Autumn is quickly approaching, and with the new season comes a brand new opportunity to utilise your greenhouse for the best possible effect. Contrary to popular belief, the usage of a greenhouse is a yearlong affair, and while summer is quickly ending (much to most people’s dismay) there’s always new produce to look forward to with the new season.
The protection a greenhouse provides lets you grow hardy crops all through the winter, as overnight temperatures in an unheated greenhouse are up to 5 degrees warmer than outside – ensuring your plants are kept frost free. Our guide can help you get the absolute most out of your greenhouse in Autumn, so dust off your greenhouse staging and find some empty pots – you’re in for a busy few months!
Autumn is the very best time for starting holiday plants like amaryllis by planting the bulbs inside of the greenhouse, and Christmas cacti can be force-bloomed with the utilisation of a greenhouse. Furthermore, the beauty of owning a greenhouse is that you can also use it to encourage and nurture household plants without cluttering up your windowframes.
Autumn is also the perfect time to pot up chives, parsley and mint and bring them into the greenhouse so they can grow large and strong throughout the winter. It always helps to have a few pots of these plants growing, so you can alternate harvests to have a near constant supply of these herbs for usage in household cooking.
As you’re looking at your greenhouse and trying to decide where to put what, no doubt you might look at your present potting solution and feel that the space you do have isn’t being used well enough.
In order to get the most out of your greenhouse in Autumn, it always helps to have a look at your greenhouse staging. Is your staging starting to show signs of wear, or looking a little unstable? It can be beneficial to invest in high quality heavy duty greenhouse staging in order to free up space as well as a more permanent solution to storage problems.
