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Thursday, November 27, 2008

More Greenhouse Advice

First and foremost – if you want to buy a greenhouse and install it yourself, don’t pick November as the month to do it. There are three reasons for this:

You will have to dodge rain, hail, sleet and snow to get out there to do it, and once out there you will slip and slide around on mud and frost, causing potential damage to the greenhouse and actual damage to bits of yourself.

You will find that whatever form of greenhouse you’ve gone for, it is impossible to tighten nuts, fit tiny fiddly fixings and install large fragile panes of glass or large flyaway panes of plastic, in November winds.

Your marriage will be begin to crack under the strain, even if the greenhouse glazing doesn’t.

I think July is probably a good time to put up a greenhouse – that way, even if it is fiddly, time-consuming and frustrating work, you’re out in the fresh air in the lovely weather and you have long hours of daylight to work in.

Putting in sliding doors by torchlight in a force nine gale is not fun. Trust me. I know. The only thing that’s keeping me going is the idea that one day next year my greenhouse will be filled with the aromas of heirloom tomatoes and orchid blossoms – if we ever get it finished, that is!

Labels: assembling a greenhouse, greenhouse, greenhouse installation

The All Seasons Gardener at 4:21 AM

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