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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 26, 2013 14:59:05 GMT -5
Okay here's the first part. We purchased 2 ag tarps and put one on the inside and one on the outside, folding them back in front of the doorway. We still have to put on the roof, floor and door. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 26, 2013 15:02:27 GMT -5
The tarps are held on with easy to use ball bungies. The Ag tarp is UV stabilized and has nice woven anti tear mesh. In the summer I plan to take down the walls and put up shade cloth if I need to. The hold up now is the floor. Leo wants drain rock and railroad ties. I want brick. There's points for and against each argument. We all know, Leo will get whatever he wants. He's weighing the arguments while going to the dumps to get rid of our tree pruning of last weekend. In my defense, we already own the brick and I thought it would get solar gain during the day, releasing in the evening. We even had a second thought that this little gazebo would make an awesome summer shower. Leo's argument for drain rock and railroad ties. Attachments:
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jan 26, 2013 21:43:03 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 27, 2013 18:49:11 GMT -5
Okay so here's the floor. Rocks, rail road ties and bricks. The rocks/ties are where the path will be. Where the bricks are we will put benches. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 27, 2013 18:58:52 GMT -5
We had to wrap the top and the sharp corners of the roof with bubble wrap and duck tape. Leo's only worry...I raised the floor just enough for him to bump his head when he comes in. Okay, I guess the floor should have been made first, but as eventually Leo's going to put the farm road through here, it's really not an issue. We may even relocate it next season. Everything except the tarps were here on hand at the farm. Leo did spend 20 smackers on rock. I spent 200 on tarps and ball bungies. So $220 for a new sprout house is not bad. The project took 8 hours altogether. Leo's going to rig up a light for the inside and tomorrow I'll work on the benches. By next week, she should be jam packed with Dar's & Tim's tomatoes, Joseph's TPS, more onions, brocs, cauli etc. Attachments:
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Post by bunkie on Jan 28, 2013 10:27:43 GMT -5
looking good holly!
so is yours oxbow!
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Post by wolfcub on Jan 28, 2013 11:21:29 GMT -5
Very nice Holly and Leo job well done!!
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Post by hotwired on Jan 30, 2013 17:11:07 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. I hate winters out my way in NY I built a few hoophouses out of 10'x20' portable carports. I bought 4 of them for $125 each on Black Friday. I use one for hardening, and one for greenhouse overflow. I put two together for a 10'x40' row cover, and built two 40' long raised beds inside for pruned single vine tomatoes. I do all my propagation in my heated 50F greenhouse and use electric blankets for heat mats. I get 7 trays per blanket. I can relate to home-built pipe benders. I'm a master Jury-Rigger myself. Nice job, Hotwired Juryrigger's Guide to Propagation |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jan 30, 2013 18:40:24 GMT -5
I hate winters out my way in NY I built a few hoophouses out of 10'x20' portable carports. I bought 4 of them for $125 each on Black Friday. I use one for hardening, and one for greenhouse overflow. I put two together for a 10'x40' row cover, and built two 40' long raised beds inside for pruned single vine tomatoes. I do all my propagation in my heated 50F greenhouse and use electric blankets for heat mats. I get 7 trays per blanket. I can relate to home-built pipe benders. I'm a master Jury-Rigger myself. Nice job, Hotwired Juryrigger's Guide to PropagationHi Hotwired, you and I are basically out the same way with the same weather. We sell almost all our produce in Ithaca. Interesting idea with the electric blankets, I'm going to have to pick one up to have on hand for emergencies. We basically have gone to using horse manure hotbeds for bottom heating our seedlings. Its a bit less controlled, but it isn't tied to the grid. I have very little confidence in the response time of NYSEG anymore. I like your carport hoophouses, what size is the tubing? If its 1.375" you can very easily strengthen them with a little windbracing made of .5" EMT and some chainlink fence brace bands. The ones from Lowes are OK but if you ever go to Penn Yan you can get real greenhouse bands at Sauders Produce which are much beefier and better galvanized AND cheaper. |
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Post by hotwired on Jan 30, 2013 18:58:56 GMT -5
We sell almost all our produce in Ithaca. If you sell at our Ithaca Farmer's Market, I might recognize you. We just had our World Rutabaga Curling championships. I raise strawberries, and Ithaca is the "granola" capital of the world. Anything organic sells out here. |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jan 30, 2013 19:10:46 GMT -5
If you sell at our Ithaca Farmer's Market, I might recognize you. We just had our World Rutabaga Curling championships. I raise strawberries, and Ithaca is the "granola" capital of the world. Anything organic sells out here. We were selling at the Curl, that was a wicked cold day this year. I raise strawberries, and Ithaca is the "granola" capital of the world. Anything organic sells out here. I wish that was actually true. |
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Post by steev on Jan 30, 2013 23:14:48 GMT -5
Sorry to disabuse you, hotwired, but California is granola capital of the world; it's all fruits, nuts, and flakes, here. We Natives love it so. So entertaining!
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Post by oxbowfarm on Feb 5, 2013 15:28:25 GMT -5
 Least she's inflated. Not the tightest stretching job, but I had to do it solo, even though I promised myself I'd never do that again, but they were calling for a dead calm day. I couldn't pass it up. If I had to do it over again I wouldn't attach it to the shed this way, it made attaching the plastic hugely more complicated. |
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 5, 2013 16:10:10 GMT -5
Wee! Is it going to be heated?
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