Advice on building a greenhouse please!
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:05 pm
OK I can't wait another winter without a greenhouse, everyone down the allotment has huge plants from their greenhouses and we have tiny ones and windowsill creeking under the weight!
The garden is quite small but we think we can do 6' x 6' (which is the statutory 2' bigger than we think we need!). There are some bargins to be had out there now so found a good deal...but...
the only thing holding us up the the constant indecision about the base.
The 'site' is currently flatish grass. We don't intend planting in the soil, it's mainly for warm shelf space to bring on plants for the allotment until they are plantable size/frost danger is gone.
It will be a big task to lay a concrete base (the ground is rock hard clay right now). Can we simply anchor the base to the soil?
If thats a really silly idea what will be the simplist (least backbreaking/timeconsuming/money consuming) If I lay slabs do they have to be concreted in or will it work of they are on a bed of sand, therby helping drainage?
Hopefully someone out there has done this!
The garden is quite small but we think we can do 6' x 6' (which is the statutory 2' bigger than we think we need!). There are some bargins to be had out there now so found a good deal...but...
the only thing holding us up the the constant indecision about the base.
The 'site' is currently flatish grass. We don't intend planting in the soil, it's mainly for warm shelf space to bring on plants for the allotment until they are plantable size/frost danger is gone.
It will be a big task to lay a concrete base (the ground is rock hard clay right now). Can we simply anchor the base to the soil?
If thats a really silly idea what will be the simplist (least backbreaking/timeconsuming/money consuming) If I lay slabs do they have to be concreted in or will it work of they are on a bed of sand, therby helping drainage?
Hopefully someone out there has done this!
