Chapter 5: The Greenhouse
Need a Greenhouse
I decided that we needed a greenhouse because it will coincide with our gardening plans. I wanted to grow most of my plants from seeds after a recent visit to my local garden centre. They had a huge selection of seeds and bulbs and so i knew that was the path i wanted to take. I saw a few programmes on Youtube and i was hooked on the idea. My local garden centre is called SQUIRES and i started to take regular visits looking around and looking at how the plants would look when fully grown. I thought i will soon have them displayed in my garden. By the way it is cheaper buying the seeds than it is to buy the full grown plant. I bought some in advance ,Tomato,Marygold, Aster and snapdragons.
Decide To Buy
We have now moved half way into September and i started looking on line at various greenhouses. There are the solid wooden structures with real glass or the aliminum type with polycarbon plastic panes. They ranged from several hundred pounds stirling down to about £100. We decided on the aluminum type. We saw one on Ebay and decided it looked okay. I had to measure the part of the garden where it was going and to analyse how the other plans would fit in. We wanted to be 6ft by 6ft at the base and in the centre of the tiered section. The Ebay greenhouse came in several sizes and 6ft by 6ft was perfect, total price £140.00, so we ordered it and it would take about a week to deliver
Keeping Tidy
So for the next several days we set about the task of keeping the garden tidy, general weeding and and keeping the lawn mowed. It is surprising how fast weeds grow. You can dif them out with a hoe or use a general weed killer. We started to introduce some various plants to the garden. These were some small shrubs of various kinds but still in thier infant stage.On the left side if the garden we started an heather patch between the lawn and the tiered section. They are cheap to buy and can bring a cirtain charm to any garden.
