Thinking about lining the greenhouse this winter. My question is who uses the expensive uv stuff? It jusy seems alot of money. Where does everyone get bubble wrap from. Cheers gab.
hi gab i bought from City moves on the net being as were moving ,it comes in different lengths and widths and the price was the best and delivery good, im using it in the greenhouse and new garden this winter
Thanks for the replies. So is the cheap packaging stuff just as good? Was thinking of just leaving it in all year round. Hope it will last a couple of years. Thanks alan will check that out. Waterbutts is the fleece just as good?
I don't know if it's just as good cos I've only ever used fleece. I tie strings across the vertical windows and use mini clothes pegs to attach the fleece to them. They end up about two inches away from the glass. It works for me. The thing I like is the fleece packs up really small for the summer unlike the bubble wrap.
I think I'll try fleece this yr WB. Does it help to keep the frost off? What do you keep/grow in there? This is my 1st full winter with the greenhouse, so any ideas gratefully received. I'm hoping to overwinter my twisted stem standard fuchsias, and start off all my veg early. It the summer I use old net cutains on the sunny side for shade, and this works great as I can 'open the curtains' on dull days.
My greenhouse is essentially cold with only a nightime paraffin heater. I keep the fleece up all winter and I haven't noticed any mould or mildew at all. This will be my second winter. Last winter it was minus ten at night and I kept things like pelargoniums going OK.
I use net curtains too - they are jolly good. I just washed mine and put them away today!
Thank, you, Waterbutts. A neighbour gave me a paraffin heater when he saw me putting up the greenhouse, but I never got to use it last yr. Unlike Tea, I have lovely neighbours on every side, and just sheep in front (they're the noisy neighbours!)
Yes, we have sheep on two sides and sometimes, when they escape, on three. Two delinquent ones have never been tagged and seem to belong to nobody. They spend their lives walking up and down the road side by side and breaking into gardens.
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You can buy rolls of bubble wrap at self storage units. I use white fleece.
Thanks for the replies. So is the cheap packaging stuff just as good? Was thinking of just leaving it in all year round. Hope it will last a couple of years. Thanks alan will check that out. Waterbutts is the fleece just as good?
I don't know if it's just as good cos I've only ever used fleece. I tie strings across the vertical windows and use mini clothes pegs to attach the fleece to them. They end up about two inches away from the glass. It works for me. The thing I like is the fleece packs up really small for the summer unlike the bubble wrap.
I think I'll try fleece this yr WB. Does it help to keep the frost off? What do you keep/grow in there? This is my 1st full winter with the greenhouse, so any ideas gratefully received. I'm hoping to overwinter my twisted stem standard fuchsias, and start off all my veg early. It the summer I use old net cutains on the sunny side for shade, and this works great as I can 'open the curtains' on dull days.
My greenhouse is essentially cold with only a nightime paraffin heater. I keep the fleece up all winter and I haven't noticed any mould or mildew at all. This will be my second winter. Last winter it was minus ten at night and I kept things like pelargoniums going OK.
I use net curtains too - they are jolly good. I just washed mine and put them away today!
Thank, you, Waterbutts. A neighbour gave me a paraffin heater when he saw me putting up the greenhouse, but I never got to use it last yr. Unlike Tea, I have lovely neighbours on every side, and just sheep in front (they're the noisy neighbours!)
Yes, we have sheep on two sides and sometimes, when they escape, on three. Two delinquent ones have never been tagged and seem to belong to nobody. They spend their lives walking up and down the road side by side and breaking into gardens.
You can get big rolls of bubble wrap from the stationery store Staples, its where I got mine.
How about this
ebay Link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310359822329
this is what I will be buying when my greenhouse get built
James