Has anyone used one of those plastic greenhouses from wilko?

[Fluffycloudland77]

I've got room for one on the side of those hidden from view and it would get daylight all day till about 4pm.

Something like this? greenhouse

I have similar, you just have to weigh it down really well, otherwise the slightest gust of wind and it blows over. Ours is tethered to the fence (screw in hooks and cable ties) and has an old paving slab on the bottom shelf so it doesn't move at all now

Yes like that.

Sounds like I need something heavy to weigh it down.

Yes we have one like that above for a few years. Weighed down with paving slab as suggested. We replaced the cover last year as it got torn. The frame is still fine though.

We call them blowaways. Or blowovers.

I spotting a theme here.

I have one. My cat likes it. I forgot to water the plants though and we had a hot spell and now they are shrivelled and dead. :/

Mine doesn't need weighing down, the plants are heavy enough. Although it is quite sheltered in our garden and the cat weight helps.

Yes, we had one with the green cover which got all raggedy and torn, they blow over really easily and the zip broke.

I had large one, anchored to the ground and screwed to a raised bed with concrete blocks on the bottom 'shelves'.

The raised bed got ripped up, and the whole thing ended up in the nearest hedge. The concrete blocks and shelves - were the only things left.

I use tent pegs on mine, and all the shelves are wired to the frame, as is the cover. Agree with keeping something heavy on the bottom shelf.

It's the wind getting inside and making them balloon that's the trouble. If you pull the covers down really well at the back & sides, you can put bricks on top of the edges where they meet the ground, which will stop the wind getting in. You need to hold down the bottom of the flap at the front as well. We used a concrete squirrel last winter

They get too hot in the summer, but are useful for overwintering things that are a bit tender or don't like it too wet in the winter. Handy for starting seeds in the spring too. I'm going to be taking cutting soon, and they will go in there. Mine's in partial shade at the moment.

Bit late to this I know, but as we can't put a greenhouse in the garden of the new house yet (have to get Listed Building Consent for some reason), I was thinking of getting one of these so that I could grow on some cuttings of perennials and plug plants over the winter. And get some seeds going early next year.

Good plan?

I got a Wilko greenhouse and ordered a larger size cover from internet so that it would be easy to weight down and also easy to zip up .

works fine .