Greenhouse building

Building the greenhouse took two of us just under two days and was relatively easy.
The first picture shows the rear and side frames built and the trench for the electric cable can also be seen. The gravel has the weed control underlaid.

One very useful tip for this particular set-up, not stated by manufacturers, is [...]

Greenhouse base preparation

The position of the greenhouse is convenient in our garden and fits a few of the conventional principles:

The ridge will be positioned east-west
It will not be overhung or under any future threat of anything overhanging
It has a nice open aspect

The nearby fences are not an issue. I intend to build a hedge at the rear as a windbreak. I [...]

Digging

Plenty of digging required for various purposes:

Turning over beds and borders that were remaining in place
Digging out a base for the greenhouse to lay flagstones
Creating a separate flagstone base for a large water butt
Moving soil from above areas and the rear of the garden, which is planned to be a hedge eventually
Using the excess soil, [...]

Gardening challenges ahead

Recently we decided that we had let our garden drift to a point where we wanted to make changes. This subsequently developed into reintroducing greenhouse gardening into our hobby. Then we cleared quite a bit of the garden to address a few issues, including:

Overgrown borders and some plants that were out of control and getting [...]

The Pleasure Of Gardening

Our garden is never going to be a model for paradise, but just somewhere pleasant to relax. Both my wife and I enjoy gardening or sitting reading or writing and watching birds, butterflies and wildlife.

There are many aspects of gardening that I find interesting but overall I’m very much in favour of letting things evolve [...]