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Build Your Own Propagator

And Cut Down On Your Heating Bills ...

At this time of year we’re all starting to sense the change in temperatures ... Nights are getting colder, frosty windscreens provide extra effort in a morning ... and at a weekend walking the dog now involves coat, gloves and scarf (hat to follow) as I crunch through the frosty countryside.

As well as you and I feeling the cold, so are our plants and Adrienne Wild from the Sunday Mirror reminded me this weekend that we can treat our plants well in the winter whilst still keeping costs to a minimum ...

“Cut down on greenhouse heating bills by making a heated propagator...”

Get Some Insulation In Place ...

insulate your greenhouse with heatsheets, greenhouse insulation material

Before you follow Adrienne’s advice and build yourself a propagator, remember to insulate your greenhouse first! There’s no point putting heat into your greenhouse if you let it all escape again and lining your greenhouse with an insulating material only takes a little bit of time and effort but will help to keep any heat in your greenhouse (even without a heater a simple lining of the greenhouse walls can often keep plants frost free). And once the insulation is in place you’ll be able to leave it there until Spring next year ... really useful as we sow new seeds and delicate seedlings start to appear.

Posted by Greenhouse Girl at 07:06 PM on

COMMENTS

Have you considered pollination of plants in your 10' X 6' polytunnel, with two doorways and four air vents which stop insects getting in so no pollination can take place naturally. Whatabout slightly bigger guage netting on one or two of the vents?

Posted by: Will Stephenson at July 10, 2008 05:07 PM

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