KEF you're swelling my head! I will do the marigold thing then. I have researched the watercress growing (I so DO need advice!) Anyway, am going to try making holes in the sides of plastic plantpots, planting up, then placing the plantpots in an old washing up basin of water that comes a couple cm short of the rim of the pots, keep in greenhouse, change water every day (or most days!) And we'll see what happens. I like experimenting. Our soil here is indeed lovely to work with, like apple crumble topping. Needs bulking out a bit though and you have to keep on top of the watering, and it is full of pieces of sandstone, which come from the underground sandstone factory, where malevolent elves manufacture stones and push them upwards, so that even in a raised bed, where you thought you had sifted the soil very carefully, you find endless bits of rock. Biofreak you need to buy an extra chair! We are forever dragging ours round the garden. As for reading, you have reminded me I need to make new covers for the lounger cushions before too long!!
Fantastic Bee, love it, it's a nice shape and looks quite big love the 'thinking' chair, I have a chair in mine too at the moment, it usually lives on the veg patch but put it in the GH for now until it fills up......mine is my 'sanctuary' chair though......it needs a do not disturb sign on
I would like to see a picture though Orchid Lady!! You and I have been in tandem for weeks on the 'greenhouse not up yet, but on its way front'!! Have you put up a diversion sign for the footballs yet? Cherry, this afternoon I was thinking 'can't go in the garden, it's tipping it down' but of course I CAN garden in the rain now. Or get out the sewing machine. Need to mend my beekeeping suit too.
Ah, I see, I didn't want to hijack your thread, it didn't seem fair so. I posted it on the Forkers thread I sat in my 'sanctuary' with a glass of wine earlier as the sun was going down and listened to the rain on the roof.....magical
Busy Bee2 your greenhouse looks great here's to many hours & years of happy gardening ahead of you. Please move the pallet behind it if wind moves it could cause some damage.
Andy - you were a VERY important influence in my should I/shouldn't I days - in fact I have been inspired by your photo of a greenhouse ready to go after re-furbishment, throughout the whole process. I can't tell you how jealous I was of its pristine readiness!!! I hereby promise to move the pallet. Orchid Lady, isn't it amazing that after all this time we announced the new additions to our family on the same day? Lucky you live so far away or I'd have joined you with a fold up thinking chair and a bottle of wine and gatecrashed your greenhouse party!!
Hooray for Bee and Orchid However, I can guarantee that you both have a large problem. Not enough space! All GH are too small! You may just be wondering how to fill them now, but soon you will want more space. There will be no more room for a chair! My ex worked on an estate with a 100' victorian GH, and another 10x12, and they were stuffed to bursting by May. Mines nearly full already, but has done a stirling juo of overwintering my standard fuchsias. Only had it up a yr! Come back later in the yr with pics, please, just so I can say 'Told you so'
Busy I can't wait to see it next year at this time if like mine and most other's it will be full to the door. My two are full of seeds,cuttings tubers and bare root plants not an inch of space left but that's what their built for i spend many hours in them over the winter. One heated one not i don't know how i would manage without them in the garden i sit out there in my own wee world at times it's like another life hope you find the same enjoyment in yours.
gardenjeannie, I fear you are right. People round here often sell commercial greenhouses, and there is a very real temptation - especially as I have now got my head round all those nuts and bolts and clips, etc.
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KEF you're swelling my head! I will do the marigold thing then. I have researched the watercress growing (I so DO need advice!) Anyway, am going to try making holes in the sides of plastic plantpots, planting up, then placing the plantpots in an old washing up basin of water that comes a couple cm short of the rim of the pots, keep in greenhouse, change water every day (or most days!) And we'll see what happens. I like experimenting. Our soil here is indeed lovely to work with, like apple crumble topping. Needs bulking out a bit though and you have to keep on top of the watering, and it is full of pieces of sandstone, which come from the underground sandstone factory, where malevolent elves manufacture stones and push them upwards, so that even in a raised bed, where you thought you had sifted the soil very carefully, you find endless bits of rock. Biofreak you need to buy an extra chair! We are forever dragging ours round the garden. As for reading, you have reminded me I need to make new covers for the lounger cushions before too long!!
You seem to have plenty to keep you busy---good luck & enjoy!!!
Fantastic Bee, love it, it's a nice shape and looks quite big
love the 'thinking' chair, I have a chair in mine too at the moment, it usually lives on the veg patch but put it in the GH for now until it fills up......mine is my 'sanctuary' chair though......it needs a do not disturb sign on 
I would like to see a picture though Orchid Lady!! You and I have been in tandem for weeks on the 'greenhouse not up yet, but on its way front'!! Have you put up a diversion sign for the footballs yet? Cherry, this afternoon I was thinking 'can't go in the garden, it's tipping it down' but of course I CAN garden in the rain now. Or get out the sewing machine. Need to mend my beekeeping suit too
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Ah, I see, I didn't want to hijack your thread, it didn't seem fair so. I posted it on the Forkers thread
I sat in my 'sanctuary' with a glass of wine earlier as the sun was going down and listened to the rain on the roof.....magical 
Busy Bee2 your greenhouse looks great here's to many hours & years of happy gardening ahead of you. Please move the pallet behind it if wind moves it could cause some damage.
Andy - you were a VERY important influence in my should I/shouldn't I days - in fact I have been inspired by your photo of a greenhouse ready to go after re-furbishment, throughout the whole process. I can't tell you how jealous I was of its pristine readiness!!! I hereby promise to move the pallet. Orchid Lady, isn't it amazing that after all this time we announced the new additions to our family on the same day? Lucky you live so far away or I'd have joined you with a fold up thinking chair and a bottle of wine and gatecrashed your greenhouse party!!
Hooray for Bee and Orchid
However, I can guarantee that you both have a large problem. Not enough space! All GH are too small! You may just be wondering how to fill them now, but soon you will want more space. There will be no more room for a chair! My ex worked on an estate with a 100' victorian GH, and another 10x12, and they were stuffed to bursting by May. Mines nearly full already, but has done a stirling juo of overwintering my standard fuchsias. Only had it up a yr! Come back later in the yr with pics, please, just so I can say 'Told you so'
Busy I can't wait to see it next year at this time if like mine and most other's it will be full to the door. My two are full of seeds,cuttings tubers and bare root plants not an inch of space left but that's what their built for i spend many hours in them over the winter. One heated one not i don't know how i would manage without them in the garden i sit out there in my own wee world at times it's like another life hope you find the same enjoyment in yours.
gardenjeannie, I fear you are right. People round here often sell commercial greenhouses, and there is a very real temptation - especially as I have now got my head round all those nuts and bolts and clips, etc.