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Slowly started building the greenhouse foundation and some wall parts just inbetween the rainfall and stormy days. Really keeping my fingers crossed for a dry weekend so I can finish the job! The only thing left to do is lifting up the greenhouse, putting it onto the already built foundation and shooting some bolts and nuts in it. We're close to a new season here!

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Gosh Elmigo, you're doing really well, especially with the current wet weather presenting such a challenge. Are you enlisting the help of your neighbours to get it moved?
I always think one of the nicest things about having a greenhouse is being able to be outside, yet in the dry and able to get in with certain chores while you listen to the rain pouring down on the window panes !

Is that a guttering on it? Will Yiu have space for a small water butt nearby to collect water? It,s surprising how much you use to keep your seedlings and plants thriving alive in really hot or dry weather.
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Yes this one has two gutters and yesterday when building it I was thinking about the same thing! Have to find a way to connect some watering system to those gutters, which is going to be quite a challenge... Any suggestions would be appreciated! I'll be getting help from someone in my family moving it to the foundation.
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Nice size!
I make do with a tiny thing which is smaller than a sentry box but it will do for me.
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Morning Elmigo, don't the company you bought it off, do a gutter kit for it...just a thought.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

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Just started snowing, though it looks like it could change to sleet .
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oldherbaceous wrote:Morning Elmigo, don't the company you bought it off, do a gutter kit for it...just a thought.

Haven't found it yet, thanks for the reminder!
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fabulouse greenhouse Elmigo! happy growing :)
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Know you are tight on space how about putting water butt underground them slab on top for pots or if you don't fancy digging make wooden frame to fit slab. Use bilge pump attached to hose pipe for getting water out.
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Second wettest February since records began in the UK.#
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26367160

And for the winter...
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I think here in Berkhamsted we have had twice the average.
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Looking good Elmigo!
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In spite off waking up to light snow the last three mornings, the sowing has started: broad beans, sweet peppers and night-scented stock, all under cover of course.
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If I'd had the energy and the space I could have had a free swimming pool in our garden by now ! Or at least a very large pond!
Makes you wonder whether, instead of fitting solar panels on all new properties, builders shouldn't be installing massive underground water storage tanks as provision against long summer droughts.
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I totally agree! Why not save water during winter for drought during summer? It's perfect.
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One of the pros of being officially registered as a business is buying stuff for wholesale prices. I just ordered a large amount of seed packs from many different vegetables for the store and made sure to purchase a little extra for the garden aswell :mrgreen:

By the weather forecast in the Netherlands it looks like positioning the greenhouse has to wait untill after this weekend!

Yes... Yesterday I cleaned a sweet pointy pepper so Primrose, I guess we're on the same team now! I'm drying those and then sowing them together with the other peppers :mrgreen:

The first tiny dots of kiwano are showing up above the ground. Very soon, about two days after sowing!
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