It may not be straight from the gardeners handbook, but today we fashioned a mini greenhouse for our raised bed using an old shower door.
The glass door is simply propped up with a few wooden stakes and, hopefully, will allow our lettuces to grow even quicker than they have been.
We won't need our greenhouse to be up the whole time, in general it has been much warmer recently. However, this is just another bow in our quiver and gives us a little extra control over the temperature.
What our Heath Robinsonesq addition to the bed means is that, as the temperature drops in the coming weeks and into the winter, we will be able to add our glass top and grow for much longer - at least that's the theory!
The Shower door itself came from our MD. He's moving house and hates to throw anything out, so we thought we could at least recyle this for him!
UPDATE - The green shoots are still shooting upwards, it won't be much longer before we'll need to get our hands dirty and space them out a little (and not long after that we should be able to harvest a few baby leaves!!).
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