Another vote for Rhino here ..... still delighted with it after over 4 years.
Just on a practical point if you are thinking of attaching water butts to your greenhouse guttering (we did). Give some thought to how to manage the overflow from the butts when full. We created an overflow pipe which goes into our river, but you could create a soakaway.
Also, rather than just have a base of flags, you might want to leave a couple out and put gravel there ... very useful for watering plants/draining.
Final bit of advice ... give some thought to where any anchoring bolts are needed. You don't want to be drilling through the edge of flags as they may crack. Better drilling in the middle.
Enjoy your greenhouse when you get it.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Great points . I was thinking of putting a strip of gravel grids up the middle yo help with drainage but never thought of the water butt overflowing or where the greenhouse base should fix to the slabs ! I noticed that carol klein is a big rhino fan too ! Thank you , so helpful
This is how I had mine installed leaving an internal lip (about 6") of paving to secure the base. I had a border on just the left side (the north-facing side) to grow tomatoes directly in the soil. The tomato border is on the north side to encourage the pants to grow toward the south side. This stops the leaves pressing up against the hot glass in the summer and getting damaged and diseased. It also leaves space and plenty of sun on the south side so I can grow peppers and chili on the staging.
If you're thinking of having electricity in the greenhouse, consider that before laying the paving. Even if you just put in a bit of plastic pipe under the paving you can then feed cable through at a later stage.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Just on a practical point if you are thinking of attaching water butts to your greenhouse guttering (we did). Give some thought to how to manage the overflow from the butts when full. We created an overflow pipe which goes into our river, but you could create a soakaway.
Also, rather than just have a base of flags, you might want to leave a couple out and put gravel there ... very useful for watering plants/draining.
Final bit of advice ... give some thought to where any anchoring bolts are needed. You don't want to be drilling through the edge of flags as they may crack. Better drilling in the middle.
Enjoy your greenhouse when you get it.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I had a border on just the left side (the north-facing side) to grow tomatoes directly in the soil.
The tomato border is on the north side to encourage the pants to grow toward the south side. This stops the leaves pressing up against the hot glass in the summer and getting damaged and diseased.
It also leaves space and plenty of sun on the south side so I can grow peppers and chili on the staging.
If you're thinking of having electricity in the greenhouse, consider that before laying the paving. Even if you just put in a bit of plastic pipe under the paving you can then feed cable through at a later stage.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.