Welcome to Ashtead Park Garden Centre
Whether you are looking for a specific plant, ideas and inspiration, the tools for the job, or even a beautiful and unusual gift, we can help. We offer a huge range of quality plants and products for your garden, many of them just a bit different or special - like us (we are independent)!
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Shading the greenhouse
Put simply, if you don't shade the greenhouse, you will be severely limited in the things you can grow in it. Most annuals and potted flowering plants will bleach and scorch. Vegetables and fruits will overheat and rot. Compost in pots will cook a plant's roots. You should be OK with succulents and cacti, however. Paint on Coolglass shading, or erect green shade netting now.
One of the real skills of good vegetable growing is the ability to time the cycle of sowing, growing and harvesting so you always have a steady stream of goodies to pick fresh from your garden in Surrey.
It takes good planning and a few canny tricks to make sure you always have just the…
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