Building An Easy And Cost-effective Greenhouse On Your Back Yard

Thorough planning and preparation is essential before starting your greenhouse project. Putting up a greenhouse need not be time-consuming or expensive. Your greenhouse design will very much depend on your home抯 home architecture, space and plants that you want to grow, cost and available location. Make sure that your greenhouse should provide the environment suitable for your chosen type of plants.

Location

Your greenhouse must be built in a site where it will get the full and concentrated sunlight.

Your best option is the 搒outheast side?of your house or shade of trees. All day sunlight is best, though also consider the morning sunlight coming from the east side because this is adequate for most plants, as it permits the course food production to start early so then progress is maximized.

The location on the east captures most of the November up to February sunshine.

Deciduous trees like oak and maple can shade the greenhouse effectively from the strong late afternoon sun during the summer but they must not shade or cover your greenhouse during the morning. These trees likewise permit maximum sun exposure during the winter due to the shedding of their foliage during fall.

Your greenhouse must not be located beside trees having leaves all year as it will block the winter sun. You must maximize greenhouse exposure to winter sun especially if your greenhouse will be used year-round.

Another necessity for the location of your greenhouse is good drainage. When needed, construct your greenhouse higher than the ground so as irrigation and rainwater will easily drain away.

Light that is required by certain types of plants that you will grow, water, electricity, heat and protection from strong wind are other factors that should also be considered.

Also, you need to set up a workplace and an area for storage of your supplies in your greenhouse.

Here is a simple and easy to construct greenhouse:

Materials:

5 pieces of 20 foot each 搊f 5/8 inch?rebar, cut into 1/3's - 6 foot in length.

7 pieces of 20 foot schedule?40 PVC?drilled with a hole size 3/16 to ?inch 揹ead center?at 10 feet.

84 feet that is 揷ut into 4 foot lengths?of 摻 schedule 40 PVC?

80 pieces size 2X4 wood (treated).

4 pieces fence posts, 8 foot in length (treated).

Size ?0X24 fee?UV 損olyethylene? stabilized

60 pieces 2 ?inches fence staples

1. Begin by extending a thin rope or string where the 搕wo long sides?of your greenhouse should be. Then pound the 6 foot rebar in, each with a distance of 4 feet away from each other, in a 搒traight line?and allowing 48 inches to protrude from the soil or ground.

2. Nail the 2X6 runner on to the 搑ebar stakes? This will provide you with something so as to nail on the polyethylene later. You may use a ?0 2 ?inch fence staples?

3. Slide in the PVC pieces (20 inch) over the 搑ebar stakes? making certain that no sharp points are exposed, such as rebar, wire ends, rough pipes, etc.

4. Put the PVC pieces (20 foot) on the 搑ebar stakes? You need to have somebody do 搊ne side?as you also do the 搊ther side?carefully and slightly at each time. Make sure that you drilled holes 損arallel to the ground?

5. Slide the wire all through the PVC holes and through the 8 PVC (4foot) pieces 揳long the roof?

6. So as the 搑ibs?will not shift horizontally, you need to wire together the 4 foot PVC pipe lengths with either baling or copper wire. Make certain that the wire is wrapped so that the PVC pipe is forced inward.

7. Construct now the 搕wo end walls?and the doors. Use vertical posts (4X4) 10 foot length and buried 3 or 4 feet for the doorway frame. Make certain that the end walls are not floppy and must stay vertically so that the PVC will not separate. Your door must be very tight so that the wind will not be able to inflate the greenhouse.

8. Drive some nails into the post抯 base horizontally of the posts and submerge them to the ground.

9. With somebody抯 help, and each person on each side holding the plastic, slide it over the rib cage and then attach the ends by wrapping the plastic抯 end around lath pieces then 搉ail the lath?to the 揺nd walls?and also along the foundation.

10. Be creative and add a few of your personal touches.

All done! Have fun in your greenhouse!

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