Greenhouse

yes I wish they would put fewer seeds in a packet and reduce the price. I grow them for my daughter and daughter in law as well so I normally use half the pack one year and the other half the next. I find the germination rate is virtually the same. last year I grew Shirley and Roma - a plum type. I did very well with my cucumbers last year, must remember not to sow quite so many seeds this year!

Bubble wrap is an excellent idea and works very well I have 3 small greenhouses 4'6" x 7.0',6.0'x 6.0' and 8.0' x 6.0' All bubble wrapped.Because of the very high cost of heating none of them are heated.All the tender plants are put in the small gh and also covered with many layers of fleece. I was looking this morning and they have all survived the frosts so far.
I do have two electric propogaters in the spare room because I like to give seeds a good start in life.
My personal peference is for the tomato "Shirley" which I have found to be the best flavoured,other people have other ideas.I always sow the seed on 8-10 March and grow them on on the window sill.When they go out in the cold gh I always have fleece readily available in case of frosf(they will have been well hardened off).Outdoor tomatoes are sown on 26th April
Runner Beans have always been planted on or about the 10th may in individual cells on the sill but not started in the proporgater.My personal preference here is for Prizewinner it has never let me down in 50 years of gardening.I have also selected the longest beans and saved the seed so they will not deterioate over the years they do in fact improve
I do mark up a wall calander every Jan so that nothing is forgotten

Good - this thread has woken up!
I always grow toms but I don't do seed any more, because I end up with 40 plants when I want 10 to fit in the gh.
I get plants when they come in, early - a couple - and then more, but different kinds and with the time spread out, so that I don't get all the toms ripe at once!

I like the big beef ones, but they don't grow quite as well. my daughter likes the little titchy salad ones.
I do cucumbers too, and like the lemon apple ones, they are different!
I put runner beans in a box to start with and plant out later....hoping I can time it right, every year.

The house is full of heuchera cuttings, as I let them all get too wet outside, and had to take the tops and replant them.......the roots rotted. Most of them are growing though.

I'll try that again "when do others sow their Tom seeds"

Spent a bit of time in the greenhouse this week. I've got some herbs in pots that I put in there for the winter, tarragon & lemon verbena and they are both looking good with new growth - hooray!! A few other bits and pieces that I stuck in pots at the end of the summer are showing some signs of sprouting as well. Have replaced earth where the toms were last year and that is ready to put new plants in. I want to sow my tomato seed earlier than last year as I was a bit late. When do other sow there Tom seeds and what variety do you plant?

At the moment the greenhouse is empty, I moved the remaining plants to my passage at the side of the house for the winter, and so far they're ok (I think).

Can't now get the greenhouse roof off!
The green net did work fairly well, actually. and the lilac next door has grown quite a bit, hope she doesn't cut it back again.
Sounds like bubble wrap is the best idea, but how to fasten it on the metal frame?

we removed the glass from the roof of greenhouse, cleaned it and before we replaced it we painted the roof, so much easier than trying to do it from the outside. We intend to insulate it with bubble wrap. Found this very successful in the past.