New old greenhouse

Just collected our new old greenhouse from the West Midlands. Tony our property maintenence contractor kindly drove me on what started out as a sunny Sunday morning. This eventually turned into heavy rain which lasted most of the afternoon.

The greenhouse was purchased via Ebay. A large 16 foot by 8 foot aluminium.

We have to remove our old greenhouse and reposition it once we have laid the new foundations for it. Then we can dig the footings for the new greenhouse and have fun putting it back together again. I took a picture of one on the ends as we had to completely dismantle it to fit in the van.

The other picture is of the 'jigsaw' in the back of the van.

I may end up paining it a darker shade of green though as the paint is a little bit on the light side for our garden.

The glass is going to be the best bit. It is going to take forever to work out which bit goes where as they are all different sizes.

I will let you know how things get on.

Spring is just around the corner

We have rotated the crops again this year and now the Runner Beans are going to be planted in the top bed (one of the two we dug out at the end of last season).

I have dug out a trench, 1 spit deep and 2 foot wide. I am going to line the trench with newspaper and put all the veg peelings etc into it. These will, ove rthe next few months, start to rot down.

It is important to do this as runner beans like a rich and water retentive soil.

The next picture shows a closeup.