Yes, I had it all wrapped in polythene sheet through winter, primarily so the timberwork did not get soaked, but it warmed up nicely in the sun, so I started using it .
What you can see in there is a large seed tray full of sweet pea seedlings at the far end and nearest is a mix.... Something like a lemon thyme I found while digging over, put it into 3 pots and its doing well. Some Yucca new growth taken from a neighbours plant, just sat in a pot of water and willing it to root. Some overwintered spring onions that are just getting going for this season, and a hyacinth that died off before Christmas but is showing a gloriously healthy flower bud coming through..............Whats not in there now are the cauliflower, carrot, white onion, lettuce and gallardia that I sowed 2 months ago.......They took off really well and are now in another cold greenhouse..........
Its really nice having a proper little greenhouse staging, and its been really handy for standing on whilst constructing the greenhouse around it.
Got some more roof on today, even though it was raining, all going to plan so far and rest of the roof should be on this weekend..Then the windows and doors....
Then getting a waterproof double socket and some bulkhead lights on the wall...........
And a set of extension speaker leads from the workshop sound system so I can have radio 4 and music in there. Not many greenhouses will have a 400 watt amp in to rattle the windows..
I have been chopping and changing as I go with the design...I have made changes to the front, and have been busy on a lathe making a finial as a finishing touch. If you look carefully at the latest pics you can see on the block above the doorway right in the middle, a small roundel. and a matching one on the bottom centre of the half round window above the inner stable door. These roundels were obtained years ago ( 25?) when we went to look at the house that my wife was born in, which was due to be demolished.... So I climbed a drainpipe and used my penknife to get these roundels from the trim around the bay window.................They have been sat in a drawer in the workshop since then but I knew I would use them one day. Built in memories..........
I have 3 old stone sinks i the garden waiting for a final position and I might use them in the greenhouse somehow.......I thought of flowing water from a pump in the rainwater barrel so I could grow watercress properly. Be good for humidity as well. I say water barrel because "Butt" sounds like an oversize American bottom.
Rest of the roof tomorrow I hope, just hope it doesn`t rain as much.