[Ruth Cross]

After a long weekend down the allotment I thought I would take a few pics to show my progress!

Before:

And Now!!

We scavanged an old glazed 'office pod' which will serve as a greenhouse and so managed to get most of up (minus door and roof) by end of Sunday but didn't get any pics as it pitch black by the time we left. Although you can see where we have started to dig the trench footings:

David the OH, also put up the guttering and connected the water butts.
What would I do without him...........Less washing and ironing thats what

[wildeone]

wow well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[muntjac]

wow ,,,, ur fella ...... :roll: .... does werk hard.....................


   

[gobs]

Good job, Ruth, what's the soil like? It seems a very nice color in the pictures.

[Ruth Cross]

Good job, Ruth, what's the soil like? It seems a very nice color in the pictures.

Lovely loam!! Although it was quite wet at the weekend so we got covered in mud, but it saves using moisturiser

[gobs]

Lucky devil, you.

[Ruth Cross]

wow ,,,, ur fella ...... :roll: .... does werk hard.....................


   

Actually making coffee, emptying the wheel barrow and taking pictures is hard work too. I must admit I wouldn't be even half done without him. Luckily he's one of those people that can't sit still, so I give him a spade and away he goes!!!!

[muntjac]

true working man  ,,,, coffee first    

[frazzy]

wow is it the same plot . brilliant work guys.  *Big Thumbs Up*

[Selkie]

wow ruth, what a transformation!! you both should be very proud of yourselves --- WELL DONE!

[Ruth Cross]

We are very proud, hence posting the pics on here. It has just started to pour down here as well so hopefully my water butts will be filling up too??

The recent post 'am I weird' has got me thinking about different ways to heat the greenhouse. As I'm putting the greenhouse up at the moment I think now is the best time to set it up.

Unfortunately my compost bin is huge so would take up too much space inside. So I was thinking of perhaps putting the compost bin right next to it, make a hole in the lid and pipe the hot air from the bin into the greenhouse? All I want is enough heat to keep the frost off.

or

Making a heat sump. David is really keen on this and we've probably got enough bits around to do it for free. We got the idea from 'its not easy going green'

Anyone got any comments/ideas? Greenhouse is 2m x 1.75m

[WG.]

A (closed) unheated greenhouse in Devon is very very unlikely to get frost inside.

[stands back and waits for everyone to disagree]

[Ruth Cross]

Your right it shouldn't freeze, but Crediton does tend to be a bit of a frost pocket as its quite low into the valley. The allotment is quite exposed so I would rather be prepared just in case and as its my first winter at the allotment I'm not sure how bad it will be :?

[WG.]

What will you have in the greenhouse overwinter (or is it for seedlings in the New Year)?

[Ruth Cross]

Seedlings for the new year at the moment. But I will probably want to overwinter various stuff next year when I've 'got going' on the plot.