Has been a very busy year for propagating here for us. Its amazing just how many new plants you can grow from seed, division and cuttings. Seed sowing was a bit late this year as we wanted to start growing vegetables as well to help with the food bills and to eat our own healthy home grown produce.
As luck would have it, a friend had an old greenhouse they were never using and said we could have it for free if we dismantled and collected it ourselves. So armed with a few hand tools, a tin of WD40 and some newspaper to wrap all the old glass in, we eagerly set off.
As you can see it was quite overgrown and needed quite a lot of cleaning and tender loving care to restore it to its former glory.
We began by carefully removing all the old glass and carefully wrapping it in old newspaper to prevent cut fingers and damage to the glass when we moved it. We then began work on dismantling the frame. Some bolts were rusty and corroded but after spraying with WD40 and gentle unscrewing we soon had everything dismantled and ready to move to its new home.
As it was only a short journey we split the frame into sections, 2 sides, back and front and carried these home. The glass and roof section we put in the car to bring back. It was now time to wash and clean everything spotlessly to make reassembly much easier. After copious washing and scrubbing we had everything ready to begin the work of assembly.
I levelled of an area for the base to sit on. Then constructed a frame out of stout timber and checked everything once again for squareness and level. Its was an easy job assembling the frame, I left the bolts and nuts firm but not tight so we could check everything was aligned before tightening everything up for the final time.
We then inserted all the now clean and very sparkly glass into position, starting with the roof sections first then the sides, front and back. We had brought some extra clips, nuts and bolts from ebay so we had plenty to use. Always a good idea to use more clips to hold the glass in place so strong winds do not cause any panels to slip.
We have been extremely pleased with the results and have managed to grow very many beautiful plants already this season.
