Greenhouse: Building a geodesic dome greenhouse, 0 by tropicalaria

tropicalaria wrote:
I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been on the site for a while. Sorry for the long hiatus. Once the really cold weather set in, the urgency to get the structure complete went away, since it was too late to use it this season.

In the end, we just used a tall ladder on the inside and leaned over to cover adjacent triangles. I modified the the above plan only that I removed the top triangle from the patch so that I could place a single pentagon in the top of the dome, overlapping each of the five patches, rather than have the five seams culminating in a point at the top.

The first step was the installation of the five patches around the top. I created a template by pinning a piece of tarp to the side and tracing out the struts. It was tricky since there is a center cut into the middle of the piece. Then I unrolled the plastic over the top of the template and cut it out along the lines, leaving plenty of overlap.