These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things ...
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ...” Julie Andrews ... eat your heart out! (You’re lucky this blog has not got sound ‘cause I sound like an old saw when I sing ...)
Seriously, when you first get a greenhouse you don’t really know where to start to make the best use of the space. You know what you want grow and you know you want it to grow well, but usually that’s about it.
But if you had to advise a new greenhouse gardener on just three things they could buy to help them get the best from their greenhouse, what would it be? Here are my suggestions ...
Aluminium staging – best with two levels, giving you storage for your pots and room to grow on the top – I’d always recommend aluminium over wood as it’s so easy to look after, in fact after almost 7 years mine still looks brand new!
Compost Sieve – I actually wasted a lot of effort by thinking I could cheat and use any old ‘reject’ sieve from the kitchen, but now I’ve got one with deep sides it’s really easy to get fine compost without it flying everywhere!
Water Matting – sounds simple doesn’t it, but you don’t realise how much easier watering onto matting is than having to water individual pots – and with water matting there’s no chance of knocking small plants flat with a deluge of water!
But I’m sure you’ll have a different opinion, so what would you choose???
