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On The Ledge

Episode 247: choosing a greenhouse

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Planning your dream greenhouse? I get top tips and advice from houseplant expert Raffaelle Di Lallo and Emma O'Neill from Garden Organic. 

For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/greenhouses

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to On the Ledge Hodcast. No, that's a building podcast, surely. It's on the ledge podcast. It's about houseplants.

0:25.9

What more could I say? In this week's show, we're going off the ledge and into the greenhouse.

0:35.9

I find out all about how to plan and set up your very first

0:42.1

planty place under glass. Once you've been growing plants for a while, inevitably your mind

0:52.7

turns to the possibility of finding more space

0:56.5

for your collection. And if you're lucky enough to have any outdoor space, that might well involve

1:03.1

a greenhouse. Now in episode 166, I took a look at IKEA greenhouse cabinets,

1:09.9

greenhouses that you can have inside. But in this week's show, I'm took a look at IKEA greenhouse cabinets, greenhouses that you can have inside. But in this

1:12.5

week's show, I'm taking a look at outdoor greenhouses with two people who are pretty well versed

1:20.3

in how these work. Finding out all kinds of essential stuff like how to choose a greenhouse,

1:26.7

where to put it, how to get it set up,

1:29.6

and how it differs from growing indoors, which let me tell you is quite a lot.

1:36.0

And guest number one is Rafael Delallo.

1:39.3

Rafael Delallo's been on the show a few times now, I'd probably class him as a regular guest.

1:45.5

He is behind Ohio Tropics, the popular houseplant account, and the author of Houseplant

1:52.4

book Houseplant Warrior. And in the last year, Raphael has joined the ranks of greenhouse owners.

2:00.8

So I got him on the line to find out more

2:03.9

about his own setup and to highlight some of the potential pitfalls.

2:09.6

Hi, I'm Raphael DeLalo. I'm the founder of Ohio Tropics, and my backgrounds in engineering,

2:16.3

but I quit my corporate job last year to focus on my blog,

2:20.8

Ohio tropics.com, full time. So that's what I do for a living now. What a wonderful life that must be.

2:27.5

And I guess an engineering background might be quite handy when it comes to starting a greenhouse.

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