Winter project in progress

[Le Fakir]

Great job Darryl!!!
It's very interesting and useful pics of your greenhouse building process.
Can I ask you a few questions:
- What's the sizes of your greenhouse?
- What kind of wood are you using?
- how did you fix your greenhouse to the ground? just digged, or concrete foot? or??
- how are going to fix your plastic to be able to easily remove it during summer time?
- it looks like it's not the first one you're building up?


Thierry from France

ps: I'm the one who talked to you about Avonia and Astrophytum with purple flowers...

[CoronaCactus]

Bonjour Thierry,

Size = 20 x 40 feet

All the wood is just normal wood but we stain it with Thompsons water sealer. That's why it looks gold in color. Except the 2 x 6 baseboards, those are all pressure treated and not stained.

With this kit, we drove metal posts into the ground about 2.5 feet deep. Then we dug down only about 16-18 inches and poured concrete in. So part of the post is below the concrete and part is above.

The plastic is secured using 1.5 x 0.75 inch x 8 foot wood slats. You can see them on the other greenhouse next to it, then run horizontally the whole length. I screw them into the benchtop rails and at the bottom along the baseboards. I then later cut and roll up the sides for venting. Removing them is very easy, just unscrew the slats and pull off the plastic

This the 4th I've built, 2 small and 2 big. I'm a DIY kinda guy, I like working with my hands and creating stuff.

[CoronaCactus]

Here are a few links to the others,

I thought I had posted the build process of the other big one, but I guess not...
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Some recent photos with the plastic on it

This is the small one I built at our house.
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[Le Fakir]

Thank's for thses links !!! Quite interesting and usefull pics!!

Thierry

[CoronaCactus]

Your welcome, Thierry.

Some more progress... we're getting there!

2-13-11









2-21-11

[Le Fakir]

Thank's Carryl to keep us informed of your ongoing greenhouse!!

[CoronaCactus]

Were headed down the home stretch towards the checked flag!







50% shadecloth and new plastic sure is nice for good lighting

[Cactus Jack]

Hi Daryl , well done . I'm jealous of the space you have

[Devrim]

It's looking great Darryl
Having built it yourself must be a very nice satisfaction.
I have plans to buy a piece of land in the future (5 to 10 years), who knows, maybe I will try to build something like yours, but smaller. I need exactly the same structure as yours, shading in summer and rain protection in winter
For now, I'm playing with small seedlings and sowing more each year. Not much space needed...yet.

[CoronaCactus]

Thanks guys.
Yes, very gratifying building it myself. The upside: it looks and functions great. The downside: I know exactly where and how many (small) mistakes were made