What To Put In Your Greenhouse
Greenhouses are a prized item when it comes to gardening. Not everyone can have one because of restraints on the budget and on the size of the garden. However, if you can afford one it will enrich your gardening no end and you’ll appreciate an early start to your growing season.
You can sow and grow on tender plants for planting out later in the season. You can over winter your more delicate plants and during the summer you can grow vegetables like Italian tomatoes, peppers and aubergines that just would not do so well outside in the variable UK weather. And if it’s cold, wet and windy your greenhouse is the perfect place to continue gardening in the dry.
To make a greenhouse pay its way in your garden you need to maximise the use you get out of it. Greenhouses are not just for growing you’ll also need a workplace to pot plants on. In a smaller greenhouse you might find that a potting bench is all you need. You can sew and pot on using the bench in spring and store the plant pots underneath during winter.
However, for most people a potting bench is too small and restricting. A much better option is aluminium greenhouse staging that comes in a variety of sizes to fit greenhouses both small and large. The staging can have one or two shelves underneath for storage or even no shelves at all if you want.
The greenhouse staging can have slat tops for better ventilation or solid tops to provide a working surface. If space is tight then some designs will fold down so that during the height of the growing season you can optimise the space inside your greenhouse.
Being flexible with the insides of your greenhouse will help you get the most out of it. At times you’ll need to cope with a mass of young growing plants and at times it could be almost devoid of living vegetation.
