Post by shadowwalker on Apr 7, 2007 22:18:35 GMT -5
After freaking out at the price of a real greenhouse. I went on the web and researched the heck out of it.
I ended up with a hoopstyle. I got a bender off Ebay. The builder had instructions and I modified other ideas off the web. My next problem was the site. It was on a hill. The cost to level was over $5,000. Way over budget. I checked out the rise and fall of the sun. I built the greenhouse going up and down the hill. I had to build the plant tables with odd sized legs to get them level. I ended up with a 21 foot x 50 foot greenhouse. I heat with a wood stove with propane backup. The wood heats it most of the night and the propane stove takes over for the few hours I am too lazy to get up and remake the fire. I section off the greenhouse so about 1/3 is where I start the seedlings in flats. For the first month or more. I The take the dividing plastic out and repot the plants in six packs, pots, ect. depending on what it is. I keep the seedlings for the produce garden in the flats.
My total cost of greenhouse, benches, wood stove, propane heater, weed blocking fabric, sunscreen for summer, is about $2600.00. I have been permitted for a second one beside the first one. So it's probably a go this summer for it.
I ended up with a hoopstyle. I got a bender off Ebay. The builder had instructions and I modified other ideas off the web. My next problem was the site. It was on a hill. The cost to level was over $5,000. Way over budget. I checked out the rise and fall of the sun. I built the greenhouse going up and down the hill. I had to build the plant tables with odd sized legs to get them level. I ended up with a 21 foot x 50 foot greenhouse. I heat with a wood stove with propane backup. The wood heats it most of the night and the propane stove takes over for the few hours I am too lazy to get up and remake the fire. I section off the greenhouse so about 1/3 is where I start the seedlings in flats. For the first month or more. I The take the dividing plastic out and repot the plants in six packs, pots, ect. depending on what it is. I keep the seedlings for the produce garden in the flats.
My total cost of greenhouse, benches, wood stove, propane heater, weed blocking fabric, sunscreen for summer, is about $2600.00. I have been permitted for a second one beside the first one. So it's probably a go this summer for it.
