My greenhouse is a total loss

[MrClint]

Don’t even talk about wind! Palm fronds everywhere…

[itheweatherman]

Only a couple of corn plants got destroyed, and the asparagus got damaged.

[itheweatherman]

It was polyethyline.

[itheweatherman]

I’ll replace it with Agribon.

[MuddyMess_8a]

I have a longish A frame ‘spring house’ that I sometimes keep early seedlings in. A month or two ago when we had intense winds and storms that were taking down trees, a blast of wind came along, picked the whole thing up, and dropped it in the pool. I was fortunate on two counts. 1. There were no plants under it. 2. We saw it fly and my son and I were able to retrieve it before it sank out of reach.

I’m sorry to hear that any of your plants were harmed.

I’m curious why you have corn and asparagus growing in a structure. I didn’t think it got cold enough in your area this time of year to harm either of those.

[hoosierquilt]

Oh gosh, I’m so sorry, Ulises. Gosh, that’s going to be tough to get repaired.

[itheweatherman]

What kind of vegetables do you grow?

[itheweatherman]

The frame is intact.

[itheweatherman]

From time to time, we get late-frosts in April. We even got snow on the first week of April of 2012.

[itheweatherman]

This is on Thursday around 2:30 pm when I was heading to work.

[itheweatherman]

The frame is salvagable. I’ll replace the coverv with agribon.

[clarkinks]

Glad to hear that the Frame is ok. It sounds like you have some intense weather sometimes.

[39thparallel]

How was it working for you? I have not been able to regulate temperature in very small greenhouses.

[JustAnne4]

First, in my world it is too hard and expensive to work against nature so my approach is to perhaps modulate the extremes and grow appropriate veggies. Here is what the low tunnels looked like last fall.

They have rutabagas, kohlrabi and beets in them.
Where I am one must consider snow loads.

In the background is the high tunnel, containing cabbage, celtuce, cilantro, lettuce, chard, spinach, kale, celery, scallions, dill, carrots and various experimental plantings.

[clarkinks]

Anne what did your low tunnel cost to construct and where did you buy the materials?

[JustAnne4]

Haha Clark, it is one of those ad hoc developments. There is a low soggy area down by the creek which I thought, to make a productive use of, I would have to build a raised bed, which I filled with top soil someone graciously dropped off for free in my yard. My son found a carport frame on Craigs list which we modified and put on top. I strung galvanized plummers strapping tape between the bars for added poly support and covered it with felt to also protect the poly. Here is the inside in late fall
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I take the poly off in the summer and replace it with aluminet. The poly and the aluminet are held by ‘wigglewire’, making it very easy to switch out. The hoops are for extra row cover if the temps get below, say 25 degrees. This is needed only for the celery and lettuces. The idea is to capture ground heat which, in my area, usually says above 40 degrees.
Whoops, forgot to mention that I designed in a way to vent this which you see on the right side - just more strapping bent to hold the poly which is wrapped on PVC. Not shown are 2 vents in the apex of either side, and, partially shown is the solar powered fan which is thermistatically controlled.

[clarkinks]

I love it ! looks very good! Thanks for the information on how it’s constructed.

[matrix]

sorry friend for his greenhouse, hopefully all plants recover

[Bradybb]

I’ll replace it with Agribon.

That is interesting material.From what I read,it lets water and air through and also keeps in some heat. Brady

[JustAnne4]

So I’m wondering how it holds up to wind, or, how the attachments will be made so they don’t tear the fabric during wind gusts. Is it recommended for exterior ‘greenhouse’ fabric? It looks like the row cover that I use and if so, it’s kinda frail.