water drain in whenever it rains!

It can be much trickier changing the soil in a greenhouse trench than in a garden border. I’m lucky to have trenches with brick bases, but my heart goes out to anyone with borders glazed to the base. It's so easy to break panes when excavating soil

Hi, We've had terrible gales that have smashed a few of the glass panes in my greenhouse. I was wondering if it would be ok to replace these with acrylic or polycarbonate rather than glass. I know it won't look as nice as all glass but does anyone

ive just purchased a strelitzia for my patio, i over winter cordylines, bananas and washingtonias in my greenhouse, which is heated with a 4ft tube heater,, will these strelitzia plants come through with such minimul heat? What is the minimum

Hello folks, may I ask what else other than tomatoes and cucumbers is good to grow in a greenhouse? It's my first year as a proud owner of one. Can I grow onions and garlic in them? Thanking you for any tips! You can grow your onions and garlic

sally, its a busy time but well worth it, i don,t have a green house, but i do have a conservatory that doubles up as a greenhouse from february to may, i am a novice, so far tho, i have panzy cosmos, nasturtion, african daisy popping upwhen i see

I am going to place a 6'x4' greenhouse on a paving stone base. The greenhouse has a metal base but how do I secure the base to the paving slabs so that it does not move? Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Is this on existing paving?  If so, you