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Using my mini plastic greenhouse

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2021
    For personal experience, I wouldn't site it too close to a fence. Cats / foxes jumped on my greenhouse and the whole thing would go flying at 3am, causing terror to the neighbours and flinging precious, broken seedlings hither and yon.

    Also, watch out for slugs. Once they get inside a zipped up greenhouse they have a private feast on hand and can mulch a great deal with impunity, nice and warm and moist. # all you can eat buffet.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Slugs and snails actually manage to nip into my conservatory
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Found slugs in mums kitchen, my bedroom…. Not sure any greenhouse is safe from those little pests.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's true that slugs get everywhere but it's worth taking everything out now and again to check under the pots. The can decimate a small plastic greenhouse pretty fast; Esp if you are not expecting it.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    My "blowaway" was very useful this time last year, because night time temperatures were much higher, so tender things could be left there all the time.  Not so this year...  I've currently got hardy seedlings in there (lettuce, salad veg, sugar peas & sweet peas), hardening the peas/sweet peas off at the moment.  Runner beans, courgettes & cosmos are on windowsills at night and in the blowaway during the day, because the light levels are better - and it's not too cold by day.  Still much too cold at night though.  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Thank you so much everyone! If you remember, can you let me know when it’s warm enough to transfer to the Blowaway please? I’m based in Nottingham. 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    When I got up today going outside to check after the wind and rain, there was a 🐌 walking up the outside of my French doors
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2021
    Night temps are forecast to pick up (in London) from Sunday and that will hopefully be our last frost date. The BBC forecast looks similar, at the moment, for Notts.
    Hopefully there will be night temps at 10oC or over in June.
  • Thanks @Fire, so am I waiting for frosts to subside overnight (I.e. 0 degrees) or warmer than that? You mentioned 10 degrees. Thanks!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Frosts can happen at temps a bit higher than 0oC.

    I think most UK garden plants will be happy to grow outside from a solid ten degrees. Other will have other views on this...
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