"jimmy" wrote in message
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Hi,

This is my first season with a new greenhouse and I am wondering what to
do
with it during the winter. This comes down to the cost of heating it. Does
anyone have any information about (or links to sites with information)
about
the running costs of various electric heaters in the UK. (I am not really
interested in paraffin heaters).

Thanks for any information,

Jim

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If you live up here in the North-west , - forget it
Of course, if you have real money and a regular surplus of it, well!,-
that's a different matter. I use my greenhouse in winter for preserving
frost-prone potted perennials. I have a survival glazed section but
nothing can raise the temperature anywhere above the ambient outside
temperature save for a degree or two due to occasional clear-sky conditions-
and that's pushing it. When the temp reaches zero it freezes water. That
boy a the back pay attention! -What has a plant got in its stem ?.
The situation today is that bought plug seedlings in spring are cheaper than
our own early spring sowing of seeds in a greenhouse.
Like everything else ,the supermarkets, by sheer volume and cut-pricing
have killed off everyone else , butchers, cobblers grocers, corner shops
etc. etc, and soon it will be the Pharmacists, Doctors, Dentists
Physiotherapists, the whole lot. who will be sited under the sheds they call
supermarkets, The die is cast, the battle already over.
They even control who will grow what and at what price, and who's to
blame.?.
You and me, but we are helpless and the supermarket wallahs know it.
I say you and me because they have gradually trained us to accept that trash
is good and generations have grown up who know no other. Did the original M
& S ever dream that their later women buyers of a generation who know no
better would tolerate buying in bulk ladies dresses with the bottom hems
stitched with plain stitching that can be seen from the outside of the
fabric?. They just don't know the proper way to construct top class fabrics
and styles and the brainless teenagers purchasers know just nothing.
Mass hysteria and mass advertising keeps the cheapo "quality" pot aboiling,
but the spurious "high fashion" prices charged are a complete disgrace.
Doug.

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Doug.