New use for old greenhouse.

I'm taking my #1 greenhouse out of the potted perennial business so I thought I might try using it for grow edible crops. Right now it's in a pretty good bit of shade w/ the big oaks around it in full leaf. I thought I'd take the gh film off the walls(it has a corrigated fiber glass roof) to hopefully allow more light in then using it to grow veggies in late winter and early spring. Maybe try some of those summer lettuces this time of year.

It has a sprinkler system but I thought I'd start out growing in large buckets to see if it's working idea then put in raised beds later if it's successful.

Will post pix later of the inside so you can see what kind of light/shade I have. This is all LTiltons fault w/ his summer lettuce experiment. I want fresh home grown lettuce w/ my home grown tomatoes,cukes and etc.TOO!

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Will this be a business as well?

My area has acres of greenhouses devoted to the nursery trade. With the cost of produce in the supermarkets here I don't know why some don't start converting.

For home use and Farmers Market. It's only 20x40. Good size,I'd say for what I want to use it for.

Homegrown lettuce,at market,earlier this year was brisk.

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Wondering if mushrooms would grow out there or if it'd be worth the effort from what I read on how many can be harverted from a kit.


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here's the greenhouse at 2pm. It hasn't been in use for over a year now so it needs the sprinklers fixed and cleared of weeds.

Great idea! Wish I had a greenhouse.

I've got the lettuce in the fridge and picking cukes off the vine, and one tomato is looking kinda colored, so I may achieve my goal, after all.

That's right...rub it in because I'm having to eat bagged lettuce this time of year..LOL

I'm still getting tomatoes by the tons but we've bush hogged almost all the rest of the 2 acre summer garden. Now I'm sewing our fall crops in my little backyard garden(s)

I've raised veggies late winter in low polytunnels(even lettuce) w/ success so I don't know why it won't work in the GH. I'm going to experiment come late Jan-early Feb.

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