Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel

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Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« on: September 11, 2013, 18:49 »
I cannot belieeeeve that there isn't a sticky thread for pictures of peoples greenhouses and polytunnels (both internal photos of crops and external photos of structures). I am looking at investing in one this winter and would love to look at photos of other's for inspiration.

Maybe if there is enough contribution, some kindly Mod may sticky it!

Post away!  8)

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2013, 22:41 »
We got ours in 2006 for £60.  I should have been 30ft long, but OH made it 24.  He didn't want it coming any further into the garden.

polythene needs replacing now though, as it is around 12 years old and very tatty.

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2013, 09:31 »
What a great idea must find my camera....
I'm lost without my SatNav.

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2013, 09:40 »
My greenhouse picture. Opps she will kill me if she finds out.
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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2013, 10:54 »
Propagation greenhouse:



Box (back) and Lavender (right) that year



Lavender growing on ...



Box growing on ...

Cropping house:



Sweet corn and Tomatoes (Peppers, Aubergines and Melons further to the right)



Chard and over wintering hedge plants grown from seedlings



Changing the soil ...

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2013, 12:09 »
Lovely - but I think your 2 greenhouses would cover my whole allotment   :lol:

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2013, 13:55 »
Wow, Kristen! that's a lot of greenhouse!

Here's my 6x8 lean-to and the annexe in the garden






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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2013, 14:11 »
Lovely - but I think your 2 greenhouses would cover my whole allotment

 :lol: But I don't believe you, I think you have a proper sized allotment :)

12' x 10' was the first one, off eBay, for £200 IIRC.  Was planning to get a plastic tunnel for cropping and then a 30' x 10' came up on eBay for £400 and I decided that would be less maintenance than a tunnel.

Long wait to get one on eBay of right-size and close-enough to home though.  But I read of many people blagging one for free off a neighbour, or Freecycle, so worth being on the lookout. I expect many/most? allotments don't allow glass though.

Kristen! that's a lot of greenhouse!

Big garden, limited budget, do a lot of our own propagation for "features" we want. I take cuttings, or grow on from seedlings, about 1,000 a year ... we want Box edging, and parterre, and maze-like hedging ... costs too much to buy in decent sized plants in those numbers. I also grow a lot from seed - at least another 1,000 plants a year - to stock the garden with, or to grow as Annuals to fill in gaps until young perennials are big enough to take over.

Here's some Lavender which started out as less than 20p each from van Meuwan



Got a bit carried away this year (or maybe need to be carried off!) as this is what the terrace looks like.  I have a very long suffering wife :)


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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2013, 14:27 »
Kristen - that's not a garden!  That's a National Trust Property Garden  Wow.  Is that Monty I see coming round the corner? 

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2013, 14:39 »
Mrs K and I garden - rather than playing golf or somesuch. Its just our choice, and passion of course.

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2013, 14:45 »
I'm just jealous Kristen that's all - of the size and the time that you invest in it.  A credit to you both.

By way of comparison, here is my postage stamp garden together with my raised bed and 6x4 greenhouse.  It may be small but it has lovely views and is south facing.  It's all I have time for anyway as I work full time.  This photo was taken last week when they were cutting the wheat and it started to 'snow' dust!

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2013, 14:53 »
I'm just jealous Kristen that's all - of the size and the time that you invest in it.  A credit to you both.

Thanks :)

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It may be small but it has lovely views and is south facing

I've seen some amazing small gardens over the years - some nice surprises when we get the local "Our Town In Bloom" once every few years ...  I think if I had a small garden, and no kids needing a football pitch!, it would have to be crammed full jungle-like.  Although time was when I thought that just having a greenhouse with a collection of something unusual would do me ... that was in the days when heating a greenhouse didn't cost an arm and both legs :(
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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2013, 15:10 »
Lovely - but I think your 2 greenhouses would cover my whole allotment

 :lol: But I don't believe you, I think you have a proper sized allotment :)

Actually I only have what the local council like to call a half plot 30 x 25ft   :wacko: and that includes a small hedge on one side  ::) 
so your greenhouses would cover a good lump of it  :lol:

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2013, 15:52 »
I only have what the local council like to call a half plot 30 x 25ft

30 feet presumably, rather than metres!  Sounds jolly mean :(  Average size for a full plot is 250 sq.m. I think? which would make yours slightly bigger than a 1/4 sized plot.   I am guessing that your Council calls them "Designer Plots"?  :D

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Re: Pictures of your Greenhouse / Polytunnel
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2013, 16:01 »
Oooooh Kristen, what a beautiful garden!  No wonder you are so proud of your efforts!  :)



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