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Dinner last night
Topic Started: Jul 22 2008, 03:31 AM (487 Views)
lb1
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I started gathering the material for a new greenhous over the weekend. It will be 14'x18'.

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Jul 22 2008, 09:47 AM
lb1 you are a lucky man.

I don't eat food even close to that quality. Supermarkets are my supply.
I want to build a small greenhouse to extend our short growing season and get a garden going.

It will have to wait until next year.

I've talked about the concept of square foot gardening several times. For folks with little space and little time, it works extremely well.

A 4'x8' bed may not give you enough vegetables to can, but it will provide a lot more fresh eating than you think.

Fresh is better.
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Jul 22 2008, 07:47 AM

I don't eat food even close to that quality. Supermarkets are my supply.
I want to build a small greenhouse to extend our short growing season and get a garden going.

It will have to wait until next year.

Did you see the pictures that Klaus posted awhile back of his greenhouse? Man, now that would make anyone envious.

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Jul 22 2008, 08:03 AM
I've talked about the concept of square foot gardening several times. For folks with little space and little time, it works extremely well.

A 4'x8' bed may not give you enough vegetables to can, but it will provide a lot more fresh eating than you think.

Fresh is better.

I have a friend who uses that method on a relatively small part of his small back yard. He swears by it. There is quite a bit to be said for starting with something managable that doesn't overwhelm you. Some gardens get away from people because they're too big for the time they can spend on them and pretty soon the weeds take over. Here's a link: Square Foot Gardening

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Jul 22 2008, 09:03 AM
Jeeez lb, onions in a Martini ? Where the hell did you grow up, Indiana? Ooops.

I was more appalled with the suggestion of using vodka.

Never mind the onions, olives or dodgy French wine. Winston Churchill's patented recipe for making martinis:

Add 3 oz of dry gin to a shaker of ice. Shake and pour into a martini glass whilst turning towards the direction of France. Drink and repeat.
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I have a back south facing deck that currently has a double door to it. I was thinking about a greenhouse kit that would extend out from the side of the house onto the deck.

I also checked out some free-standing units. Fresh tomatoes.....cucumbers....*drool*

Produce from supermarkets tastes like styrofoam compared to fresh.
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Jul 22 2008, 09:21 AM
I was thinking about a greenhouse kit that would extend out from the side of the house onto the deck.

I don't like that idea. Aside from the additional structural load on the deck, the mass of earth beneath a greenhouse tends to hold a more stable temperature within. Anything planted atop a deck will be subject to greater swings in soil temperature and probably will not do so well, particularly at both ends of the growing season. Unless you're in a very temperate part of the globe, a four-season greenhouse is a very expensive proposition in any case to keep going through the winter, and the limited sunlight will make growing many crops dicey anyhow.

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Jul 22 2008, 09:56 AM
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Jul 22 2008, 09:21 AM
I was thinking about a greenhouse kit that would extend out from the side of the house onto the deck.

I don't like that idea. Aside from the additional structural load on the deck, the mass of earth beneath a greenhouse tends to hold a more stable temperature within. Anything planted atop a deck will be subject to greater swings in soil temperature and probably will not do so well, particularly at both ends of the growing season. Unless you're in a very temperate part of the globe, a four-season greenhouse is a very expensive proposition in any case to keep going through the winter, and the limited sunlight will make growing many crops dicey anyhow.

Big Al

Hmmm.

You make a good point. Thanks, Al.

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