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Find out how to store apples
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Pear and Lemon Jam
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Making Apricot Jam
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Grow Your Own Chilli Peppers
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Dry Chilli Peppers
Find out how to dry fresh chilli peppers
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Make Lavender Biscuits
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Greenhouse Thermometer
Use a suitable max min thermometer to track temperatures in a greenhouse
Greenhouse Thermometer
greenhouse | building | grow your ownEven in the UK it is possible for a greenhouse to get much too hot (unless suitable greenhouse ventilation is used), and certainly too cold (if greenhouse heating is not used and delicate seedlings are planted during the winter months). A small but vital tool in the gardeners armoury is a suitable thermometer.
Greenhouse Thermometer
It is possible to buy so called greenhouse thermometers at garden centres and online, but any thermometer which meets certain conditions can be used. For use in a greenhouse a thermometer must have a temperature range down to -20 degrees Celcius, and up to at least +50 degrees Celcius; it needs to have maximum and minimum temperature measurement, and it needs to be splashproof.
Pictured above is a typical max min thermometer available for around £10. With a pair of calibrated mercury or alcohol columns, the thermometer displays the present temperature in addition to the lowest and highest temperatures recorded since the thermometer was last manually reset.
For a few pounds more, a digital inside outside thermometer such as the one pictured above can be used. This will show the current temperature in the greenhouse and outside in addition to recording the maximum and minimum temperatures both in the greenhouse and outside.
More advanced digital thermometers are available which also display humidity levels which is useful information, particularly with hydroponics.
Click here to view our new article on wireless thermometers.
Buy a Greenhouse Thermometer
Click here to buy a greenhouse thermometer now, or here to buy an indoor outdoor thermometer which can be used in greenhouse gardening.
Article Published: 10:23, 13th Jan 2011
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