I did have a lot of fun with the greenhouse but it does take a lot of hard work keeping it clean both inside and outside and all that watering too.  I grew all sorts of things in there and even sweet corn (don’t know why I took that photo at night) and it was a great place to overwinter any tender things and keep the cuttings ans seedlings.  Tomatoes used to take up one entire side.  It had an automatic window on the roof and the smaller birds would be able to get in and potter about catching spiders but couldn’t find their way out again and it was really sad to come across their little bodies the next day so we tried putting netting over it and that worked.  I remember once going in and getting slapped in the face with a cold, wet slug dangling from the roof by it’s sticky thread.  One other time a wasp manged to free itself from the sticky yellow paper traps and it landed in my hair – I freaked out because it was getting more and more tangled in my hair as it struggled to get out.  In the early years the greenhouse got quite a bit of sun as it passed over, almost all morning  until just after lunchtime (you see all that blue sky to the left and behind it) but our neighbour decided to grow large shrubs and we just got more and more shade in that area.  That, along with the trees in the golf course getting taller and spreading out more over the back of our garden was depleting the amount of sunshine getting to the greenhouse and the vegetable gardens so we changed the furthest away veg plot to a small woodland area with shade loving plants.  Later as my shoulders became more troublesome I decided that I no longer wanted the greenhouse and vegetable gardens so we gave the greenhouse away to  Duddingston Conservation Society and it is now in their paddock area getting well used.   Hmmm what to do with that area now then?  I think I will make a stumpery said I.

now at Duddingston Conservation Society