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kay · 15-09-2012, 08:48 PM

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I guess the reason I get by without floor vents is that I keep the
doors
open once the weather warms up. Floor vents aren't a lot of use if
you've got the under-staging area crammed with pots, compost etc.-

You have to be around all of the time to do that.

Once I open the doors (in early June) they seem to stay open all by
themselves ;-)

The latest spring frost that I have had in Cambridge was the night
of June 20th one year. People in colder parts of the country can
have frosts at any time.

And a lot of the more tender species can be seriously knocked back by
even quite moderate cold snaps when young - which is why people grow
them on in greenhouses. I had problems this year even in my fairly
warm conservatory, because I had the vents open - nothing serious,
but several of them lost a couple of weeks.

We're more west than you, and probably higher up, so that although we are in a local frost pocket, we're still at least 350ft above the valley floor. So quite possibly have less frost problem.

The greenhouse is for cacti, for overwintering things that will be outside in the summer, and for veg that people in more favoured and less slug-ridden areas would grow outside. So once the weather has warmed up, I can just leave the doors open. I can see that you might have more of a problem.