Tips

We have lots of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers forming and growing in the greenhouse, but they desperately need more sunshine to help them ripen. The aubergines are growing in large pots have been moved outside so the bees and other pollinating insects can do their work and give me a better crop. The first tomatoes […]

Traditionally, July can be one of the hottest months of the summer but if the first few days of the month are anything to go by, that appears unlikely. We have enjoyed our first Little Gem lettuce and cucumbers. All the tomatoes are in fruit and flower, as are the sweet peppers and the pot […]

To describe April weather as unpredictable is a massive understatement, so let’s take a quick look as some of the old folklore sayings about it. April showers make lanes boggy April rain is good for hay and corn Thunder in April – floods in May If it rains on Easter Day    There shall be good […]

February sees the start of the work rate increasing in the greenhouse in anticipation of those warm, frost-free days when we can plant our vegetables out in the garden. As the days lengthen the warmth in the greenhouse will be increasing, and so too is the need to slowly increase the rate of watering, but […]

My greenhouse looks twice its normal size now that the tomato, aubergine and pepper plants have been removed – and what a brilliant season it has been for all three. As I write this at the end of October, I am still picking sweet peas in the garden and no sign of a frost yet. […]

02 September 2022 September is a crossroad month in the greenhouse – but it all depends on the weather By Linda Lane, Managing Director of Griffin Glasshouses It has been an interesting summer for fruit and vegetables in the greenhouse.  Some people have had poor to moderate tomato crops and other are enjoying bumper harvests […]

Linda Lane is managing director of the family-owned and managed Griffin Glasshouses, now in its 53rd year.   She firmly believes that the British grow your own revolution continues to gather momentum and that the greenhouse is a key to success.  So, in between getting everything ready for the Griffin stand at next month’s Chelsea Flower […]

FOLLOW THE THREE W’S FOR A HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE GREENHOUSE IN AUGUST   Linda Lane, managing director of Griffin Glasshouses, gives her top tips for looking after the plants in your greenhouse in August. “Nobody can possibly predict the weather with the rapid spread of climate change making an absolute mockery of traditional weather lore.  […]