Kaz, I use a small fan heater if it becomes necessary as I overwinter all my fuschia and pelagoniums in my mini greenhouse. However, I haven't used it since I had the glazing replaced with double-walled polycarbonate. OK, I am in south Devon where it is usually quite mild, but the temperature never went below 5C in the greenhouse all last winter and it was mostly around 8C or 9C. I was very pleased
of course.
Gordon has an 8 x 6 polycarbonate greenhouse where he grows veggies for me - I really don't have much room in mine. Tonight I brought back a good harvest of red peppers, yellow peppers (grown from supermarket yellow pepper seeds!!) hot chilli peppers, a cucumber and 4 courgettes from one of his plants which is producing like a triffid
. I always think I've sown too many courgette plants, but end up with just two or three because the slugs and snails get the rest. This year mine aren't doing well, but the two of the four plants I gave Gordon survived and are fantastic. It's great fun growing your own veggies - and my freezer is crammed with frozen beans, tomatoes, courgettes and peppers. These are the veggies which are so expensive in Winter and makes the perseverance in spite of all the heartache of slug and snail damage in Spring worth it. Sorry to be rambling on, but when I get started on gardening - and veggie gardens in particular I could go on for hours!
Go for it Kaz - I find veggie gardening an extremely satisfying hobby and wish my small plot could be extended.
Tricia
PS I also sow seeds for all my summer plants, busy lizzies, lobelia etc., and save the seeds from year to year. I haven't bought seeds for summer flowers for years!