If building your own greenhouse from a kit sounds daunting, don’t worry - it just got easier! There’s now no need to lift and balance heavy, fragile panels of glass. You can simply snap the greenhouse frame together and cover it with heavy duty polyethylene panels. Specially designed for the purpose, this modern polyethylene material will let in plenty of diffuse light, without as much trouble and maintenance as glass.

When you are advised that you can treat your greenhouse like an extra room of your house, somewhere to relax and get away from things, it gives you a good feeling - but there’s more. Like any room inside your house, your greenhouse needs to be kept clean, especially a glass greenhouse. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that no greenhouse is so perfect it can take care of itself. However, if you do make the effort to look after it well, you’ll find that it’s highly rewarding. Here are some helpful tips when cleaning your glass greenhouse.

Buying a greenhouse can represent a major investment. It’s something which requires careful thought. You need to consider not only what your needs are today, but also what they’re likely to be in years to come, and you need to balance your ambitions against your budget. Fortunately, the advent of the extendable greenhouse has made these decisions a lot easier.

When selecting the perfect greenhouse for your garden, it’s often tempting to opt for a greenhouse kit, especially if you’re trying to keep to a limited budget. Most greenhouse kits are designed to be as simple as possible to construct, with pre-drilled, lightweight components - but if you want to try something a bit more ambitious, designing a stone-set greenhouse could be the thing for you.

No matter how carefully you try to look after your greenhouse, sometimes you just won’t be able to be there. If you don’t have a family member, friend or neighbor who can look after your plants in your absence, you’ll need to consider technological ways of making sure they get what they need. During short absences it’s usually sufficient simply to make sure that your plants watered, and there are several ways of doing this.

Lean-to greenhouses are just about the simplest greenhouse designs on the market, easy to fit into your back yard and easy to assemble. However, if you want them to enjoy a long and trouble-free life, there are a few things you should know.