Growing

Yes, with the right kit in the right spot. Many kits are written for indoor use, so check that yours allows a covered spot outside the house, then measure the greenhouse corner: it can get too hot, too cold or too dry for the kit’s stated range.

Start with a bush tomato, a compact pepper and a small sowing of salad leaves. Add a greenhouse cucumber only if you can give its climbing growth a proper support. Judge each plant by its mature size and its care, because small fruit doesn’t always mean a small plant.

An April sowing, one string and a steady watering can. The full UK method for greenhouse cucumbers, from all-female F1 varieties to the last fruit in October.

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The question of what to grow in a greenhouse in spring has a misleading answer on most of the web: a tidy list of crops pinned to month names. The...

By late August the calendar makes the call for you. The trusses near the top are still small and green, the light is dropping by a few minutes each evening,...

If you want salad leaves on the plate in January, the work happens in August. Sow your hardy leaves in August and September, while there is still light and warmth...

White powder on cucumber and courgette leaves looks like someone dusted them with flour, and the first instinct is usually to blame damp. That instinct gets powdery mildew on cucumbers...

Reach for the spray can and you will lose this fight. Greenhouse whitefly survive contact insecticides because two of their life stages, the egg and the non-feeding pupa, shrug them...

Most greenhouse trouble in a heatwave gets blamed on the watering can, so the fix feels obvious: hold off, dry things out, let the air move. Red spider mite turns...

When a tomato plant tells you something is wrong, it almost always names the cause itself. Curled leaves, a black sunken base, a split skin, hard green shoulders: each marking...

You can grow tomatoes against the south glass, cucumbers up a string and peppers in a pot beside the door, and watch all three flower like mad in July, and...