A year after we finished our self made wooden lean-to greenhouse we have completed the beautiful aluminium one, given to us by our great old friends Mary and Gary.
It's been quite an adventure, spanning 3 months, gales, heatwaves, blizzards, and floods, to now being in production, quite literally!
This will extend our vegetable growing season, giving a further 120 square feet of under glass growing. We are delighted!
Here's the journey in photographs:
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| at home - in situ at Mary & Gary's |
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| dismantling begins - March 2013 |
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| de-glazed |
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| one greenhouse kit! |
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| glass - much of this was not to survive the Easter snowdrifts intact |
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| meanwhile.... digging the foundations |
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| a lot of digging! but all that soil was to come in handy |
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| not being surveyors, we didn't realise just what a slope that is |
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| a good three feet.. |
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| ready to go |
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| an ingenious mixture of rubble and block - not easy to level though! |
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| Gary erects the first piece of frame |
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| all corners up |
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| looks OK? |
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| coming together well |
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| frame more or less complete |
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| ready for the glass |
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| getting things square - ish |
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| looking the part - way across the garden |
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| glazed |
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| now for the beds |
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| digging down - over three feet of good soil to 'harvest' |
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| posts and scaff boards - just the job |
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| bed edging |
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| the glacial clay below the soil. This will be at least two feet down |
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| the path to the underworld! |
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| a useful way to get rid of lots of rubble |
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| finished! |
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| chuffed to bits! |
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| and finally planted |
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| in production |
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| hanging tomatoes |
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| lettuce, sewn Wednesday, germinated Friday |
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| a Belotti Bean from Claire |
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| ideal soil conditions |
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| Happy Days! |
