Share more greenhouse set up tips for summer

The tomatoes and peppers are in and we are good to go!
Because we garden to make use of every bit of space, we have to flip the greenhouse around a couple of times a year to accommodate what we are growing.
Today we flip it to get the tomato plants and pepper plants in their final homes, the quadgrow pots self watering planters.

My greenhouse staging
Quadgrow planters

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[sandrascales]

I'm like you. Organised chaos! lol

[elainesmith]

Envy your beautiful greenhouse but what I envy more is the fact you can bend your knees with such ease!!! Lol
Lol x

[Oktopia]

I love being organized and efficient. I don't have a fancy setup like yours though. I have a small glass greenhouse, and two plastic ones, one bigger and one small. I like it this way. I'm proud to announce I have made my first-ever asparagus bed, my first ever pumpkin plant is in the ground too. My plans are slowly coming to fruition. Best feeling ever.

[GardenerScott]

That's an incredible amount of organization and effort but you make it look easy. Fantastic reformation!

[bethanskitchengarden]

Fab video Eli, it's always exciting when you swap the greenhouse into summer mode isn't it, if nothing else you know everything in there is staying put so less work, more enjoyment of the garden. Thanks for the plug at the end, muchly appreciated and sorry you had to leave your beer. Take care 😊

[Feelgoodgardens]

Fab update Eli ❤
Isn't it great when you can bring a table outdoors and garden or have a tudy up. Ive just removed our trestle table from the polytunnel to prepare for tomatos. Its surprising how time consuming a tidy up can be isnt it.
We also had a big bix for storing pots but its now outside gathering water. Nice to be tidy so you can find everything 👍

[ainegriffin]

Love how organised ye are. That’s what I’m aiming for this year. Greenhouse coming sat🤞. Think I have followed most of your tips 😂. ❤❤❤

[gardenaddict]

Trellis that's a gate... Genius 🤯🤗

[AnyKeyLady]

Love a good clear out and tidying up of pots after planting out! It's a bit of a release too knowing most of it it out and ready to go. Loved watching collab with Bethan. Those window films are great for filtering out strong light or giving privacy.

I wonder if anyone has used quadrows to grow sweetcorn in a grid?


Will the staging tables not fit behind the greenhouse or shed? I do love the secret storage area behind the shed.

We have two parallel back fences that the previous owners installed and filled fence high with bagged garden and household waste that we had to clear out into a skip! We couldn't use the compost as the bags had degraded and there were also a ton of those little morphine bottles and other medicine in there, as well as bike parts. We even found a mummified rat that we named Roger, bless him!

The space also had trees in there but 3 were dead and came out. We now store a mini shed and BBQ until we can think of what to do with the space. We did line the area with pallets and put down some spare roofing fabric so we could put a secret Wendy house in there. Our child is a bit too old for that now, plus now the pallets are deteriorating. The total area is about 7m wide x 3m deep. It has a dying conifer tree and a very tall lilac tree/ bush that needs a big trim. Not sure what to do with the area still. We need height of the trees for privacy of the commercial land at the back. I was thinking maybe a natural growing willow fence along the back and take out the dying tree? How big is your shed please? Would be nice to have an unit there of some sort but need to think of costs.

We have a weird shaped garden as our out door loo and workshop is connected by long conservatory windows and a flat roof, so it leaves us with what was a triangle shape that we are straighten out by moving the shingle area in but squaring it off to grow veg in, remove the old hilled landscaped area, flatten and create borders so we have a lawn. It has/ is taking some time as we work to the pace of our budget.

Anyway, take care!

[anna-karinhamberg-nqnv]

I also love to arrange/ rearrenge my greenhouse. I have a 12 m2 polycarbonate greenhouse. Right now I have the " winter/spring set up", here in Sweden its rather cold tho we have had fantastic springdays with a lot of sun. The greenhouse gets to about +20-25 celsius those days and the nights are about -5-10. My crops in the greenhouse right now are diferent lettuce and Pak Choi and they are doing great! Ofcourse i need to cover the plants at night, but I also have a heatmat to use if it gets very cold. Peace and love from Sweden ❤

[debyorkshirelass]

Fab vlog Eli ❤
I was in my local garden centre the other day with my partner I started chatting about you and your advice. He looked really confused and said who's Eli? I replied oh that's mother earth from YouTube 😂❤❤

[jennyjohnson]

I always call it the greenhouse shuffle! It's so satisfying when you sort it all out isn't it? Then you need to sit in the sun and have a glass of something nice!

[debbybrady]

I need to re-organize my shed! An enraged opossom got locked inside and demolished it. Boy, what a mess. My project for today.

[stacijones]

I love those pots quadgrow I wish they delivered th us

[dustyflats]

You know what this reminds me of—It’s MUCH harder to clean a small house than a large one! I know.
Glass can be harsh and I do like the polycarbonate panels even though they need replaced when they cloud, but they last a good while.
Off to deal with my mess 😅.

[paulblois]

I cannot wait to get my first greenhouse. I have got to wait for my 50th birthday next As ever, you are giving me lots of hints. Thanks

[skygazer]

Fun video as always. You two must have been knackered after all that.

[LoungeBarCrime]

I love all your explanations Eli, and bless Kate putting a sunscreen up for you - bless her. Can't you tell I'm just getting (well more) into gardening - as I've just retired. I think I'm watching every season of your video's, but thoroughly enjoying them.
I love all your forward planning.
One thing - what grass seed do you use, mine is very fine and I've used loads.

[cyndywaskelisthecrowscall]

Anyone else have the Tetris theme music playing in their heads as she was rearranging all the pots in the box o' pots? No? Just me? Okay... 😉

[alisonschooley]

Thank you for doing this, I am excited to get a greenhouse this fall and to hear your organization techniques and general management of things gives me great ideas to maximize a new space.