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Greenhouse Construction from a Kit
Beginning Spring 2008
The Netherlands
Photos by Stan Schaap and Susan Kramer
Gardens sitemap
Pumpkin (Hokkaido orange)
experiment in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NEW –
Compost Leaves in Your City Garden
Gardens in Ojai and Santa
Barbara Botanical Garden
Tomato Factory - small
hothouse experiment
Garden Green Roof
installation of sedums
Porch, pond and streambed
construction
Greenhouse
construction from a kit
Border gardens,
guerrilla gardening
Benefits of Gardening
Projects for Kids
Birds - Bluetits
- Pimpelmezen growing up
Greenhouse dimensions: 2 meters wide; 2.5 meters long; 2 meters high.
This is a project that Susan really wanted, almost a lifetime dream
fulfilled! Thanks go mostly to Stan for the patience in laying a concrete
foundation in each corner and putting the kit together. A
labor of love. Note there is one roof window and it automatically opens
at 66 degrees F. and closes when the temp. goes down
that low. Stan removed the top glass pane on the door to aid in air flow and keep the indoor temp. down. I've
seen it at 100 F. inside during a sunny afternoon. Susan is now working on
scooting the path pavers away from that side glass wall so bike handelbars don't hit it while walking by. Susan put in 3
ivy trees to act as a visual barrier to stay away from the side wall. And, now
that Stan has completed the construction Susan is busy planting in the ground
and seeds in pots on the table. Even under the table Swiss Chard will be growing, ha, ha. Susan has started
zucchini and pumpkin seeds indoors and will move those to the outside garden
area when they are about a foot high.
1. Newly completed greenhouse, wooly bully (the palm tree) at right along
back fence.
2. Greenhouse foundation. The 3 poles spaced the length of the greenhouse are a
visual barrier to keep bikes from getting too close to the glass wall.
3. Greenhouse aluminum framing.
4. Susan raking soil, sliding door is at right short side, roof is plexiglass, side walls are glass.
5. Stan by sliding glass door.
6. Inside greenhouse.
7. Greenhouse showing ivy trees - ivy planted to go up poles.
8. Greenhouse showing shadecloth in summer on side sun shines in directly. Also
notice that heavy chicken wire was placed along the poles outside greenhouse to
prevent bike handlebars from hitting glass. Also pavers on path were move a
foot away from glass and a narrow band of plants sown in the bed. Tomatoes growing along far wall.
9. February 2011 - Yes, it is a
gray winter day! Stan just built these wood borders for a raised bed to grow
mainly tomatoes. We left the ground under the bench clear to place large pots.
The ground has been double dug for 3 years now and I am filling the beds with
potting soil from the garden center. The tomatoes should love it. If you look
through the glass to outside you'll see the raised beds put in last summer
which worked out nicely, as I didn't have so far to bend over to tend them. The
new borders could be extended even higher in the future, as Stan used tongue
and grove floor boards to constuct so far.
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