Greenhouses - The Indoor Way To Enjoy Your Gardening

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Greenhouses - The Indoor Way To Enjoy Your Gardening

Thursday, October 15th, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

Gardening is one of the best hobbies I know. You get all the exercise you need, and can tear up the health club card. There is always plenty to get on with to keep you fit; Digging, Weeding, and Pruning. It is also an unrivalled stress and tension reliever. Gardening in the fresh air keeps you healthy, makes you look younger, and extends your life.

Gardening as a hobby is available to everyone. With raised beds, even those in wheelchairs are able to plant, sow, and harvest their crops. Even if you cannot see well, then brightly coloured flowers with loads of scent will help. With a Greenhouse, you can enjoy the hobby all year round, and even in bad weather.

There is nothing as satisfying as eating a tomato or carrot which you have grown from seed. Think about the satisfaction of sinking your teeth into an apple picked from a tree that you have raised from a cutting. Although you can do these things without a greenhouse, having a greenhouse makes it so much easier. You will get even more satisfaction by building your own greenhouse

With a greenhouse you should have a pest and disease-free, controlled environment. Therefore, raising plants from seeds is much easier. It also permits you to grow exotic plants, melons and grapes that would normally not survive in cooler climates. With some planning, it will give you vegetables throughout the year.

Keeping a greenhouse free from pests and diseases is of the paramount importance. There is nothing worse that have a cucumber growing beautifully one day, looking forward to harvesting it in three days time, then coming back the next day to find it totally decimated by virus or mould. There are a number of simple preventative measures that will help you to avoid that bad experience with greenhouse problems. Remember, prevention is better than cure.

Keeping everything clean is your first line of defense. You should remove and burn any plant material that shows signs of damage, white mold or fungus. Don’t allow your tools to spread diseases to other plants. Always dip secateurs and other tools in disinfectant after using them on diseased plants. Many people think that the mold problem they have is endemic, when in fact it is often being spread by the very tools they are using to remove it.

Good ventilation will help prevent a great many of the problems.Humidity control is also greatly beneficial to controlling some greenhouse problems. Parasitic controls can be introduced to solve some pest problems.

When you have pests or deseases, try not to introduce harsh chemicals to cure them. The residue will last long after you have  cropped the infected plants and could cause illness. Always look for organic or biological controls. Many cures are totally safe to use, such as yellow sticky cards hung in the greenhouse to catch flying pests that are greatly attracted to them. A less messy way of curing white fly, however is to introduce biological control in the form of a parasitic wasp.

Don’t let all this talk of pests and diseases put you off greenhouse gardening. Most people who have greenhouses experience very little in the way of problems, and those they do have are minor enough to be easily cured with very little intervention.
You can even live with some pests rather than intervening, unless of course the maximum amount of cropping matters to you.