A major incident was declared in Somerset on Tuesday evening after flooding affected around 50 properties. With more rain forecast later this week, a yellow rain warning remains in place for the South West on Thursday.

Over the past few months, Dianne and I from Growing Crazy have been spending a lot of time at Keder Greenhouses’ HQ, putting their display greenhouses through their paces and growing a wide range of crops across the seasons. Our goal has been simple: to see how these structures perform year-round and how effectively they can help extend the growing season, allowing us to keep harvesting fresh ingredients for as long as possible.

Keder Greenhouse is a UK-based designer, manufacturer, and installer of the strongest, most resilient greenhouses on the market, engineered as a complete premium growing system. Every Keder structure is purpose-built to endure the UK’s harsh and unpredictable weather while delivering consistent, high-performance growing conditions year-round.

With a Keder greenhouse, you get more time in the garden each year. It holds warmth, softens light, and keeps steady when the weather turns. That way, short gaps in the weather become longer months of growing potential.

Ensuring your plants are cared for in all conditions in the garden is key to confident greenhouse gardening. With the right routines, plant protection keeps growth steady through frost, wind, and pest pressure. A Keder greenhouse helps enormously. Robust, high-tensile frames stand firm in severe winds; whilst insulating, diffused cladding maintains steady temperatures and keeps light gentle on leaves.

Europe is heating up faster than anywhere else on Earth, in fact it is increasing at double the global average.

Protect your garden this autumn with expert tips from Keder Greenhouse. Prune, prepare soil, and safeguard plants with storm-proof solutions.

Use a simple four-year cycle. Start with legumes to fix nitrogen. Follow with brassicas, which use that nitrogen for leafy growth. Their strong roots loosen the ground, preparing it for potatoes the next year. Potato foliage helps suppress weeds. Then grow root crops like carrots and beetroot. Loop back by planting legumes where roots were, as they enjoy the loosened soil.

Steven from Growing Crazy is our new guest blogger. Steven is an award-winning specialist grower of Pelargoniums, with a passion for plants and a flair for creative displays who, in addition to recent gold medal wins at Blenheim Palace Flower Show and BBC Gardeners World Live, has also appeared on BBC Gardeners’ World.

A Keder Greenhouse is designed to withstand the harshest of weather, with a robust ZN35 high tensile steel frame and unique cladding developed in Germany. The cladding isn’t just strong - it also provides perfectly diffused light, creating the ideal environment for growing healthy crops.