Temporary greenhouse

[Melon]

Day 3 progress
I thought I’d only have a few hundred piethere’s at least a thousand…

Temporary everything because we’re renting. If i wasn’t, I’d hire some concrete contractors to make me a slab like in my old home

Planning on having the ac unit blow into the greenhouse. Bought some bug mesh to go over that area where the ac unit will blow. When it gets too cold, I’ll put a cover over that area.

Will possibly take it down too when it gets too warm. One of my Mango trees have been telling me it wants to fruit so this should help as well.

My Ruby supreme Guava is almost 7ft tall so I’ll be air grafting it as soon as i can get everything up. This will be my tropical greenhouse. It’s 10 × 20 and 10 ft tall at the peak. 6.5 foot tall side walls. Bought it off of Amazon. Lowes, home depot, and everywhere else has similar greenhouses for over 3k at this size. Looked up the cost of the corrugated plastic panels for this size and it’s about half of the price of the greenhouse itself so i bought the kit. They raised the price by 200$ after i bought it so I’m guessing shipping is a quarter of the cost because it came in 5 heavy packages.

My old house is finally in contract so we may buy a house or some land to build one next year after the rates go down a little bit more.

[swincher]

@Melon

Planning on having the ac unit blow into the greenhouse

Won’t this make it colder in winter? I’m assuming that’s a heat pump that is used for heat in winter, so the outside unit is blowing air colder than ambient.

[Melon]

No it’s just for now since we’re still in the 60-70 during the day. In the winter, I plan on putting the panel back on

[TNHunter]

My temporary winter greenhouse… more like a hot bed.

I grow greens in it from October thru late May.

I cover it with heavy frost fabric… + if needed old bed sheets… + if needed old blankets… + if needed a string of incandescent Christmas lights.

The last two winters my greens have survived for a week or more at extreme temps 2F. 3F. and low teens around those temps.

Can grow some awesome leaf lettuce and spinach all fall winter spring.

TNHunter

[Melon]

That reminds me… i need to get non-l.e.d. Christmas lights.

Those look amazing. And no bug bites from what i can see!

[swincher]

@Melon

i need to get non-l.e.d. Christmas lights

I was able to find some good old ones at goodwill, but the problem is many of the old ones have that issue where one dead bulb causes the whole strand to go dark, and replacement bulbs are harder to come by.

[Bradybb]

Fred Meyer may have been selling incandescent ones,the last few years.

[TNHunter]

@Melon … that is the best time to grow greens here. Late fall, all winter and into late spring… because (NO BUGS) and you get pristine greens.

Late May early June my patch starts getting bug infested and I pull them then.

Our super walmart sells the smaller bulb lights (incadescent)… as shown in my pic above. One 300 bulb string is what I have used the past two winters… worked well.

I must have been getting 10-15 heat gain for all that to survive with no damage at all.

This year… I am trying the larger incandescent bulb strings… C9 size.

TNHunter

[Melon]

Dam, has it really been 8 days? what a snail I’ve been…