Built the greenhouse

[Stryker]

I finally got the chance to put the plastic on the greenhouse today. Last year I had the greenhouse on the deck and it was 8 feet wide by 8 feet long. Well it was too small with all of the plants, but they did well for last year. This year I used all of my cattle panels some 2 by 6 lumber and three sheets of plywood. The greenhouse is 27 feet long. What I did was made a rectangle that is 8 feet wide by 27 feet long. Then I put the cattle panels inside the wood rectangle and then overlapped them by one square. This helps with support. The next step was to ziptie the cattle pannels together. The panels are not connected to the lumber. After this was done I cut a sheet of plywood in half and connected each half to a whole sheet. I then put the 6 foot by 8 foot plywood against the arch and traced it then cut it out with a jig saw. This worked well. The cool part was that I put a slice down the 3/4 inch black pipe and put the pipe around the two ends of the greenhouse cattle panels. I then zip tied the pipe to the cattle panels. My five year old son helped me overlap two sheets of plastic over the greenhouse. He had fun climbing on the panels. I then sandwiched the plastic with lumber on the outside. For the inside of the greenhouse I sandwiched the plastic between the ends of the cattle panels and plywood wall. I then put a screw through the black pipe, plastic, and wall. This made the greenhouse very sturdy. I had to add two doors because it was getting hot in there. I then screwed four 3 foot long pipe to the wood frame for anchor supports. I used four of them in hopes that I will not be prying the greenhouse out of the neighbors house. 
Everything has screws in it so I can take it down at the end of May and use the cattle panels to support the tomatoes with. The end walls will be put in the garage for next year.
The total time it took to make was about 4 hours.





Picture of the screws in the pipe

[tuttimato]

That really turned out well and is certainly a big improvement from last year.  I don't think I could stand to take it down though.  Since you have such a short outdoor season,  even unheated, it seems it could be very useful for extending some things.  Great job.

[mhpgardener]

Nice job. Much bigger than last year for sure. I have a question though.. where are the trees?  Wow, that is some flat land ya got there. 

[Husker Wagon]

That really turned out well and is certainly a big improvement from last year.  I don't think I could stand to take it down though.  Since you have such a short outdoor season,  even unheated, it seems it could be very useful for extending some things.  Great job.

let me ditto what tuttimato said.   

[Stryker]

Thanks for the comments.

mhpgardener; I live on an old pasture and the only trees are the ones I planted. We moved here 7 years ago and all it was was grass and weeds. Now we have over 100 trees planted and hoping to get more. I think Paul Bunion took too may trees in North Dakota when he was clearing trees.

tuttimato; I would leave it but I am robbing from Paul to pay peter. Everything even the lumber I will need for the garden. From raised beds to tomato cages. I may have to think about it and just buy more cattle panels and lumber. I could put sweet potatoes in the tilled area. This would make the soil warm enough to hopefully get big ones. By the way those peppers and tomatoes you sent are growing great.

[Pjames]

Nice job. Much bigger than last year for sure. I have a question though.. where are the trees?  Wow, that is some flat land ya got there. 

Up there they almost consider a fence post a tree....

That being said, once I had that greenhouse up and operating, I'd use it as much as I could... I'd extend my growing season as much as I could.  If nothing else, I'd sit in there during the winter shivering and thinking about what I was going to do once growing season started...

[1tongarden]

Nice job. Much bigger than last year for sure. I have a question though.. where are the trees?  Wow, that is some flat land ya got there. 

Ya its pretty darn flat around here.I did never understand when i see new and old homes developments like josh's why they wouild build all them houses and not put at least 1 big tree in every yard for a shade tree ya know. Anyhow lookin good josh.. loookin good.

[Stryker]

The fence posts are around the orchard if that counts for trees.    The apple tree that you see is the largest one in the yard and that is the one I transplanted last year. Without trees the wind gets to blow hard. Today we had gusts as high as 43 mph. I am sure glad I anchored the greenhouse to the ground. Tomorrow I am going to put the plants in the greenhouse and see what happens. 

Forgot to add the picture

[snappybob]

I built a greenhouse very simular to what you have here. Mine is about 8 foot square. I also designed and built it to come apart for storage during the summer. This was my second season to use it to start my tomatoes and peppers. I grew out almost 200 seedlings in there this winter. My wife convinced me not to take it apart and store it in the off season. Her reasoning was that if I ever dismantled it I would probably never get around to putting it back up. She knows how lazy I am.

[bigboberta]

I built a greenhouse very simular to what you have here. Mine is about 8 foot square. I also designed and built it to come apart for storage during the summer. This was my second season to use it to start my tomatoes and peppers. I grew out almost 200 seedlings in there this winter. My wife convinced me not to take it apart and store it in the off season. Her reasoning was that if I ever dismantled it I would probably never get around to putting it back up. She knows how lazy I am.

Welcome to the forum snappybob.

Bob

[Stryker]

Snappybob, Welcome to the forum. That is a lot of tomato plants you are going to have. I am sure you will love the green house.