Showing posts with label custom-built temporary greenhouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label custom-built temporary greenhouse. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Inside the Greenhouse - First Batch


Here are some pictures from the inside of our greenhouse, before we made our first delivery.

First batch (hardy vegetables & herbs) pre-sale.  Includes heirloom Waltham broccoli, Arcadia broccoli, heirloom Snowball cauliflower, Franklin hybrid brussels sprouts, heirloom Copenhagen Market cabbage, sweet basil, marigolds, Florence fennel, fernleaf dill, lemon basil, caraway, Tango hybrid celery, flat-leaf Italian parsley and tiny others that are not yet visible in this photo ... thyme, sweet marjoram, cilantro, sage and tarragon. 

This is the view from our dining room window - we have an oscillating fan secured to one of the 2x4s for air circulation.  My husband installed two screened air vents in the bottom of the greenhouse with flaps that can be opened & closed manually to regulate temperature.  We use the brick wall of the apartment for thermal mass.  Since installing the greenhouse, it is making a distinct difference in heating our home on cool days.  Besides being a micro-environment where we can grow our seedlings, the greenhouse made it unnecessary for us to turn on the furnace during the whole month of April, despite having only 2 or 3 days of full sun and a lot of cool, rainy weather.   

Heirloom Waltham broccoli seedlings

the automatic vent opener

citronella scented geranium

Pictures of greenhouse construction


Here are some pictures of the construction of our greenhouse.  It is a temporary structure.  Once the weather is warm enough, we will remove the plastic and use the frame as a support for vertical gardening of tomatoes & peppers. 
pre-greenhouse

framing the base

drilling the pocket holes
 
the finished exterior
 
the door

from the inside - that's our compost bin in the background.