God I love growing our own

[enrico]

As of this evening, I have thirty-five seed trays full of seeds waiting to germinate (plus the eight trays of peppers sown earlier). Not everything I wanted to get done, but what's left ideally needs both heat and light to germinate and for that I need to get the greenhouse propagator working again, which might take a couple of weeks. And in fact I've run out of compost anyhow.

Well done. Very satisfying isn't it. Hope you still have the greenhouses in the morning

 

[JamezF]

I was absolutely wiped out last night. I cut (and sanded the finished parts from) thirty-three sheets of ply at work yesterday and my body really knew it So, when my wife answered the door to a delivery driver at 9am today (I don't generally go into work on Tuesdays -- it's an admin day), I was still dead to the world. Had to get on the ball pretty sharpish though as he'd turned up with a load of twinwall polycarbonate sheets in an 18-tonne truck and couldn't get down the drive.

A couple of years back I bought a cheap-and-nasty polytunnel from that river place. I was fully aware of what I was likely to be getting, but I wanted to see if it would be suitable accomodation for the chickens when required by bird flu restrictions (and then potentially use it for growing more food over the Summer). Storm Darragh suggested that it certainly wouldn't be up to the job, so I've removed what was left of the polythene cover and intend to use the polycarbonate to turn it into something vaguely like this:

It's a design that apparently originated on Shetland to provide protected growing space that would withstand their weather.

In theory, the polycarbonate should provide even greater warmth than a greenhouse (so I'll be putting vents in the ends), but with the kind of space you'd not get in a greenhouse unless you were getting into the several thousands of pounds.

First however, I need to take one of the polycarbonate sheets to make a new lid for the heated propagator.

James

 

[Penninetrader]

I was absolutely wiped out last night. I cut (and sanded the finished parts from) thirty-three sheets of ply at work yesterday and my body really knew it So, when my wife answered the door to a delivery driver at 9am today (I don't generally go into work on Tuesdays -- it's an admin day), I was still dead to the world. Had to get on the ball pretty sharpish though as he'd turned up with a load of twinwall polycarbonate sheets in an 18-tonne truck and couldn't get down the drive.

A couple of years back I bought a cheap-and-nasty polytunnel from that river place. I was fully aware of what I was likely to be getting, but I wanted to see if it would be suitable accomodation for the chickens when required by bird flu restrictions (and then potentially use it for growing more food over the Summer). Storm Darragh suggested that it certainly wouldn't be up to the job, so I've removed what was left of the polythene cover and intend to use the polycarbonate to turn it into something vaguely like this:

It's a design that apparently originated on Shetland to provide protected growing space that would withstand their weather.

In theory, the polycarbonate should provide even greater warmth than a greenhouse (so I'll be putting vents in the ends), but with the kind of space you'd not get in a greenhouse unless you were getting into the several thousands of pounds.

First however, I need to take one of the polycarbonate sheets to make a new lid for the heated propagator.

James

You have obviously done your homework prior, how well does it follow the arcs when cladding the frame or do need to do some warming ?incidentally, was this new sheeting and what thickness ?