Greenhouse framing in progress!

February 13th
(posting photo on Valentine's)

It has been a strangely dry winter. The rains have to be coming. We're aiming to get the roof on next Friday the 20th.
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February 6th & 7th













The little greenhouse model is coming to life! Tall and making me want to be a little plant and live in it... Temporary bracing and two holes dug for the "hurricane" feet on the north side - to anchor our mobile greenhouse. This is what I found when I came back from a section of the WSU & Fresh Earth Gardens 'Modern Organic Farming on Small Acreage' class. Rode up with Anne of Gales Meadow Farm to see her seed presentation. Speaking there next weekend on organic amendments and fertilizer. Neil is awesome. Hot, sunny day on Saturday!
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January 30th & 31st














We leveled the two floor sections and Neil installed the south wall while I was at a chicken workshop in WA. We primed and painted lots of boards in the basement for next week.

caught in a vortex

Not sure I could stop the greenhouse at this point. I am driven by dark unseen forces. I was out there in the dark last night tired from work just standing and staring at the tarp covered shape and wondering why i am building a greenhouse on a rental property and not looking for a real career. BUT I always did like the scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the dad guy freaks out and builds a model of Devil's Tower in his living room. Needed 2 10' 2x4's so i did hit Home Depot for those.

Compulsions

Hi - Back after a long absence. Sorry about the silence. Naomi covers mucho on her work blog at Concentrates but now I had to get into the fray.

A while back we came into possession of 30 old windows. They sat on the side of the house on a pallet under a tarp until they pissed our landlord off and gave me the itch to finally turn them into a greenhouse. I am not a builder but lately I have been getting these compulsions to build. Recent projects I have zombied my way through include 2 sets of bookshelves, new doors and flourishes on chicken coop, retaining wall for mudslide in front yard - due to wacky grading during the renovation 3 years ago - that has now caused some craptastic erosion. (We are renters so don't ask me). I generally work with almost all found materials - either wood I find in the area or found nicer pallets that I decon. Some purchases of 1/2" hardware cloth and 2x2's morphed into some gossamer shelves for future greenhouse already. Looking for any and all alternatives to the big chain building stores as well. Trying to avoid Home Depot and Lowe's.

Last night I built a 1/16th scale model of the greenhouse (see photo). So we walked to the Rebuilding Center today and got some hinges and brackets for the greenhouse. And hope to get some advice from my friend Luis who is a real builder in North Carolina.