Would like to see Pics of your greenhouse, : )

Yes your gh looks great. What size is it and what do you plan to sell. Is this new to you or a new location. Anyway Good Luck. DonnaS

fantastic greenhouse raggins!

Tanarae,
Excellent design, did you design it yourself? Is that a fiberglass cover? I did the same thing with the benches, except I put the narrow benches towards the eves, I keep all orchids and bromeliads, and newly propagated plants on that shelf. Only draw back is I need a ladder, but the plants seem to love it up there as the heat rises and those guys like it warmer.
Rj

Hello Everone. Lipan is SW of Fort Worth Texas by about 45 miles. I plan on selling perennials and vines that are not locally available. I order most of my plants off the east coast but they are hardy here. This greenhouse is at my house in town which is a commercial/residential area and there are a couple other businesses there so I was allowed to put a business in there. It is also located in Granbury, Texas. My country house in Lipan is about 23 miles away. I have 17 acres there where I will hold most of my inventory. I cant wait to open and that should be March 15th. I should be ready by then. Tanarae

rjharrison, I pulled the design off the internet for free as a set of plans for a storage building then just built the frame with a few adjustments of my own and put the corugated panels on it for a cover. I just love it. I think the upper level of benches might be great for seed starting too in early spring before the heat gets us here. It will get lots of shade from some large trees in the yard during the heat of the summer so I think it will work well. I wish I knew enough to grow orchids. I barely get by on my perennials and vines. LOL Tanarae

Hi all,
Last time I posted I thought I'd finish the greenhouse in a couple weeks. Didn't have time to work on it, so a couple months later here is what I ended up with. 12X16, 8mm twinwall polycarbonate cover. It needs some paint on the trim and knee wall, but the finishing touches and benches will have to wait for spring :). There are a few more pic in the link below. As spring gets closer, I'll have lots of questions about container growing..lol.

http://www.myhudsonplace.com/greenhouse.html

Dave

Dave it looks great!
Perfect design and nicely put together.
I love the shots on your site too!
Is that Garden Window a kit or your design?
We're going to be doing the same thing.
Ric

Hi Ric,
I did the install myself and bought it at Home Depot, made by American Craftsman. It comes in one complete unit, very heavy. It lets a lot of light in the kitchen. The window unit cost me around $800.
Dave

Great job, Dave! How are you going to heat it and when?
:) Donna

Thanks Donna :). I haven't thought too much about the heat yet. I'm looking to only use it from mid March to November. For the spring I was thinking a row of 55 gl black plastic barrels with a table top on them for early plants and maybe an electric heater to help out. I was also concidering adding a second lower plastic ceiling to help keep in the heat early spring, maybe a greenhouse in a greenhouse type of thing.
Dave

I finally have a greenhouse to show. Its one of the Harbor Freight 6 X 8 ones. My DH put in the foundation after Christmas and put it together. I did help some, but mainly I did the windsor block around the outside and the step. Now I have to get electric put in (DH will do that also.) Then I'll be ready to start seeds.
Becky

NIce work Becky!
Great setting too.
That is going to look like a green island in a few weeks.

Ric

Dave, I'm sure you will be very happy with your new gh. I looked at your interesting web page. Your kitchen window project is very nice. Is it full of plants by now. The house addition and island are great. Not sure I would like to have your deer in my yard, in fact I know I wouldn't. I have a redwood fence all around my garden to keep the deer out. There are way too many of them and they do not prune the way I do.

DonnaS

Dave you probably don't get as cold as I do. Here is a picture taken on April 23rd inside the plastic greenhouse. You can kind of see that I have plastic over my benches to create a greenhouse inside a greenhouse. We also had to electric heaters on the ground. As long as I put heavy things down on the front door flap so that the wind wouldn't left everything up this setup held up till -12 celcius.

Becky you and your DH did a great job on your greenhouse.

:) Donna

Great idea Donna.
What IS that plant flowering there?

Ric

Its called Firecracker vine or Ipomoea lobata or Mina lobata or Spanish Flag.

NIce! Thanks

Ric

Hi all,
Sorry for the late reply, just got back from a business trip.

DonnaS,
Glad you thought the page was interesting. I put it up so I had a place to put photos that were easy to access from anywhere. I've always got some project going :). The deer come through in large groups, sometimes as many as 18 during the day in the winter. They come across the ice and forage around the shore line. I don't see too many in the summer. We have lots of other animals happy to eat my veggies, so I fence in the garden or I'd lose everything :).

