Am very jealous of your 2 greenhouses Kristen - makes mine look even tinier and pokier than it is
Thanks. I'm really pleased with them, particularly as it wasn't exactly a deliberate carefully thought through act.
I bought an Eden 10' x 8' with all my savings when I was about 15. I was really narked, at the time, that I couldn't afford the 12' x 10' - which was the largest they did in that range. (I'm sure my parents must have worried and thought I should have been squandering the money on girls and being out with my mates!)
When we were buying this house (which has a big garden, but had no veg garden nor greenhouse) I had a look on eBay and there was an Eden 12' x 10' - the exact model I have coveted and probably built at exactly the same time as my 10' x 8' was, some 30 years earlier ...
Then the bigger one came up on eBay about when I was thinking of getting a tunnel for cropping
They are both old enough to be of really substantial construction, so have stood the test of time, and were cheap enough not to break the bank.
1. You do need to have that much space available though
2. Buy bigger than you think you need (space permitting) as its easy to fill them.
I hadn't really thought about doing serious propagation to fill the garden until a couple of years ago, but now half of the large greenhouse is filled with plants coming-on, rather than cropping veg, and the small one is jam packed. I have several hundred small cuttings that are ready for potting on and not sure where they are going to do, and there is one more batch which will be ready before Winter (although they can probably await potting on until Spring - although, arguing black-is-white, past experience tells me there won't be time in the Spring and they will languish until June by which time they will be miserable and I will lose a season's good growth as a consequence.).
Best purchase this year was a most propagating bench, that has been remarkable in its effectiveness, but its a purchase cost to make you wince