It always takes us far too long to clean up the greenhouse after the growing season, and it turns into the first proper spring-clean job of the next year.

It’s not nice walking past all the dead tomato and pepper vines on the way to feed the chickens every day, and ultimately it’s always that that forces me out to get it done.

So today was the day, and what a difference it’s made. I always get a great sense of satisfaction from seeing the greenhouse cleaned up, swept out and ready for a new season of growing. The gravel-filled borders have been levelled off, the potting benches brushed down, the pots neatly stacked and all the fertilisers, slug killers and grass seed neatly arranged at one end of the bench. The compost from those empty pots, I’ve dug into the plot to enrich the soil.

I’ve salvaged the re-usable plant markers, re-wound what twine can be brought into use again this year and organised everything by size so that it’ll be easy to find just the right pot for each plant or seedling. I’ve also shaken out and neatly folded the potato bags, which I hate doing as they have a tendency to attract the slugs and snails.

All in all, though, a job well done and a sense of achievement. It’s good going into the new month with an organised greenhouse, as you can see from the pictures below.

The greenhouse as it was

The greenhouse as it is

Related posts:

1. Spring cleaning
2. Clearing out the greenhouse
3. Heating the greenhouse