Donna,
Thanks for the pic, looks like your GH in a GH works pretty good by looking at your plants :). Will be trying something similar.

Nice looking GH Becky. I was originally thinking about putting a couple of those together. They are a good GH for the price.

Dave

Please lets not let this thread go.....there should be a way to stick it at the top !! I love looking at everones houses..... Sandy in Nortern Idaho

This is a picture of my greenhouse from last summer.

Here is a pic of my greenhouse.

cmalon, nice compost pile!

Are those solar pool covers? SB

Yep, I finally found a use for the useless solar cover :o) Now is DH could just find some giant rubber bands!!!
Thanks for compliment on the compost pile. My DH would like to give you a kiss, since I am constantly complaining about that eye sore.

Cindy

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Cmalon...what size is your greenhouse?

debcooper53, my greenhouse is 8x10, pretty small and full of brugs that I had cut back at the beginning of this so-called winter. Little did I know they would continue to grow all winter -I thought they went dormant -but then again what do I know....:o) Appears winter is supposed to make an appearance tomorrow. Same with you and stressbaby, I presume?

Cindy

Hi Cindy,

Yep. I just got back from putting the insulation back on the vents. Low of 22*F tonight.

There apparently was just enough of a break in the weather this week for Logee's to send a shipment of plants, though! Punica granatum 'Nana' (Dwarf Pomegranate), Ficus 'Brown Turkey', Cyphomandra crassicaulis, and Heliconia stricta ‘Dwarf Jamaican' came in the mail today. I love Logee's. Small plants, but not too expensive. The tropical equivalent of Bluestone Perennials. Slowly I'm building the greenhouse "landscape."

Now I need more gingers... SB

hey cmaon, didos on the compost pile! why not heep it up around your gh for the winter?

14x16 kit from farmtek

heated only with thermal mass in the form of 55 gal plastic drums of water........tek-foil (radiant foil lined bubble wrap) lines 2/3 wall on north side and 1/2 of north ceiling.........completed 2/09/06......45 outside with a north wind today 85 inside.exhaust fans are running to cool it down

completed inside, cobblestone entrance, beginning of lasanga bed outside entrance

Hey great job Jackie, I like the looks of the farmtek houses. When I put in another one I will probly build one like that one you got. What is the other greenhouse in the photo. Is that a hoop house that you had previously or are you using it now?? Tanarae

The first photo ( guy with wagon) of the completed kit was from the catalog..the rest are pictures of the building of it in progress...I am really pleased with the completed structure, but if I had it to do again I would find a more simple kit..this really need to be put together by a professional. My husband has a tremendous amount of knowledge and energies, and tools.....We used them all..directions were not always understandable ......it was kinda a figured it out yourself thing.....understand the house is great, I love it.........but the building of it was definetly not for amatuers or the faint of heart...........

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Ahh but now you 'Know' Greenhouses Jackie.
That kind of project gives you a whole new feeling for them.
It's a beautiful looking structure, great size, VERY practical tough design.
You guys did good!
What was the first plant in?
Ric

my good friend rjuddharrison at dave's sends me cuttings from tropicals, and I had been nursing them along in the kitchen til the GH was up....they have priority

next came tomato plants for the great guy who built it

then I seeded datura for me......

next thanks to my good friend darlindeb who has sent me all kinds of goodies for seeding......and my old friend Helen for the gingers

and thanks to all my good trading friends, the GH will rapidly fill up before time to move outside in our incredibly hot summers here

Hey Jackie, you guys did a great job on the greenhouse. I gave my job a two week notice today and am working now on the nursery start up at my townhouse. I just had some surgery so I have been out of touch for a week or two. Feeling good though and it looks like a march 18th opening date is on the horizon. Yippee cant wait. Got in lots of new plants and some pretties too so we will have to do some more trading when the season lets us. Tanarae

Good luck, good health to you.......I am excited with you

Jackie

i finaly got it up! my rion 8x16 and subwall i still have to build up the door, and start the task of shelving and such.

Ooooooo Man!!! Looks Great!........Looks much bigger than your reported size...........you do know it won't be big enough..... .don't you?
they never are. .....

I am formerly from Dallas, TX
Good Gardening

I love it! It looks so neat and tidy.