Permaculture Diary / Arhitecture / DIY GreenHouse (Part 1) ~ Early Spring 2017.
Hello my dear Steemians!
As I said, I'm starting to write our permaculture diary where I'll try to categorize every topic I'll write about. In this post I'll introduce you to our handmade GreenHouse.
As we wanted to have our Garden with most of the plants grown from our own seeds, we needed some place were the'll have enough Sun Energy and warmth until they are ready to be placed in the Garden so we've made this little (6 m2) GreenHouse for our seedlings.
It had to be quick and efficient job with little amount of money invested.
We succeed! This Greenhouse cost us about 70 USD in total.
For the counstruction we used pallets we already had and got for free.
In this project the permacultural 5th element (comunity) played a key roll because without help of my parents and my love @crokangaroo non of this would happen.
This is how it all started. We made 7 main frames for the GreenHouse.
Next thing to do was to make brakets for the shelves on which we will be placing strong metal wire mesh which will be holding our seedlings.
On every frame there are two brakets, one on each side.
Finishing touch for the frames is to smooth the edges so the foil don't get thorn up.
On one frame we made a window and on the other the door.
Now the frames are ready to be put together!
And I bought the foil for our GreenHouse. It's longer lasting UV protected one...
~ End of Part 1 ~
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Awesome job!
Thanks dear :D
Great!
I'm actually about to build my own greenhouse, but much smaller but the idea is there.
Gonna follow for part 2.
Cool, feel free to ask if something is poorly explained...we would like to make one geodome shaped...taht's a challenge :D
Great job! keen for the part 2. I love the sustainable approach while designing anything. :)
Thanks!
Nice green house :) why straw?
Thanks! It's a rised garden bed for late cultures that we can prolong their growth placing them inside of a greenhouse. The top cover of the soil in our garden is always the straw (or dry leaves) because it keeps the soil wet and it stops the wild plants from growing so we have less weeding.
Hmmm, thanks for info, will try straws to ;)
You're welcome! I'm glade to hear that :)