posted by Catherine on Jun 7
Now is the perfect time of year to grow some summer fruit and vegetables in your greenhouse!
You don’t need a great big 12ft greenhouse to have some success in the vegetable department – you can make do with a small greenhouse in a sunny part of your garden.
Whether it’s for growing strawberries, small vegetables or even some fruit plants, you can get some seeds and small plants on the go inside your mini greenhouse.
How Do Plants Grow Inside?
Why do you need a greenhouse you may be asking – plants grow outside all the time? Well, many tasty fruits and vegetables grow (successfully) in warmer climates – so we need to mimic these conditions if we want to grow these plants without too many natural fertilisers!
I mean: where do bananas grow? In what countries are they growing blueberries? It isn’t the UK that’s for sure! So this is where a small greenhouse can help out.
By increasing the natural warmth of the sun, and trapping it inside a closed greenhouse – your plants can experience the conditions that they are naturally grown in – and will be very successful too!
You need to keep an eye on many potted plants, fruit and vegetables in a greenhouse though, as they can dry out quite quickly unless they are desert plants or plants used to drier conditions.
Huge Number Of Seedlings In A Small Greenhouse
Planning Your Greenhouses:
Why stop at 1 small greenhouse if you have a garden. Just because you can’t fit – or don’t want to fit a great big greenhouse in your garden – you might still easily be able to cater for 2 smaller ones at various places in your back yard.
You could have a shallow but tall little greenhouse against a sunny wall growing strawberries and blueberries – and a wider and lower greenhouse in a more sheltered location for growing herbs and tomatoes.
Perhaps the herbs are growing close your outdoor furniture so that you can smell them while you sit in the sunshine reading a good book – and maybe your salad plants could be growing near the kitchen so you could nip out while preparing lunch and grad a few leaves!
What’s The Adventure?
The adventure is in 4 parts really! The first is planning what you are going to grow, the second is planting everything up leading to the third: when the first shoots or fruits come out!
The fourth adventure of course is deciding how to eat your yummy new food! Will it be in a cool summer dish on the side of the plate? Will it be roasted as part of a warmer meal or steamed into a stew or soup?
And because small greenhouse are so compact and neat, you don’t even need your own garden – you could ask to put one on a balcony or in a neighbours garden if they allow. Everything it contained within these neat little structures so you don’t need to worry about getting mud everywhere and loads of wiggly worms!
I know you will enjoy it – I do!
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