Greenhouse: My New Greenhouse, 0 by MollyMc

MollyMc wrote:
Well, the wind did blow like crazy. It ripped some of the ends off that we had stapled just until we could get the wood strip stapled to the bottoms. The sensored light kept coming on all night waking me up reminding me my green house was blowing in the wind.

I wasn't getting up in 35 degree weather in the middle of the night to fix that. In spite of my errors and the wind, the greenhouse still stayed 5 degrees warmer than outside of it.

So once the sun came up and I found some adequate clothes to wear for working in 39 degree weather, I went out, got the wood strips, nails, hammer and fingers ready for bashing. I ran out of the original strips and started using paint stir stick and shims.

I managed to secure much of the plastic before it got ripped to shreds. I still need to get some more strips of wood to finish. I don't know how long the plastic will last with 15 mph winds. Hopefully they won't last all winter.

Anyway, I tied my door plastic up to preserve it until I re-engineer that aspect. The side door out to the right seems fine with the overlapping plastic and letting it go as is. That's the east side and the winter winds generally come in from the North and Northwest.

My rain buckets are holding down the bottom edges until I get more wood stripping.