How To Keep Your Greenhouse Clean For Winter

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How To Keep Your Greenhouse Clean For Winter

Get Your Greenhouse Prepped For The Colder Months Ahead With These Handy Tips


Autumn and winter is a fantastic opportunity to maintain several garden tools and structures: water butts, sheds, tools, gutters and more. One of the most intimidating garden structures to keep tidy and clean is a greenhouse, with the larger sized ones being particularly daunting. However, keeping your greenhouse maintained is a great way to increase the amount of light being absorbed by your plants, increase the efficiency of your gardening, and bring you piece of mind. Another benefit to cleaning your greenhouse is that it gives you a chance to eliminate any dirt, moss, and pests before continuing planting.



De-Clutter

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One of the first tasks you should focus on before doing anything else is de-cluttering. Many of us will be the first to admit to hoarding items that we have the best intentions of using but knowing we probably never will. Old pots, broken containers, and expired plant food have a habit of sticking around, but it doesn’t mean we have to throw them away, many items can be recycled or reused to have another lease of life. Even if you can’t find a use for an item, it doesn’t mean that someone else wont, always consider giving away items to friends and family, with disposal being a very last resort.

If you have any plants currently inside of your greenhouse, now is the time to temporarily remove them. If you don’t have anywhere warmer to keep them for the time being you can cover them with a fleece.

Clean

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Removing extraneous items provides a chance to focus on cleaning not only the items used inside the greenhouse, but also the greenhouse itself. We always recommend using eco-friendly alternatives to bleach and most store-bought cleaners, these can either be products which have been designed to have little to no impact on the environment, or you can also make your own home-made cleaner using lemon and vinegar. Using harmful cleaning products can also cause damage to any plants you have in your greenhouse, or ones that you’re are hoping to add to it.

Start by cleaning any tools or items removed from the greenhouse, and then move on to the greenhouse itself. Depending entirely on where your greenhouse is situated, cleaning the outside glass can be one of the easiest or one of the hardest parts of the process. A sponge, bucket, and scouring brush will be your best friends during this stage! This process can be made easier by using a water butt in your garden, you can even add a hose to the water butt to speed up the process.

The interior of the greenhouse should be an altogether easier affair now that you have emptied all the items from inside it. Start from the top, as any detritus that falls can be cleaned once you get to the bottom.  

If your greenhouse has gutters, its vital that you remove any leaves and detritus from them, as these can easily build up and cause problems. The use of a Hedgehog gutter brush can help you clean the leaves out and prevent most leaves from settling in the first place. If you have a potting table or station, this can make the effort of cleaning and keeping your greenhouse organised much easier.



Organise

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If you like to keep all your tools, pots, etc. inside of your greenhouse, there are several ways you can keep them organised. A potting station or potting table can be a great place to store and organise your tools, or if you don’t have space inside your greenhouse you can place one outside. Attachable hooks can be a great way to store your watering can and other oft used tools in an easy to reach spot, try using overhead wires and pegs to keep your gloves on hand (no pun intended).

Utilise old jars and condiment containers to store your smaller tools and planting accessories, not only does this give you an almost limitless supply of storage containers, it is also eco-friendly.

Larger tools can be kept in portable storage containers to make it easy to transport, these have the added benefit of being able to be put in your car boot, so if you want to help relatives or friends with their gardens, you can easily do so. If you have multiple containers it’s easy to forget what is in each one, so label every container to make your life easier in the long run! Alternatively, you can dedicate an entire space to your tools, reserving the space inside your greenhouse purely for planting and growing.

Greenhouses are likely to produce waste so it’s imperative to have a convenient way to dispose of your waste to hand. A wheelbarrow, composting cart, or garden cart gives you the freedom to easily wheel your garden waste to your composter or wormery.

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