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Charles Miller in The transparent shed

May 15, 2016

Courgettes v marrows

Only a week ago, I planted several lots of seeds from the bumper pack I bought back in January: courgettes, marrows and onions. I hope I’m not too late to be starting now (like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman).

I am hugely impressed with the courgettes:

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

May 7, 2016

Getting out into the sun

It’s May 7th, the sun is out, and it’s hot too.

Last weekend, I did a bit of ‘landscaping’ around my greenhouse. Well, I built a little path to the door and turned a small square around it that wasn’t quite lawn or flowerbed, into flowerbed. This was thanks…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jan 30, 2016

The caulis are coming

Yesterday my eye was drawn to the window by a sudden bright light in the garden. The sun had come out on January 30th.

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jan 22, 2016

Cutting those geraniums down to size

Many of the plants that I inherited from my mother are geraniums. But they were lanky — with long featureless stems leading to the odd flower or leaf at the top. They looked like creatures from a planet with low gravity.

Fortunately, my mother-in-law knows about…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jan 23, 2016

The mysterious allure of gardening

I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with my greenhouse — although others might. But I have to admit that in…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jan 22, 2016

Where’s that greenhouse effect?

I know that conditions in a greenhouse in South West London in early May aren’t exactly like the tropical rainforest. But I thought my new greenhouse might at least grow things as well as they grow on the window-sill in the kitchen. Not so far.

Here is my first crop…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jan 22, 2016

Constructive decomposition: never buy fertiliser again

In line with my make-do-and-mend policy, I was hoping to make use of the compost heap I’ve been accumulating at the end of the garden over the past few years. Wouldn’t it be satisfactory if that could provide new plants in my…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jun 28, 2015

And here it is

The man came yesterday afternoon and put it together. By the time I got home, it was done.

I suppose I could have done it myself, but there are stories online about it being a mind-boggling puzzle. Even the greenhouse company said it would take me two days. They have a list…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jan 23, 2016

A quest for shelf-improvement

So far, buying the greenhouse has been a bit of an extravagance. As well as the greenhouse itself, there was the cost of building a concrete base, and paying someone to assemble it.

But from now on it’s going to be re-use and recycle — in other words, a return to my usual…

Charles Miller in The transparent shed

Jun 15, 2015

A greenhouse in the making

I don’t have a greenhouse yet. But I’m getting one, and the process started this week. An old fence was replaced with a new one, and a concrete base for the greenhouse was built alongside it by three chaps who spent a day on the fence and the greenhouse base.