MY NEW GREENHOUSE

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

A few months ago I mentioned on here somewheres I bought a cheap greenhouse on ebay for 70 bux.

Well I finally set it up today, and as I told everyone I'd posta pic of it once it was up...here it is.. It was easy to assemble, it's very lightweight and will need sand around the bottom flaps to stop it becomming a kite. It's very transparent, so while that's great for light penetration, my noesy neighbor is a problem.

 

I am a mad keen gardener though and have a few tricks up my sleeve yet. I'll grow plenty of tomatoes in there through winter, and put the good gear in pots between the tomatoes, and ferns, etc etc... just fill it with orchids etc in general to make it impossible to distinguish indiviual shapes.

 

I am also building a shade-house from an old childs swing set frame from HILLS. I'll simply place it between the greenhouse and the nosey bugger and all should be fine.

 

I'm looking forward to some winter buds..all going well of course.

 

cheers

rob

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

Sorry, that was a pic that came with the packaging. Here's a pic taken from my window. I haven't finished squaring it up, etc... just thought I'd give an accuate view of what they look like. Some mentioned to me they were interested in buying one from ebay, so here it is.

 

cheers

rob

[Ozzy420]

Not a bad green house there Rob.

 

The frame is it plastic or metal ?

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

It's really light metal, like the cheap car pot arangements you buy from disposals and such. I don't think it'll last more than a few years say, then maybe rust will start to ruin it. I dunno, maybe that's too pesemistic. but at 70 dollars, a few years will be fine.

 

it'll do the job well for sure. Inside you can barely notice a light drop, yet it obscures plant shapes from outside to allow plants to be fuzzy. I think it'll work well.

 

cheers

riob

[Pam]

Best of luck with it Rob!

I had just gotten mine and it's still sitting in the box 2000 miles away....oh well someday.

 

Let us know how it goes!!

[Tom]

Nice buy for $70.

 

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

Thanks Pam, I reckon it'll be ok. I already have a little fence around it. My little daughter has a mongrel dog that chews everything. I filled the greenhouse with Aus tree ferns, different flowering plants, a table, bla bla bla....just making it all look like the uusal old greenhouse. Plenty of room to slip plants in here and there, or devote an entire end to a simple hydro run to watse system gravity fed.

 

Which leads me to the next question.

 

Tom I just looked at your simple run to waste plans pinned on your signature, but it isn't the sytem you used some years ago is it? The system you ran say 6 years back was what I was thinking of copying. Do u think the plans you show on your signature now is better than the old one?

 

I just want to set up a dozen small pots, and a gravity fed run to waste system so there's no noise or poer needed in the greenhouse.

 

I joined a web site somewhere else..(theyhave a vendor forum for a seed company I'm dealing with). The site has an entire mass of devotion dedicated totally to greenhouses. I'm going to build one based on their information. They have sorted out what materials are best for cover, ventialtion etc. It'll be a lot simpler to copy someone elses plans than to go through trial and error. this cheap one will give me astart though, and get a feel for it all.

 

cheers mate

rob

[nouseforaname]

hey rob,

Looks great. You could use a 25 ltr bottle with tap then reduced to drip feed line to your hydro then runoff to feed the rest of greenhouse then to waste.. Just have to work out what flow or rate you want to water at..

[loylty gets u nothing]

very nice rob

u have me drooling

ive always wanted a greenhouse

all the best

bil

[Morgaine]

Trick number 2 for nosy neighbours...give them some of the lovely tomatoes or other produce you grow...nosey neighbours wives would also love an orchid of their own !!!!!!