Greenhouse Advice

Size a greenhouse heater by its floor and it comes out too small. The heat leaves through the walls and roof, which in a walk-in greenhouse add up to two to four times the floor, so the size you need follows the glazing and how much warmer than outside you want it. Settle the job first, work out the size from those two numbers, seal the gaps, and the running cost becomes a figure you can predict.

UK greenhouse year structured as 6 phases not 12 months — wake-up, planting out, growing, peak, wind-down, rest. Realistic month-by-month tasks for unheated greenhouse.

The honest annual maintenance schedule for a wooden greenhouse in UK conditions — re-treatment timing, polycarbonate care, vent service, decay timeline if you skip it.

Greenhouse staging and shelving — materials compared (aluminium, steel, wood), layout strategies for each NORDIC size, four mistakes that cost growers years of useful life.

What insulation methods actually work in a UK greenhouse, real heat-loss numbers, sensible heater choices, and a real winter case study.