It sounds like you all need to have a look at the natural plant antifreeze website - www.cropaid.com and spray your crops or seedlings with it. It has protected many crops already in many countries and you just need to dilute and spray atomized, the protection then lasts for a week or two. Have a look!
I generally try to add enough heat to keep the temperature at 6 or 7 C and, agree this seems to do the trick as far as cold nights are concerned. It is also worth making a bubble-wrap walled area up oneend of the greenhouse and then this will keep a bit warmer still, but do remember to ventilate it as often as you can or else it may become dangerously muggy and damp!
Linda, re my website,sorry, I was having the sign-up-for-news/friends of Pippa bit re-jigged last week, suspect you hit just the wrong moment, worth trying again. Just go to www.pippagreenwood.com and click on 'Free EBook', it was working a minute ago!
Justbeginning- Being a retired heating engineer and having a greenhouse attached to the house I am in the process of installing a gas central heating system.(Very Cosy)Rads & all. I seem to rememberthat plants will just tick over ata a minimum temperature, which I have forgotten, a senoir moment, Keeping running cost down to a minimum is essential and todays modern controls are accurate to within half of one degree. So through the depths of winter I just need to keep geraniums/fuscia's growing without a great flush of growth thast ought to be starting any time now.
Mrs Panda...If it si at all possible try fitting an automatic ventilator device.Aty my last house I had a wax filled unit which work very well for years, without any trouble.I set it to open at 60 F and it never failed. Do seak one out, they are worth while. Good luck.
Mrs Panda...If it is at all possible try fitting an automatic ventilator device.At my last house I had a wax filled unit which work very well for years, without any trouble.I set it to open at 60 F and it never failed. Do seak one out, they are worth while. Good luck.
My greenhouse is some distance from the mains electricity supply so I would like to have it heated by propane. (I can't stand the smell of paraffin!)I am having a lot of trouble tracing a supplier of a propane - fired greenhouse heater. Has anyone any recommendations?
Watched the programme last week tried to watch it this week but to my disgust both were full of garden visits and very little informative content.Where is the modern day Percy Thrower .R Atkinson.
to R. Atkinson (surely not the big Ron?) patience, this is not a great time of year for that how to stuff on tv, seedlings and cutting all look the same (on tv) so why repeat - (Monty showed us beetroot. Snowdrops can be divided as well as herbatious plants and root cuttings - And we saw all that in the last two weeks. We saw rose pruning & fruit bush pruning, and i'll bet they move an established shrub next week. A feature on summer bulbs with new info not taught in my rhs course. What else could we be shown at this time of the year? The domestic garden visit showed the anual clear up and the other visits brought us seasonal fetures like magnolias and camelias. I'll admit the Enid Blighton garden was nice but a bit pointless. That just shows you how hard it is at this time of year, but even then GW should also be as much about apreciation as learning, and it was a nice garden. I have seen Percy T and got two of his classic gardening books, and love 'em but he lived ina different age of mechanical routine and ritual of chemical sparying and feeding which is just not relivant in the more relaxed Orgaic meathod. If you want a list orders to follow at set pre-determined times try biodynamic gardening. Makes Percy look relaxed and flexible.
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Linda, re my website,sorry, I was having the sign-up-for-news/friends of Pippa bit re-jigged last week, suspect you hit just the wrong moment, worth trying again. Just go to www.pippagreenwood.com and click on 'Free EBook', it was working a minute ago!
Keeping running cost down to a minimum is essential and todays modern controls are accurate to within half of one degree. So through the depths of winter I just need to keep geraniums/fuscia's growing without a great flush of growth thast ought to be starting any time now.
I have seen Percy T and got two of his classic gardening books, and love 'em but he lived ina different age of mechanical routine and ritual of chemical sparying and feeding which is just not relivant in the more relaxed Orgaic meathod. If you want a list orders to follow at set pre-determined times try biodynamic gardening. Makes Percy look relaxed and flexible.