Greenhouse: High Tunnel- Roll-up Sides, 1 by CricketsGarden

CricketsGarden wrote:
i love my fan too. I bought the large industrial fan at home depot for $300.

ok let me get my brain in order.
Yes i think it is slightly warmer here where i am at. I am right on the border of 7a and 7b. North Alabama.

Yes sometimes i just weigh down the curtain with compost manure bags but its not fun moving them things all the time.
I wish I had shorter Greenhouses so I could do my curtains differantly. I may cut them in half the next time I change the poly in 3-4 yrs.
Ok here goes and hope it makes since.
The best way to operate a homemade curtain is to attach the bottom of the poly to pvc with duct tape and roll it up some to make sure the tape stays attached at all times. At the end of the pvc you put a T on it. You can use a 5 foot piece of REbar to hold the pvc curtain in place.
YOu just put the rebar through the T and put the ground end of the rebar into a Pipe that you insert in the ground. like the gavinized pipe used for the greenhouse perlin. When you are ready to raise the curtain---you just remove the rebar and roll it up---and its best to roll it under and not over . Rain sets up in the poly if you roll it over. Hope this makes since.
Mean while ----until i get the time and money to do this home made curtain ---I have just screwed 1x2s to the bottom of the greenhouse base to hold my curtain down until it starts getting too hot. then i will take the screws out, put my 1x2s up in the barn, and let my curtains up. I let my curtains up permanantly about April 15. I use rope to hold my curtain up.
When it rains, and the curtains are up, the rain coming off the top of the greenhouse pours into the greenhouse washing the soil off my seedlings/ plants. Sooooo---I just pull my pallets away from the wall of the greenhouse to keep my plants from washing away. Straight sided greenhouses are much nicer but more expensive.

Now how do you put the curtain on the side to begin with. We use 2x4s and the U brackets that you use for putting the perlin on with.
It deffinately takes two people to do this. And you have to have short pieces of 2x4 to join each 2x4 together.

If i didnt make sense---just ask me. I may have left out a few details.

Cricket