Grnhouse Show off your greenhouse.

ShadowMan

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
Getting ready as soon as the weather levels out to build another greenhouse with salvaged windows and glass. So far I've gathered up:

12 - 48"'x 72" double pane panel windows
9 - 36" x 84" double pane panel windows
2 - 36" x 36" double pane sliding glass windows
9 - 36" x 48" double pane sliding glass windows
2 - 36" x 60" double pane sliding glass windows

So now I just have to figure out how to configure everything to get the biggest bang for the buck. It has to be strong enough to deal with heavy snow falls we get here in the mountains, which can be up to 4-5 feet in one storm. I plan to garden year round in this greenhouse. I'm even considering making it big enough to also do Barrel-Ponics / Aquaponics in this new greenhouse.

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Below is an example of the salvaged window greenhouse I built at our place when we lived in Southern Colorado. I scored bunch of double pane sliding glass doors from a hotel remodel that a friend had scored. This build worked awesomely well. In the middle of a snow storm, cold as hell outside it was "T"shirt weather with tomatoes growing inside. :chg:
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So show off your greenhouse and share your ideas!!​
 
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AlaskaSue

AlaskaSue

North to the Future
Lovely! Really nice :) I miss my greenhouse but I do have a grow tent happening inside...maybe I'll get a pic for you tomorrow!
 
CapeCMom

CapeCMom

Veteran Member
I have a 16x32 poly tunnel. We got the frame through a trade and just had to build the ends and buy the cover. It’s not heated but I am working on paving the inside with patio brick. I have a friend who is a landscaper. When he pulls out an old patio he brings me the brick. It’s taken me a few years but the brick is about three quarters done and it’s been free. It also have made raised beds inside so I can plant in the ground. I pull up a chair this time of year and just enjoy the warmth and sunshine with a bit of music. Even when it’s 30 outside it’s a good 60 or more in there. Still gets too cold at night to even put my lettuce and kale seedlings inside but a couple more weeks I should be safe. I will try and find pictures of last years efforts.
 
hiwall

hiwall

Has No Life - Lives on TB
My greenhouse is carefully stored in the loft of my garage to be used when the end times arrive.
 
Vicki

Vicki

Girls With Guns Member
Love it Shadowman. That's what I want to do to my back deck. I also have the glass stored so maybe this year it will happen. I am going to attempt a cattle panel greenhouse come spring. I made several trellis's out of them last year and that worked very well. I'm thinking of building a base with 4x4's and 2x4's with cattle panels connected to the top of the base. Center support added as well to hold out the ends. It all sounds doable. I love the greenhouse I have already and am about to start working in there. Thanks for sharing.

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Jeff B.

Jeff B.

Don’t let the Piss Ants get you down…
Way cool... I don't have room here for a green house, but have hopes for our retirement place.

It's great looking at and reading about your efforts.

Jeff B.
 
ShadowMan

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
DennisD said:
Here's my hoop house after the recent ice storm (power out for nine days!).Remarkably, it popped back up, but many of the tubes are broken, much damage. A project for the spring,View attachment 255790
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I had a small hoop type greenhouse over a 3'x 8' raised bed garden on my deck, mostly to keep the squirrels out - they thought it was a salad bar :eek:.....but the last two snow storms (both 4 plus feet of snow) crushed that sucker flat. So I'm looking at various plans to take that into account. It will have to be seriously stout with a strong slope to the roof to shed the snow as it builds up.
 
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philkar

Veteran Member
Vicki said:
Love it Shadowman. That's what I want to do to my back deck. I also have the glass stored so maybe this year it will happen. I am going to attempt a cattle panel greenhouse come spring. I made several trellis's out of them last year and that worked very well. I'm thinking of building a base with 4x4's and 2x4's with cattle panels connected to the top of the base. Center support added as well to hold out the ends. It all sounds doable. I love the greenhouse I have already and am about to start working in there. Thanks for sharing.

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Vickie
I have a cattle panel greenhouse that functions very well for us. I use it only for seed starting and wintering over some plants. We made ours on wooden skids so that hubby can move it with the tractor if need be. We also use it to dry peanuts in the fall and harden off sweet potatoes. We have hardware cloth shelves for that. And last fall I used it for a couple of weeks to grow ducks that went in the pond once old enough!
 
dioptase

dioptase

Veteran Member
You guys are making me sick with envy. I used to have a small, rickety, (previous-owner) built-from-a-kit wooden greenhouse at our last house (some 20 years ago). I'd have to bang the door back into shape and replace a window or two every year, but I loved it. Here, there are a lot of trees and shade, and sunny areas are either hardscaped, too sloped to be useful (creek banks and hillside), or used for ornamentals and the small kitchen garden. If/when we ever move again, I'm going to demand another greenhouse.
 
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Displaced hillbilly

Veteran Member
We are going to see a greenhouse that’s for sale today. It’s 15x48 and is in good shape. Plastic in tact. The brand is Rimol. They want 800 for it. We are brand new to the greenhouse world.
 
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