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Tomato greenhouse keeps blowing over

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womananddog · 06/04/2025 14:17

Last year I was given a "greenhouse" - plastic on an aluminium frame. It was useless as it kept blowing over/away. How do people keep theirs tethered? I want to use it on my patio so can't bury the flaps

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IdLikeThingToSpiralIntoControl · 06/04/2025 14:20

are there any eyelets on the cover anywhere so that you could run strong twine through and tie a brick to the end? so the brick sits on the floor I mean.

womananddog · 06/04/2025 14:23

I tried weighting the flaps last year and it seemed to work loose when it was windy. I didn't tie the weights on so maybe that would work

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ohnowwhatcanitbe · 06/04/2025 14:45

Put a paving slab or two in the bottom.

senua · 06/04/2025 21:57

IdLikeThingToSpiralIntoControl · 06/04/2025 14:20

are there any eyelets on the cover anywhere so that you could run strong twine through and tie a brick to the end? so the brick sits on the floor I mean.

Mine had three eyelets at the top, to let the canes poke through. I twisted twine around the canes and then weighted each end of the twine with a brick, back at ground level. I had perforated bricks so it was easy to tie the twine round them securely.

I have also in the past put weights on the aluminium frame, rather than the plastic.

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