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.

Bransford Webbs Plant Company is a leading UK ornamental plant grower, renowned for producing premium nursery stock for garden centres nationwide. Operating across a highly developed production site, they continuously invest in modern growing environments to improve crop quality, ensure environmental control, and increase productivity.

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.

Healthy plants begin with ideal conditions. Light, warmth, and shelter are important parts of every leaf and flower taking shape. The material of your greenhouse sets that stage each day. Keder’s advanced cladding is designed to create a friendly, consistent environment where plants can simply get on with growing. Here is how it helps, and why other mainstream greenhouse materials struggle in the same situations.

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.

As Storm Floris sweeps across the UK with unseasonably strong winds, both Amber and Yellow National Severe Weather Warnings are now in place, bringing potential disruption and danger, especially to northern parts of the country.

Background Garry and Kate Coyle, avid vegetable growers on the West coast of Scotland, faced challenges with the high winds and storms common in their area. Observing their neighbours frequently replacing greenhouses and polytunnels, they opted for a more robust solution: a Keder Greenhouse.

“In my Keder greenhouses, even when it’s very windy, I can garden in my slippers!” So says South Uist crofter Murdo McKenzie. “With the Atlantic gales that batter us here, I was re-skinning my traditional polytunnel nearly every year. Now I have one Keder house for fruit, and another I call the nut house! I have also rebuilt my traditional tunnel with the Keder system and have had no trouble since.”

The motto for Sulby School on the Isle of Man is ‘learning is a great adventure’. The pupils enjoy experiencing plenty of outdoor life in the school’s extensive grounds, which include a wildlife area, a willow house and maze, a meadow garden, a large organic garden, traversing wall, amphitheatre, open fields….and a windproof school Keder Greenhouse!

Spire Nursery & Infant School in Chesterfield, Derbyshire took delivery of their Keder  School Greenhouse in 2008 and it has proved to be a highly popular addition to the activities at the school.