Tuesday, March 2, 2010

New Greenhouse!

Wait till you see my greenhouse! Paul built it (gotta love handyman husbands!) entirely from a mismatch of old windows that we picked up from the dump. I think it is pretty amazing and pretty darn cute too!

We started off by measuring out where the greenhouse was to be placed, then removed some raised beds that were in the way.


Then Paul framed the structure and began to put windows in place.


Slowly but surely it took shape. We decided to use greenhouse poly for the roof, mainly for safety reasons.


Then Paul built raised beds around the perimeter. Shelving was also built around the perimeter and down the middle. I will put cold tolerant greens in the beds now, then very soon all the shelves will be full of flats of seedlings. Once the seedlings have been transplanted out to the various gardens the raised beds will have tomatoes and other hothouse plants growing.


The end result a fully functional greenhouse with the potting area set up in the middle.


Bits and bobs essential in a potting area: seeds, plant labels, marker pens, gloves, water wand and floating row cover (to the left of the picture) on hand in case of a surprise frost.


The greenhouse even has a sliding door (yep, found at the dump), and I'm not sure if you can see the very cool driftwood handle.


My beautiful, funky, very cool greenhouse already hard at work! :o)