A week has passed since I last updated. Almost everything I transplanted has wilted, as I had to remove them from the ghetto house on Tuesday night so I could start the new greenhouse. It is complete, finally. After working Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday night 3 hours each (mostly in the dark), and the majority of Saturday with Angel's help, it is finished.
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| What I came home to Monday night. |
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| After much frustration this was today (Sunday) around 4 pm. The roof vent-window is installed with a thermal automatic opener, so the plants won't "cook" on the vine while I am at work during the heat of the day. |
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| Since I am living in a rental I could not dig a foundation, So I used concrete pavers and corner "L" beams to level and support the base. I found the pavers and blocks behind my house. They were left over from the drive-way/parking area. |
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| Current interior pic. Cheap re-puropsed Home Depot shelves I have had in my storage building for 3 years. Cardboard floor, as I wasn't going to haul in a truck load of gravel and mulch. The cardboard will stop any earth-borne diseases as well as keep me from having to cut the grass inside the greenhouse. Next step is to buy some patio pavers to lay in for a walk-way. |
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| Nursery bought peppers, tomatoes, may flowers, strawberries, cantaloupe, and cucumber plants. I hope to get them into their permanent containers by next weekend. |
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| I backfilled around my makeshift foundation with a large tub of sandy dirt I found out back. I put about 2 inches of compost substrate on top to hold water and keep it from washing away. I transplanted some patches of moss (I hope it spreads to hold the dirt in place). This is to shed water and keep the inside from becoming a perpetual mosquito puddle when it rains. The poles that flank the greenhouse are for the petter and tomato "Topsy-Turvy" planters. |
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| View from the driveway, of the door and steps. This shows how much I had to backfill as the back left corner is on the ground and the front right corner is about 6.5 inches off the ground. |
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