Greenhouse

Nice work and clever bit of engineering with the windows! Can’t let the wife see this one or I’ll never get my “other” Honey-do list done!

It looks like you’re in a beautiful country setting! We would love to have such a nice greenhouse so that we, too, could have a longer growing season.

The idea of being on a glass roof is pretty scary to us! Thanks for sharing.

L/W

-- Jesus is the ONLY reason for ANY season.

Looks great. You walked on the roof, yikes.

-- Alan, Prince George

Sweet! I’m in COS and would love to live there…

-- “Once more unto the breach, dear friends...” Henry V - Act III, Scene I

Wow! That’s a nice greenhouse! I like the roominess you have to work. I have a homemade pvc arched frame that I need to replace soon with an aluminum frame. It held up through two 24” record snow storms last winter so I can’t complain. Do you ever use cold frames inside of the greenhouse? This would add another climate zone. Add a lightbulb and you may have a sauna with the extra heat!

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Great job on the recycle of this magnitude

-- Norman

Wonderful job on the greenhouse and the recycling, I keep thinking about it, and after this years disaster
of a garden, late cold spring, I just may have to bite the bullet and make a least a small one. The other nice
thing about this is that it will help warm up one wall of your garage/shop. One gentleman got so much heat
from his attached greenhouse that he put a small fan hooked up to a thermostat in the upper corner and
helped heat his garage. Thank you for sharing.

-- As ever, Gus-the 74 yr young apprentice carpenter

this is WONDERFUL.
well worth all that effort, I’m sure.
And I love seeing how material is saved to be given a new life.

Now.. please let us know, over at GardenTenders, about the plants that grow inside.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I love your greenhouse and you’ve done a wonderful job on it.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

For the folks thinking about a greenhouse, I would suggest talking to a window and door company. We got all of our patio doors for the roof for free from High Country Window and Door. When the replaced a patio door, they emailed us. They would leave the doors outside the building, rather than throwing them in the dumpster. They saved money, and we got free glass. Of course, while we were collecting enough glass to build the greenhouse, we had windows everywhere. It was starting to look like the set from Sanford & Son!

MMH: We haven’t thought about using a cold frame inside. My wife uses several of them outside. We have a little mushroom propane heater that we use on the really cold nights when there wasn’t any sun.

BluePine: I really want to use the greenhouse to heat the garage, but I’m concerned about moisture. It is very dry in CO, and the moisture from the greenhouse just condenses on everything in the garage (think steel tools :( ) I’ve already had some rust form on my table saw and band saw. Warm and rusty, or cold and dry? Tough decision.

MsDebbie: I’ll refer my wife to the GardenTenders site for details over there. I’m sure she could make some people jealous :) For the winter, it’s mostly greens like spinach, lettuce, and other tasty things.

oh we love being jealous—can’t wait to learn some tips and tricks from her

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)