{"id":427,"date":"2010-05-05T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:32:58","slug":"garden-growbag-bargain-or-so-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/garden-growbag-bargain-or-so-i-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Growbag Bargain – Or So I Thought<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garden Project 2010 – Number One<\/h2>\n

One of the girls has been doing allotmenteering at school this year, and has developed a healthy interest in all things home-grown.\u00a0 Keen to reinforce this and to build on the wonderful appreciation of our garden-grown strawberries (all 6 of them<\/em>) last year, we’ve invested in a few small self-sufficiency projects.<\/p>\n

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  1. Improved strawberry growing<\/strong>. I’m not saying how this has been achieved. It’s a secret from the kids.<\/li>\n
  2. A raspberry plant<\/strong>. I bought one last year but a neighbourhood idiot uprooted the “sticks<\/em>” from the embankment in front of our house and threw them into the canal.\u00a0 This time they’re in the back garden!<\/li>\n
  3. A growing house for tomatoes<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is what this blog entry is about.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Tomato House<\/h2>\n

    In an attack of bargain-hunting that orange fraudster David Dickinson would be proud of, my Other Half snapped up a steel-and-plastic mini-greenhouse for about \u00a37.\u00a0 “Excellent!<\/em>” we thought.\u00a0 Over the weekend I took the bits out of the box and realised that, while a very good idea and no doubt excellent for tomatoes, the weather-proofyness of said greenhouse was less than ideal for the foothills of the Pennines.<\/p>\n

    So, down to B&Q I went and spent \u00a325 on materials to build a suitably stable base for our \u00a37 greenhouse.\u00a0 Brilliant.<\/p>\n

    An hour or two later, with blistered office-worker hands thanks to my battery failing on the power drill, I chocked up the base so it was level and attached the uprights of the greenhouse to the shed.\u00a0 Now the thing will only blow away if the shed blows away too – and the bikes should stop that happening!<\/p>\n\n\t\t