I'm getting a greenhouse, yeeeow! Any advice?

[buckeejit]

I'm beyond excited 😁

Am sure it will take a couple of months to be delivered but we need to get the base sorted so that's fine. It will be a basic traditional greenhouse like this & we'll get staging to one side.

I'll get electric hooked up to it. Beyond that, please recommend any hints & tips I should be aware of to enhance my future greenhouse life! Thank you!

Enjoy your new greenhouse. My tip is to order a bigger one! Within a week of it arriving, at the most, you will wish you had more space in there. You can never have a big enough greenhouse!

Get as many vents as you can & self opening window things. I also enjoy my min/max thermometer but mostly so I can bore my husband with the greenhouse temperature 🙂. If you can hook up some guttering and a water butt to it then that is very useful.

Don’t overfill it. I wish I’d taken my own advice

If you're preparing the base and hooking up electric, what about water too unless your tap is close? Wrestling with a hose down to mine is annoying.

As above - (it's my first year of having a greenhouse) we have a water butt on the back of ours with a hole drilled thru the greenhouse for a hose, saves so much time and effort with watering!

Get the rain on the roof to drain into a water butt, a big one, maybe two. Greenhouse plants need a lot of watering

I’m assuming that you’ve already ordered it. If not double sliding doors are useful, so that you can get a wheelbarrow in.
Other than what’s already suggested, a tall stool. Standing up to pot on can be weary!

Super advice, thanks all. Will do the water butt. A tap inside would be good but only about 15ft from the outside tap so will survive.

It's 10x8 so not massive but can't wait to get started.

The thermometer is a good idea - is it the kind where you can check it remotely. I've a birthday coming up so thermometer & high stool going on it. Just been told we've got £250 to spend on accessories so off to check on guttering, vents & staging etc

@buckeejit

I'm beyond excited 😁

Am sure it will take a couple of months to be delivered but we need to get the base sorted so that's fine. It will be a basic traditional greenhouse like this & we'll get staging to one side.

I'll get electric hooked up to it. Beyond that, please recommend any hints & tips I should be aware of to enhance my future greenhouse life! Thank you!

Soon as I read yeeeooo I knew I'd found the Belfast belter 😂

@PaddleBoardingMomma 😆.

Ulster says YEEOOW!

If you’re putting electricity through an underground conduit, lay a piece of polythene string through too, so if you ever have to replace the cable you can pull the new bit through by tying it on to the string.

If you have room, a comfy chair. I do all my greenhouse work in a comfy chair, with the plant on a small coffee table in front of me. It’s also a lovely place for coffee on a sunny winter morning, especially with some spring bulbs in there. I don’t have a tall stool.

If you’re heating it in the winter, one of those remote control thermometers, so you can stand in the kitchen and see what the temperature is in the greenhouse.

Don’t spend a lot on staging - you will want to change it once you’ve established how you are going to use the greenhouse.

I have some long canes suspended in the roof. In winter, the hold bubble wrap for insulation. In summer, they support my tomatoes

@MereDintofPandiculation great ideas thanks -it's actually only 10x6 I've realised so not sure if a comfy chair will fit but I love the idea of that! I can see myself sitting in it with a cuppa & a book if I'll fit!