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Old 03-05-2004, 11:08 PM
Kay Easton
 
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Default Shaded greenhouse

In article , Shirl terter67@best
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Hello

I have only one place that I can put a greenhouse in my garden, however its
in the shade for most of the time. I live in the midlands and its been
lovely and sunny today, however I think I had about half an hour the whole
day when the sun actually managed to shine onto the greenhouse :-/

Im hoping this will change as the sun gets higher in the sky but is it
possible to get good growth in shaded conditions or should I just give it
up? I've got tomatoes, lettuce, spring onions etc in there as from
Saturday. I had the plants growing nicely in my house until then but
decided that the greenhouse must be better than the limited sun that comes
in through a window.

I dont have anywhere outside the greenhouse to plant my veggies either so
its shady greenhouse or back to buying from Tesco.


I wouldn't worry too much. What you have got is the shelter and warmth
of indoors (almost ;-) ) combined with the light levels of outdoors.
Most people find they have to shade their greenhouse in the summer to
avoid the temperature going sky high - you at least won't have that
bother!

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Kay Easton

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