mini plastic greenhouse-what can i grow?

[powder28]

I have recently bought a small mobile patic greenjouse. I am completely new to gardening but i want to get into it for the summer.
Any ideas welcome, im open

Chillies - assuming you like them - they grow really well in those small greenhouses - v. satisfying!

I never even thought about chillies. Do you buy them from seeds? How do you care for them and when do you plant them?
Anything else I can grow foodwise that does well?

We grew them from seeds - but you might need some friends to take some of the plants . They just need lots of water (or that is all ours got!).

Ooh yes, I grew a sweet pepper and a chilli pepper in my little greenhouse last year. They did need a lot of water and you can also give them tomato fertilizer. I've saved some of the seeds to start off on the kitchen windowsill but there's no sign of anything yet. You should be able to buy little plants at a garden centre if you don't want to grow from seed. Even Homebase had them last year.

Ive yet to take the greenhouse out of its box and assemble it yet.
When is the best time to grow tomatoes? Im giong to get some in growbags? Do they need partial shade or anything? Can they survive on just water?
Sorry i sound like a right dumbass, but id love to get into gardening properly.

tomatoes prefer full sun, need LOTS of water and ideally some tomato food (from any garden centre) once they set the first fruit (ie not for a while yet!) - although didn't bother feeding mine last year & still got too many toms to eat!
May I reccomend no more than 1/2 chilli plants unless you a) eat a LOT of chillies b) can look at your chillies as decorative. They are very prolific!!

btw, I've got my new one outside the kitchen window ... so far all it's down is get blown down the garden every few days!! I was planning to use mine for raising seeds mostly, but might do some sweet peppers too now

Whats yours? Mines a 4-tiered upright one.
It was on speical offer for £15 down from about £30. I hope thats not cos it will blow away in a light breeze!!!!

if you want to get eating something home-grown quickly you could plant some of those mixed lettuce/salads and/or rocket in pots. They will grow very quickly and you can snip and eat them in just a few weeks. then when the tomatoes/chillis/peppers need some more space you can move them in their pots into the garden (they won't last long but are a fun stop-gap).

Mine was a Xmas present, powder, so no idea
Have suttons mixed salad ready to plant, nowornover!!

I have now assembled the greenhouse. Have had to surround it with pots in order for it not to blow away.
Thanks for all the ideas

If you have loads of chillies you can thread them and hang them to dry in the kitchen and they last for ages.Look nice strung up too!

We've grown both tomato plants and cucumbers outside having started them off in the greenhouse, and particularly the toms have been great - so you could maybe do that if you have access to another growing bed in the garden.

We're also growing some herbs and lettuces under a frame in the garden - you could do this in a window sill too - and then again plant some out in the garden.

Good luck - gardening on a small scale is great,

My patio raised beds from Suttons came today too - am so seriously fecked off that it's crapola weather this weekend, not nice planting and gettin muddy weather!

Gorgeous weather here, out gardening all week end (ducks as funnypeculier throws mud at me) well its not often you can say that living in Cumbria

My plastic greenhouse blew over last year, despite putting bricks at the bottom.
so i bought a new cover that has rings half way up at the back.
These are attached to hooks on the shed wall. Its not gone over again and it has been very windy at times!
I use mine for young plants and veg as an in between to propagator and garden - more like a coldframe really. Did try to grow sweet peppers last year but they didn't do so well. My garden is quite shady though.

Mine blew away too, couldn't get another cover so endedup buying a second one , then got a new cover so have started off with 2 this year.They are wedged together and haven't blown away so far!

Mine's got big chunks of paving slab on the bottom shelf and its never blown away but it is a bit annoying not being able to use all the space.

Marijuana
Mine is coming along splendidly.