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Vitavia– Auto-Vent Opener
With the changeable weather that most of Britain has been experiencing of late, it is difficult to maintain the optimum growing climate in a greenhouse. Rather than rushing out to your greenhouse to open the vents each time the sun appears, and then having to remember to close the vents to protect your plants from the chilly Spring evenings, we recommend using Vitavia auto-vent openers.
A clever but very straight forward invention, the auto-vent opener resembles a hydraulic arm, pushing the vent open and pulling it closed, all without human intervention. “How can this be?” we hear you cry! Within the arm of the auto-vent opener is a gel which expands with heat, forcing the arm to extend,which in turn opens the vent. As the temperature cools the gel contracts, the arm subsequently retracts and the vent closes. Simple yet very effective!
To prevent the great British weather giving you the run-around this Spring, an auto-vent opener is what you need.
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Vitavia– Beware of Frosty Spring Evenings
The start of Spring has brought some fantastic weather to many parts of the UK, but gardeners need to be careful of exposing young plants and seeds when the evenings are still pretty chilly. It’s at times like these that a greenhouse really comes into its own. Harbouring the heat from the beautiful Spring days is essential to stimulate early growth.
Vitavia hobby greenhouses are manufactured in a large variety of sizes and designs to suit every gardener. Widely available throughout an expanding network of garden centres and garden building specialists and a select number of website retailers, there is a Vitavia greenhouse to suit any budget.
Greenhouse starter kits are being promoted at this time of year for gardeners just embarking on the grow your own voyage and other deals are available for the larger models in the Vitavia greenhouse range, including free staging or occasionally a steel base.
There are benefits to be gained from buying a greenhouse at any time of the year but Spring is by far the most popular season. Stop Jack Frost hampering your green fingered exploits this Spring and get a greenhouse. Vitavia means ‘the way of life’ and you won’t regret introducing a Vitavia greenhouse into yours! |
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Vitavia– Listen to the expert!
We’re so proud of our quality hobby greenhouses that we thought we should put one to the ultimate test and submit it for scrutiny by none other than allotment guru John Harrison http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/1679/constructing-greenhouse/
John has blogged his assembly progress and has been very complimentary about the quality of our product. Despite not being ‘an engineering type’ John tackled his adult Meccano set head on and from the finished pictures it looks like he’s done a very good job.
UK Greenhouse Sales recommended a Vitavia Jupiter greenhouse to John Harrison, over other available greenhouse manufacturers, as they have found the Jupiter greenhouse to be one of the strongest on the market. John Harrison agrees “…most greenhouses flop about until the glass goes in and makes it solid, not this one – it’s like a rock already”.
The moral of this little tale is ‘listen to the expert’ and when looking for great value and a quality aluminium hobby greenhouse look no further than Vitavia! |
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Vitavia– Glazing Options.
So, you like the curves of the Saturn greenhouse, and quite fancy the attractive powder coated green finish. You have room for the largest model, the 11.5m2 (8ft x 14ft) Saturn 11500, and everybody knows a greenhouse can never be too big! However, have you considered which glazing option you might prefer?
With the Vitavia range of greenhouses you have a choice of three glazing options;
- Standard 3mm Horticultural Glass
- Toughened Safety 3mm Glass
- Polycarbonate – 4mm or 6mm twin wall
1). 3mm Horticultural glass is the standard glazing option for most hobby greenhouses. It is clear glass and is inexpensive. Widely available from most glaziers, in short pane sheets measuring 610mm x 610mm (24" x 24"). Unlike safety glass, when horticultural glass breaks it can result in dangerously sharp shards.
2). Toughened/tempered safety glass is more expensive than standard horticultural glass but having undergone a thermal toughening process (to British standard EN 12150-1) it can withstand greater pressures and if it does break it will shatter safely into hundreds of tiny beads. Being tougher, this glazing option has an added aesthetic advantage in that it can be produced in longer panes which fit the full height of the greenhouse frame, removing the need for connecting hooks or plastic strips which are required with shorter panes.
3). Available as 4mm or 6mm, twin walled polycarbonate is a strong, safe, light weight plastic material which provides good insulation. The disadvantages are it is opaque and slightly more expensive than standard glass. Already popular with the European market, especially Germany, its popularity is increasing in the UK.
Which will it be, the choice is yours! |
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Vitavia- Supporting the Suffolk Walking Festival.
In a slight departure from our usual weekly blog topics, we would like to tell you about the Suffolk Walking Festival of which we are very proud supporters. The annual festival will be running (walking!) from 29th May until 10th June 2012. Of particular interest this year is the festival Challenge Walk, from ‘Flatford to the Fens’ which involves walking 70 miles in 5 days from 20th to 24th May 2012.
The ‘challenge’ is the perfect way to discover Suffolk on a guided walk through Constable Country. Starting from Flatford you’ll visit Dedham, Nayland and Sudbury before continuing onto Long Melford, Lavenham, Bury St Edmunds, West Stow then Mildenhall. More details will be available soon from the Discover Suffolk website – www.discoversuffolk.org.uk
As a greenhouse manufacturer and wholesaler with head offices in Suffolk, we are very proud to be supporting this excellent event. Greenhouses are an integral part of the ‘grow your own’ philosophy which is gathering pace year on year. Grow your own is no longer simply a trend but a ‘way of life’ and rather fittingly the English translation of our Latin company name, ‘Vitavia’ (pronounced “vita-via”), is ‘the way of life’. Two of the key elements of growing your own are the promotion of a healthy balanced diet in conjunction with exercise, and it’s the promotion of exercise which brings us neatly back to our main reason for wanting to support the Suffolk Walking Festival Challenge Walk. Not too tenuous, we hope you agree!
If you live in this beautiful County keep a look out during May for the enthusiastic group striding out in ‘Vitavia’ t-shirts or even better, sign up to take the challenge! |
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