WRabbit wrote:
"jane" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 May 2006 21:37:46 +0100, "WRabbit"
wrote:
~We've got a small suburban garden, with no room for a greenhouse. I've
~already got a timber planthouse (one of the Haxnick's ones), but it
didn't
~make it through the winter very well.
I had one of the large Haxnicks ones too, though fortunately it was
originally a cheap second off Ebay and I had to do a bit of redrilling
to get it constructed in the first place.
Snap 
It has recently encountered a large amount of Evostik waterproof
outdoor wood glue, and seems now to be fairly sturdy again (after the
top fell apart due to swelling wood, as did one of the front doors!)
I had painted it with preservative, too!
AOL. My problem is the side walls have distorted enough that they've pulled
away from the polycarbonate, so there are gaps down the sides now. Again
because of this general distortion the bottom shelf tends to only rest on 3
out of the 4 supports. After it collapsed for the 3rd time sending plant
trays everywhere I've just removed it.
The Haxnicks cold frame (another Ebay second) that I bought is now through
it's second winter and is fantastic - that's what made me buy the plant
house.
They are pushing this for hobby gardeners: not good value unless you
can get one cheap. Thanks for the links - will come in handy when the
growhouse finally rots too much for me to reconstruct it!!
I'll post back and let you know how I get on if you're interested. Waiting
till end of month - May is *so* expensive for the garden.
Now, if I could only stop the snails from crawling up and over into
the open top and eating my hardening-off seedlings...
I went for slug pellets round the base. I had reasonable success with the
copper tape round some pots last year, so careful application to the
planthouse might work.
Still had no reply from DIY re the size, so that is them out for me,
especially as I have used Rootrainers and found them efficient.
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