Introducing myself (and a little advice)
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:32 am
Hello all!
Just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Mel from Manchester,44 and a complete newbie to all this growing malarkey but enjoying every second so far.
Started in 2014 when I got hubby to build me a herb garden out of an old pallet from work and that progressed to last year getting him to build me a small raised bed for veggies (only 8 x 2 ft) but big enough for me to get veggies for us.
We had quite a successful year (well I thought it was ) I got cauliflowers, cabbage, potatoes, parsnips, carrots and in my 2 pop up greenhouses I got a very productive tomato plant, chilli and pepper plants, although the pepper plant did get a lot of whitefly attacks
I am now awaiting the delivery of my greenhouse (again only a small one 6 x 3) but for the time being I have converted one of the bedrooms in the house into a mini growing room and have just been sowing all my seeds - going the whole hog this year and am doing a variety of veggies again, bought a veg trug for salads, cucumber, tomato and chilli in the greenhouse, and have sown loads of flower seeds for the garden and hanging baskets.
So I suppose you could say the bug has well and truly bitten me!
So now you all know me, thanks for reading this far if you have, the advice I am after is heating the greenhouse???? There will be no electric in in time for this spring so am gong to have to buy a small battery/oil/paraffin heater and am looking for some advice from you seasoned growers. Its a traditional wooden greenhouse (the idea being, if I dont take to it we can convert it to a shed ) and I have heard that the paraffin heaters cause a lot of condensation, it does have a roof vent and I will be buying an automatic opener for it, but what would you suggest is the best way to heat it so I can transfer the seeds and seedlings into it and reclaim my front bedroom.
Just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Mel from Manchester,44 and a complete newbie to all this growing malarkey but enjoying every second so far.
Started in 2014 when I got hubby to build me a herb garden out of an old pallet from work and that progressed to last year getting him to build me a small raised bed for veggies (only 8 x 2 ft) but big enough for me to get veggies for us.
We had quite a successful year (well I thought it was ) I got cauliflowers, cabbage, potatoes, parsnips, carrots and in my 2 pop up greenhouses I got a very productive tomato plant, chilli and pepper plants, although the pepper plant did get a lot of whitefly attacks
I am now awaiting the delivery of my greenhouse (again only a small one 6 x 3) but for the time being I have converted one of the bedrooms in the house into a mini growing room and have just been sowing all my seeds - going the whole hog this year and am doing a variety of veggies again, bought a veg trug for salads, cucumber, tomato and chilli in the greenhouse, and have sown loads of flower seeds for the garden and hanging baskets.
So I suppose you could say the bug has well and truly bitten me!
So now you all know me, thanks for reading this far if you have, the advice I am after is heating the greenhouse???? There will be no electric in in time for this spring so am gong to have to buy a small battery/oil/paraffin heater and am looking for some advice from you seasoned growers. Its a traditional wooden greenhouse (the idea being, if I dont take to it we can convert it to a shed ) and I have heard that the paraffin heaters cause a lot of condensation, it does have a roof vent and I will be buying an automatic opener for it, but what would you suggest is the best way to heat it so I can transfer the seeds and seedlings into it and reclaim my front bedroom.