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greenhouse recommendations, advice?
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from Janet Tweedy contains these words: /snip/ I know there are more experienced gardeners than me out there. What advice can you give? Should I stick with all glass, go for brick base, opt for aluminium? I don't need it as a very warm greenhouse as I just want to heat it to a few degrees to get seedlings on and to over winter. The best greenhouse I ever had/worked in was a GRP (glass fibre) one. The sections were (inverted) 'U' shaped, and bolted together. There was a flange on the bottom which was buried to prevent the wind uprooting the whole thing. It had sliding GRP doors. I divided it into a large middle bed and two narrower ones down each side and dug two walkways to a depth of about eighteen inches below ground level, thus raising the beds by a similar amount. This made working the beds and working in it much easier, and more pleasant. I had to dig a trench round it and put in corrugated iron to keep the damned moles out. I grew tomatoes and cucumbers (for farm gate sale) and underplanted with strawberries and catchcrops of radishes, and trained two grape vines along the top. . . . . | ' ' into the trench / \ | | | v | | | | | | -- corrugated iron __| | | |__ with the bottom bent | | out to foil the little |~~~~· ·~~~~~~~~· ·~~~~| men in velvet weskits ___________ | | | | | | __________ | _| | | | | |_ | |____: |__| |__| :____| -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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greenhouse recommendations, advice?
In article , Rusty Hinge
2 writes The best greenhouse I ever had/worked in was a GRP (glass fibre) one. The sections were (inverted) 'U' shaped, and bolted together. There was a flange on the bottom which was buried to prevent the wind uprooting the whole thing. Was it a particular make? I'm not sure I'm up to building my own! Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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greenhouse recommendations, advice?
The message
from Janet Tweedy contains these words: In article , Rusty Hinge 2 writes The best greenhouse I ever had/worked in was a GRP (glass fibre) one. The sections were (inverted) 'U' shaped, and bolted together. There was a flange on the bottom which was buried to prevent the wind uprooting the whole thing. Was it a particular make? I'm not sure I'm up to building my own! Yes, it was. But I don't think I ever knew the maker. However, I bought it secondhand about twenty years ago, and the bloke who sold it to me emigrated to Canadadadada five or six years after that. He'd just weighted the rim with bricks, and the wind got up and played with it, so I bought what was left, always meaning to afford to get extra hoops. I'd buy another if I had the wherewithal - and somewhere sensible to put it. As it is, I intend building one over the septic tank, and one of those just wouldn't suit. It's the principle which matters, though - bolt-together sections, two ends and two doors. I'd guess mine was a good ten feet wide, but only about eighteen or twenty feey long. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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greenhouse recommendations, advice?
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The best greenhouse I ever had/worked in was a GRP (glass fibre) one. The sections were (inverted) 'U' shaped, and bolted together. There was a flange on the bottom which was buried to prevent the wind uprooting the whole thing. It had sliding GRP doors. There's a swimming pool at a school in Coleshill, West Midlands (near where I live) with a similar structure over the top of it. The pool was originally open-air. The easiest way to cover it was to use GRP sections fixed to foundations around the edge, and bolted to each other as each new section was moved into place. It's huge - a much bigger span than I would have thought GRP could cover. |
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greenhouse recommendations, advice?
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from "Crazy Dog" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The best greenhouse I ever had/worked in was a GRP (glass fibre) one. The sections were (inverted) 'U' shaped, and bolted together. There was a flange on the bottom which was buried to prevent the wind uprooting the whole thing. It had sliding GRP doors. There's a swimming pool at a school in Coleshill, West Midlands (near where I live) with a similar structure over the top of it. The pool was originally open-air. The easiest way to cover it was to use GRP sections fixed to foundations around the edge, and bolted to each other as each new section was moved into place. It's huge - a much bigger span than I would have thought GRP could cover. I had this idea a while ago, when I had the smallholding. Dig a swimming pool, insulate the pit, line it, cover it, and then build a large GRP greenhouse over the top. Heat the water using radiators in triple-glazed panels to collect solar energy, and rely on the greenhouse to retain most of the heat. Have a big roller-shutter which will cover the pool - probably with a quickly-assembled frame under it to support it, and grow tropical or sub-tropical stuff which likes humidity all round the sides. "Swimming pool? No, of course not! It's agricultural - it's a heat and water reservoir and humidifier to keep the environment in my greenhouse right for the crops. Not rateable, oh no." ? "I'm in my swimming cossie 'cos it's so humid in here, why else?" -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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