Putting Up A Second-Hand Greenhouse - Frame and Glazing
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- I'm honestly so excited to share this with you all. The second Greenhouse is up and looking great. We saved money by buying a second hand greenhouse that we took down and transported here. but putting up a second-hand frame is never easy!
It took a fair few hours to get this to this point, and more than once I regretted even starting this project. But it does create an incredible growing space for my plants, and will extend the season both early on and in the autumn and winter.
I'm really investing time in my infrastructure this year, with plans for huge compost bins, storage lean-to, wheelbarrow, raised beds, all to happen if I find enough time!
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That is a good investment for your food security. Structures here in Newfoundland have to be sturdy to withstand the very high winds we experience. I built a solar greenhouse, pole barn style, giving protection from the north with a solid, insulated wall and roof, with south roof and wall clear plastic. But your climate is more gentle! You reminded me of the time when , as a young man, I bought a second hand greenhouse. This was in Ontario, Canada. It was an eighty foot greenhouse built for growing tobacco seedlings. It was about thirty years old. Unfortunately the glass had become so brittle, I could only salvage enough to build a twelve foot greenhouse, but I did get quite a bit of decent lumber out of it.! Cheers Kev.
Yeah, we're lucky where when it comes to mainly mild weather. That said I used to rent a big field with a huge old greenhouse in. Apparently they had put the glass back in it but it all blew out in a storm. In our garden there are three giant oaks a little way off and they provide so much protection from storms, I think that's ilwhy I've never lost any glass to a storm here thankfully. Although sometimes I look out and worry about my polytunnel!
I'd love to build a wallpini really, a greenhouse dug in a bit, but our water table is so high in the winter it would be flooded half the year.
Good job getting it all done by yourself. It did look at one stage when you were fighting with the gable ends and side panel, that disaster was about to happen. A fantastic asset though, should prove to be really useful and productive. 👍
Yeah,there was one point where I thought I'd ruined the whole frame. Luckily that ridge is so tough it stood up to my mistake. I should have called my mate down to give me a hand for 15 minutes, would have been far easier.
Love your glass cutter
Also I can see that you’ve done this lark before as you started at the roof with the glass.
We have a bloody rat coming in before we have even planted anything
Aaarrrrgh
Mandy
To be fair with the glass you're supposed to do alternate sides as you glaze it. But with the ridge on this roof being so thick it was absolutely fine! But roof on first meant I could do some other bits without getting wet.
The rodent problem is always a nightmare. We have some here as well and because the garden has been open to do the grenehouse a rabbit has got in as well. Lost a load of perennial kale the other day to the fluffy butt's! I was very annoyed.
@@englishhomestead we had a group of 3 baby bunnies and they were destroying everything so I sacrificed an area of purple sprouting and used a mixture of rhubarb leaves in water and watered it on them and no more bunnies but then had to chuck the plants away
@@truthforall1303 how does that work with the liquid? Puts them off?
@@englishhomestead right you soak rhubarb torn leaves in water for 7 days keep it covered and wear gloves while handling as it’s poisonous and water it with a can not sprayer
Keep it away from anything that you will eat except for the area you are treating.
Nature does the rest no more pests
You get the idea!!!!