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Last weekend Paul was busy putting up my new 14ft greenhouse. The framework is all up and he hopes to fit all the glass this weekend, weather permitting. I cant wait, Ive never had a greenhouse and look forward to growing tomatoes and cucumbers.

I always grew Alicante toms outside, I read that they are one of the best for outside growing but the two past wet summers didnt help so the crop was poor. I also attempted the old fashioned Ridge cucumbers which did produce some nice juicy fruits but not as much as they should have.

So now its a whole new learning chapter which I am looking forward to, at the same time, Im a tad nervous, who would believe one can have stage fright in a greenhouse :-)) those Toms and Cues better dance the dance!

Anyway, I dont want to be over dramatic :-) I will take some photos once its up and then it will be ongoing greenhouse antics blogs posted here.

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nice one big size wish i had the space for that

28 Feb, 2009

 

I wish you success with your greenhouse crops. There's nothing like fresh tomatoes from the greenhouse .

28 Feb, 2009

 

Good luck with your plans :o)

28 Feb, 2009

 

Good size greenhouse, i had 1 come the other week, still waiting for my friend to come back of holiday to put it up, he's not back for 2 more weeks, then its only a very small one, at 6ft-4ft, but i'm on my own so plenty big enough for me. Good luck with planting.

28 Feb, 2009

 

Congrats! Hope you can grow all the things you like now : )

28 Feb, 2009

 

That is a big greenhouse - mine is 6' x 8' I think - we got it 4 years ago. It really wasn't big enough for my needs!

28 Feb, 2009

 

Hope you have lots of success with your new venture.Certainly its a good size greenhouse,and offers lots of scope !

28 Feb, 2009

 

Wow thats some growing space,looking forwards to future blogs.......

2 Mar, 2009

 

Thanks everyone :-) Most of the glass is in now, just one more side to finish, such fiddly job, Paul is a workaholic once he gets started on stuff, he was out from 7am Sunday morning until 7pm! I was playing tea and soup lady during the day and rum and coke waitress after
5pm :-))

2 Mar, 2009

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