Where to site a greenhouse

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• wild edges Posts: 10,497

  May 2019

  What are you planning on growing in there? Full sun gives you the best range of growing options as you can always shade sun out but you can't add it unless you want to run grow lights.
  

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• Newby40 Posts: 10

  May 2019

  Thanks for your replies. Not sure yet but definitely tomatoes and plants for the garden. I moved here in late October 2019 and I’m just trying to reorder the garden, it’s a corner plot and I’m planning veg at the back in raised beds and a flower garden to the side. I have builders in next week to build greenhouse, shed, move a fence and raised beds, it’s so hard to decide where to put stuff.
  the back garden is south facing and has sun all day, so do I point the greenhouse to the east?

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  May 2019

  I think the norm is run the ridge North / South ( sorry @philippa smith2) so the sun shines on the east side in the morning, down the whole length at mid day and on the west side in the evening.
  Very often the site determines where it has to go unless you have lots of room.

  Devon.

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  May 2019

  I have one greenhouse sited N-S and the other E-W and I've not noticed any difference.  As said above, the more sun the better, regardless of orientation.
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• Newby40 Posts: 10

  May 2019

  Thanks for your help, I had two places picked out and will place it so that the ridge will be east, problem solved I can now draw up another plan and stick to it, can’t wait to get in there!

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