Thanks to our friends James and Holly, our new greenhouse is basically done!
Here’s the interior:
And here’s the entire greenhouse from the side:
This greenhouse is from GreenhouseKits1.com, which gave us a great deal on this 24′ x 96′ greenhouse.
That means it’s 2,304 square feet, making it larger than most houses we’ve ever lived in. It will allow us to expand our nursery production and be ready for plant sales in the spring. We’ll be able to propagate lots of cassava, chaya, Tithonia diversifolia, mulberries, sweet potatoes and other good plants through the fall, winter and spring without worry of frost, giving us lots of stock that we can’t currently produce due to the occasional freezes that knock our more tender plants out for months of the year.
This project has been consuming a lot of our time lately. It’s a complicated and serious construction project requiring lots of drilling, screwing, stretching, flattening, hammering, and other building-related verbs. The kit is very solid and should take quite high winds without issue.
The next step is to figure out the irrigation for the interior, and to add the shade cloth. We also need to add water barrels to the inside for thermal mass.
I’ll post a video tour soon.
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Today’s musical interlude:
5 comments
I’m so happy for you and your family to have a greenhouse. There is mush potential when you have one. Congratulations
You pushed us over the edge. Thank you.
We built a greenhouse last winter (in Michigan, haha) and although I used soaker hoses this year, I’m trying to figure out a way to incorporate a rain water catchment for watering. I would love to know what you end up doing for your water.
I plan to have a well installed. Inside the greenhouse, I’ll probably put up some stand-pipes.
I’m definitely watching for the heating options you use! Of course I am 6a not 8 like you so they might not work for me.
Also the water system.. mine is a double 20 x 96 gutter connect. So rain collection is almost automatically built in. But there’s things to learn, and drought definitely calls for a backup source.