Cedar Greenhouse with Potting Bench

Wow thats a great greenhouse in a beautiful setting.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Wonderful, what a great gift.

-- David - Tucson, AZ

Nicest one I’ve seen, Did you work from an available plan or design it yourself?

-- If you say 'It's good enough', it probably isn't.

beautiful

-- -erik & christy-

Beautiful -

Sure hope my wife does not see this.

Seriously, this would be a great idea for us since we have given up on gardening due to deer and rabbits and bugs.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

Paul: We actually designed most of it ourselves but I used the basic look of it from a greenhouse builder in British Columbia. The hardest part of designing this was attaching the vertical posts to the roof supports and then attaching them to the center lam. beam. We used a Z style design which I cut on the bandsaw and stainless lag screws to hold them all together. Unlike normal stick frame construction we had to put the ridge cap on before the polycarbonate roof panels as there was no way to get at the top of the roof (other than the ends or a lift bucket) so we dadoed out a cedar 1×4 about 2” down, installed it with an aluminum cap and then slid the poly panels underneath it and added silicone caulking at the seam. The poly panels do expand and contract so you have to compensate for that also. It was a lot more of a “project” than I anticipated but I find that’s usually the case with most of the work I tackle (foolishly at times!).

-- Jamie, Sedalia, Colorado

what a great little greenhouse it look dam cool
I like the inside solutions too if you don´t want
to grow tomatoes and cucumbers
I like it becourse you don´t have to crowl on all fuor
you shuold put it on the sistersite gardentenders too

Dennis

Great my wife saw this.Now she wants one.Thanks alot!!!!!Anyway very nice work.

-- Scott NM,http://www.shangrilawoodworks.com

Great greenhouse and very nicely constructed inside and out. I showed my wife and now she is worried about the bears! I like the part about keeping the wife busy so you can get more time in the shop. Thanks for the tip.

-- Mike, American in Norway

This thing looks terrific…one thought though, don’t put an ice cream machine in there. I saw the remnants of a building that was used to sell ice cream in Co after a black bear had dismantled it. He even made it through the the machine door. I hope he enjoyed the ice cream that we did not get to buy.

-- jstegall

I showed my wife too, and now she wants one too (should have read Scott’s post before showing her). I did build her a green house last summer of PVC and 6 mil plastic. I will NOT post a photo of it as it’s pretty sad in comparison to yours. It has withstood 50 mph winds and several feet of snow, which is more than some greenhouses around here withstood.

The wire mesh under the floor was a good idea.

Can I ask the overall length and width? I made my 10’ x 14’, and of course it’s too small now. My wife calls this my practice greenhouse.

Congratulations on a great job!

-- John from Horse Shoe

Beautiful.
I want the same!( I know I would have to make it. It would fun to do)

-- Bert

John: I made it 10’x16’. The 16’ length was to take advantage of standard 8’ sized lumber and I was planning to make it 12’ in width for the same reason. But I realized that anything wider than a 36’’ bed would be impossible to reach the far side and with the 2×4 outside walls and 2×4 knee high interior bed walls that left approx. 30” for an aisleway which was plenty. Even with that my wife uses a step stool to reach the far corners of the beds. We lost 7’ on the east side for the potting bench and sink but I did put in some bedding areas on the outside of the structure for plants and vegetables, like potatoes, that most animals won’t eat. (we hope!) I also put shelves on the potting bench to grow potted flowers on. To enlarge this I would suggest you either go longer, say to 24’ in length but if that’s not practical and you need to widen it, then I would suggest two aisles with a center aisle bedding area. I do highly recommend the raised beds along with a sturdy 2×6 ledge that one can sit or lean as it’s a pleasure to work in the garden standing up!!!

-- Jamie, Sedalia, Colorado

Very impressive!! I’d like to do something just like this for my wife, She’d love it!! Now it’s just a question of whether the neighbors will let me annex a portion of their real estate….

-- If you don't have time to do it right, do you have time to do it twice?

That is a nice looking green house. I better not let my wife see this one.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://americancraftsmanworkshop.com