More work ..

[Flo]

The family is buying me a small greenhouse for the back garden for a combined birthday/Xmas present. It's arriving Monday in pieces and will be erected fairly soon I suspect. The local lot want home grown tomatoes.

[Green Aura]

Excellent. I'd love a greenhouse but I don't think they're high winds friendly.

I've just spent an hour sewing (yes, with a needle and thick garden twine) the windbreak back on which blew off last week in the not so high winds. I don't think you can sew glass.

[Odsox]

You might be interested, Maggie & Flo, that I was given a cheap 8' x 6' aluminium greenhouse several years ago. I laid a single course on 8" blocks for it to sit on and screwed the base down in several places.
It has endured several winter storms and the only casualty is a cracked sheet of glass where a wayward barrel was blown against it.
Being on blocks means that you step down into it, giving a bit more headroom inside as a bonus.

The storms of 2013 destroyed both my polytunnels but the little greenhouse was unscathed.

[Flo]

I have no idea exactly what has been ordered so will have to wait and see what comes. It's polycarb I do know and 6' by 4' so will see. Excitement? Well it may have difficulty arriving tomorrow as the roads here are dreadful - sudden snow and not a gritter in place.

[Green Aura]

We bought my mother one of those years back, I think it might have been a little bigger. It did her very nicely. Just big enough for 4-5 tomatoes and a cucumber, with a bit of staging for peppers and seedlings.

It was very easy to put up and very low maintenance, if memory serves. But it does need a bit of shelter from the wind.

[Flo]

Bit of a saga with the delivery - family forgot the number that I live at though they got the road right and the village right. Oh and the parcels (frame in one, base in another and poly-carbonate in the other) arrived this afternoon and not yesterday. Just have to find the time and weather to erect it now.

But at least the son-in-law who has been on fence erecting duty found time to come and do a small adjustment today so that next door can get his bins out for the rubbish collections. Still a bit more work to be done on the fence to completely secure it but there is only so much you can do in the dark and rain.

[Green Aura]

Are you starting to feel a bit more excited now? Well done to that delivery person.

Is the fence work repair after the floods or adjustment to fit your greenhouse?

[Flo]

Nah the fence was rotten when I moved in and has been gradually falling down for the last 2.5 years. These things take time you know especially when your fencing operative works 8 days a week.