[devonlad]

  red tomatoes coming up

[Carse Goodlifers]

Very good devonlad.
Looks good.
I purchased a small Aldi's 4 shelf mini greenhouse this weekend.
It will do what I need it to do until we get a proper green/glasshouse.

[Lesley Silvester]

I had one of those last year, CG, only from Wilko's. It was great and will be resurrected again this year.

[devonlad]

I've longed for a greenhouse and hope this will do for now. Sposed to be a bit windy this week so if it doesn't fly away I can get planting 

[cloddopper]

Perhaps to make it a bit more wind stable , put a cheapish plastic pea garden net over it and tie 2 litre pop bottles filled with water to the netting with string.  So they sit on the floor around the base , adjust the string lengths so there is a tiny bit of tension /weight  pulling the green house to the floor .

OR
Still with the net idea,  dig a trench around the errected & covered green house save for the door opening .   After hanging the net over it, drape the spare net across the trench , refill  the trench a bit at the middle on one side only , then tension and refill the same amount on opposite side .
This should allow you to make nice neat envelope corners for back filling over to bring everything nice and taught .

If your soil is so light it will run easily through the netting  put a few opened up bin bags  on top of the netting in the trench and then do a bit of back filling and tensioning by pulling the free edge of the net .

[Bramblecot]

I shall be expecting an abundance of fruit and veg. soon ! 

[Mammyshaz]

  looks great. Hope it produces an abundance of good produce. A bit of shelter makes so much difference 

[devonlad]

You'll be needing a watering can Jean

[devonlad]

I've longed for a greenhouse and hope this will do for now. Sposed to be a bit windy this week so if it doesn't fly away I can get planting 

It didn't blow away- not then anyway. But it did last night. Wishing the OH had videod it. I'm sure at some point I'd see the funny side of me being dragged across the garden and through a hedge by a greenhouse sized kite. Somehow managed to untie the cover from the frame despite the distraction of gale force winds. Once the dramatic bit was over closer inspection suggests all should be salvageable. Frame seems somewhat buckled but cover pretty much intact and remarkably my array of tomato courgette cucumber sweetcorn chiili and sweet pea seedlings seemed untouched as there snug home headed skywards. Not a spare windowsill right now. Hope wind dies by weekend and we will rebuild it. Why is it this bloomin windy - its May. Should have used that net idea clodopper. I thought half a tonne of stone and earth around the base would have withstood

[Lesley Silvester]

It has been rather blowy, hasn't it?    It makes me scared to go out to my car as I have to walk up a slope with the wind hitting me sideways. I keep having to get OH  to walk up with me to stop me from blowing over.

[pgkevet]

Up until my citrus house got moved to a permenant base I had it secured with ground anchors.. because it's glazed with twin-wall polycarb and light for it's size (14x9) . The ground anchors were lengths of downpipe dug and pounded into the soil a good couple of feet then ally straps bolted to the greenhouse and sat in the tubes ..backfilled the tubes with easy mix concrete. It means you can lift the ground anchors with, say, a car jack later if needed to remove.

And a remeniscent story:
Early 60's and dad took family camping (i former yugoslavia). One campsite it got breezy so we pitched tent sideways to the wind with mum complaining about the lack of view. Wind got stronger so out came the storm guy ropes. Wind got stronger so car got parked in front of tent and guys added to the roof rack. Wind got stronger and car started to sway.. so guys moved to the wheels and I took apart a collapsed dry-stone wall for boulders around the canvas base.

Wind got stronger.... Dad and i spend most of the night hanging from the ridgepole to add weight to the tent while it howled and roared outside..

Come morning we were the only tent in the campsite. The only caravan was a heap of shards at one end of the field and the hotel next door had no windows and most of it's garden furniture and dining tables etc twisted and broken inside.

Yup, breezy needs precautions but don't camp in a hurricane