Greenhouse II

So the greenhouse was assembled however due to being dense incomplete planning the fixing of the greenhouse to the slabs ended something like this:

As you may see there is a certain amount of "play" in the screw, not helped by the fact that you canna get to the head:

A view from above showing exactly why putting the screw in is hard! Anyhow application of a certain amount of brainpower and spare wood suggested that if I lift the base then I can put the screw in with a ratchet thingummy. Hey presto:

... and the screws are in, eight of them each around 80mm long - that greenhouse is going nowhere, no Wizard of Oz happening in our back garden:

Also the comment yesterday about the slab area being too small meant there was some 60-70mm of "negative ease" resolved here by filling the gap with sand to avoid drafts:

Anyhow, job done, time to install growbags & tomato plants:

We decided to "hang" the tomato plants rather than staking them, using a bowline knot one or two branches up the plant then connected to a sky hook (in this case a horizontal line across the greenhouse):

The idea being that the plant will wind around the string which will support it, shown below. Anyhow, 6 tomato plants went in, 3 "chadwick" and 3 "garden pearl." Room left for a couple more tomatoes and the chilli plants behind:

Not a moment too soon, or maybe several moments too late, as some of these already have fruit on. Job done, will see how these get on.

Self Assembly Greenhouse, Palram Mythos 6x6

One of the things we wanted having moved was to have a greenhouse in the garden. Had some hard standing installed last week:

This was carefully calculated to be not quite large enough to put a greenhouse on (oops!) Anyhow we ordered a greenhouse on amazon (!) which arrived yesterday morning, to noises like "how can you fit a greenhouse in this little box!"

Turns out the two packages are well within my limits for lifting i.e. I could carry the whole greenhouse. Cue substantial doubt. Anyhow the experts unpacked and checked off the parts list:

Turned out all parts present and correct. Anyhow base goes down:

WARNING WARNING advice for anyone building this greenhouse at this stage drill and screw now. Anyhow we did not do this. Also at this stage turns out that a 6-foot-square greenhouse is slightly larger than 6-foot by 6-foot but that is fine, will just overlap the slabs a little which we will fill later. Assistants busy assembling greenhouse:

Note fantastic weather and sunglasses in evidence. More pieces go on, weather starts to turn:

Now start the "glazing" process: makes the structure a little more sound, though subsequently turns out much adjustment was needed:

Feels like half way:

Turns out when they advise you to wear gloves to do this work, they have a point though the nuts are properly fiddly. Decided against, at this stage regretting choice:

Starting to look like a greenhouse then one instruction took like an hour - these triangle bits which only require you to hold 37 pieces at once, weather turns as does my mood:

Then time for a pit stop, getting greenhouse like:

This was the point where I finally drilled holes (easy) and tried to screw down (much harder) but got there in the end. Will be needing mole grips tomorrow to finish tightening screws. Anyway, window, door installed:

Took about 4 goes to get the door hung right since brain stopped working at instruction 48, anyway:

All done:

Has some nice bumpers installed now to avoid catching passers by on the sharp edges and catch rain, generally happy with this now. Loosened some of the bolts, shuffled panes around and re-tightened. Next job: fill with plants!