kitty's Journal

Oh Kitty that is a big job and an awful big area good luck with it.

i am not sure what i will do clara and i definately wont do it on my own.

Monty Don suggested making a "room" inside a greenhouse or tunnel by hanging the bubble wrap as a "wall" - he was planning to make the small insulated bit into a heated area so he didn't want to heat the whole thing!

hi hazel i was thinking of running the bubble wrap along the sides, i saw that about dividing it but i wont be heating it so dont know how it will work out

hazel how many sides of the greenhouse did you do in bubble wrap?

To be effective you need to make a cocoon of bubble wrap - so all sides covered. It is easiest to run the bubble wrap up and over in one continuous piece - you can hold it in place by putting strings along like a washing line. I would do the ends of the area by hanging some down like curtains. I don't think the little fixing things that come with the wrap will work on a tunnel as they go into the slots of the frame of the greenhouse. What you are trying to achieve is a little micro-climate inside the bubblewrap. It is surprising how much heat it will hold in even without having a heater in it. Any heat it gets during the day from the sun (yes, I know, What sun?) is retained and helps to prevent the frost rom getting in. If we get weather like last year you might think of putting even a few candles in holders in it at night!!! It takes very little to raise the temperature those vital few degrees!!!!

Kitty Hazels giving good advice there. I make a little 8x 8 room with a door in my greehouse and then bubblewrap it this insulates it better and also cuts down on heating when it need the frost guard fan. I squeeze all my more delicate plants into that space using shelving but I check them regularly for grey mould and pest and such like. Best just make a space big enough for what you need to cut down on cost.