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We’ve had so many chats with subscribers about greenhouses over the last couple of years that we thought it might be a useful thing for us to put all of those chats (well the useful bits) down in one place as a kind of useful reference for anyone thinking about […]
We have had a few questions in comments and on twitter recently about our set up in the greenhouse and how we use the propagators so I thought it would an excellent opportunity to talk to you a bit more about the process from start to finish. The first thing […]
Last week she was bare, this week she is all gussied up in her finery. So how do you make a small greenhouse work for all seasons?
You know I love my gadgets and this year I’ve had some fantastic success with my greenhouse gadgets (namely the quadgrow watering system). Well following on from that I treated myself to another quadgrow product, one which will house salad as well as pots for larger plants like peppers or chillies. Everything has been […]
Lots of excitement happening in the greenhouse this year with the arrival of our first peppers, some of which are red already 🙂 We like to try to experiment a little, it doesn’t always work to be fair, but it’s fun to try and this years experiment was sweet / bell […]
There is one big task I now do every year, it’s not fun and it’s quite time-consuming and that is to make all the little pots I need to plant the greenhouse seeds and flowers for the year. We used to just use standard plastic flower pots for this, but […]
That’s the tomato growing season come to an end here at At Bruidair and so the green house has been cleaned up for winter. Those who have been following my adventure with the new watering system may be wondering what my final thoughts were, would I recommend it, was I happy […]
When I installed my new quadgrow watering system in the greenhouse, one of my questions was, “will I be able to go off on holiday for a week and come home to happy and healthy tomatoes or will everything be dead?” We’ll I’m happy to report that yes, we went […]
I was going to give you a very quick update on the garden today as things do seem to be coming along nicely but in looking at the photos to post it struck me that there is maybe a topic I could talk about that might be of help to […]
