|
|
Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 21, 2012 10:04:58 GMT -5
After way too long using cobbled together seed starting set-ups in the house or in one of the hoophouses, we've finally begun putting up a propagation house for the production of seedlings. The footprint is 16' X 24'. This should work for us for a few years, I expect it to start feeling cramped and claustrophobic very quickly. One reason I've been holding out is that it isn't in the location or ideal setup I've been hoping for, but it is in the best spot we have now, attached to the only outbuilding we have that has electricity for running the inflation blower and vent fan etc. Ideally you would start doing this a little sooner before winter and the ground freezing up. But that's not how we roll here at Oxbow Farm. Still needs baseboards, an endwall with door, windbracing, and a skin. This is just the basic frame. All the tubing was bent here on the farm using our Lost Creek bender or the homemade bender I built to form the gothic peak bend.  |
|
|
|
Post by ottawagardener on Dec 21, 2012 10:39:26 GMT -5
I'm making one of these this year. Did you bend the pipes yourself?
|
|
|
|
Post by cortona on Dec 21, 2012 11:25:15 GMT -5
oxbow cn you show me the bender you build? have you any progect? i'm interested to build one mee too to build a gotic peack greenhouse
|
|
|
|
Post by ferdzy on Dec 21, 2012 11:37:15 GMT -5
Oo, nice!
|
|
|
|
Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 21, 2012 22:05:18 GMT -5
I did bend all the tubing.
I'm happy to show some pics of my benders cortona and give you explanations of what I did to build my homemade one.
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Dec 22, 2012 1:14:33 GMT -5
I'm impressed and envious.
|
|
|
|
Post by wolfcub on Dec 22, 2012 12:48:53 GMT -5
Very nice!
|
|
|
|
Post by circumspice on Dec 22, 2012 23:14:35 GMT -5
Freakin' AWESOME!  Beatin' the green-eyed monster back with a big stick!  |
|
|
|
Post by cortona on Dec 24, 2012 11:20:21 GMT -5
thanks oxbov, i like to build something similar but longer in hearly future...it looks really really nicer tan the tunnel ones!
|
|
|
|
Post by oxbowfarm on Jan 25, 2013 7:07:01 GMT -5
We've been slowly plugging along with this project and are getting down to the final stretch. Conditions have been really lousy for working on a metal greenhouse frame with temperatures hovering around 0deg F. The metal sucks the heat right out of your hand almost instantly.  |
|
|
|
Post by olddog on Jan 25, 2013 19:05:08 GMT -5
that greenhouse will be so nice and cozy for the seedlings you plant, compared to the 0 degrees outside, which i can hardly imagine.
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Jan 25, 2013 23:34:53 GMT -5
Just a thought: gloves?
|
|
|
|
Post by oxbowfarm on Jan 25, 2013 23:37:11 GMT -5
Can't get the plastic tight enough and wrassle with the wigglewire with gloves on. So I run inside a lot.
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Jan 26, 2013 2:14:10 GMT -5
Inside your toasty new greenhouse?
|
|
|
|
Post by 12540dumont on Jan 26, 2013 14:40:24 GMT -5
Part one. This is a welded gazebo that Leo purchased a few years ago at a second hand place. It's a hex shape. It takes 2 folks to take it down and put it up. It's fairly easily done. So this has lived in my front yard for about 4 years. When the sprout house died, Leo was casting about for another green house and we both eyed this and gave it the what if. More pictures later. We have taken it down and re-assembled it in the back. My poor neked front yard! So lonely looking. We had to site it somewhere close to water and electric, without too much shade. Which eliminated most of the places I wanted it. But Leo came up with an excellent idea. 2 brains are better than one. Attachments:
|
|
