We built a second greenhouse a couple years ago. We finally got around to covering it with plastic this year. The first 30' x 48' greenhouse was purchased as a kit and is constructed of very heavy steel pipes. We made the second greenhouse ourselves with used water pipe and a manual pipe bender. You can see the two greenhouses in the background. The home made one is on the left.
The total cost for the home made 30' x 48' green house, including the plastic was about $1750. It is not designed to carry any snow load, so the plastic will have to be removed every winter.
Here is Elijah heading up the ladder to help pull the greenhouse plastic over the frame. He almost made it to the top once, I was too alarmed to think of taking a picture of it though.
Don't try putting the green house plastic on when it is windy out. As you can see, a half covered greenhouse makes a great sail.
Here it is all covered. We attached the plastic to the frame by taking PVC pipe in a slightly larger size than the metal frame, cutting it into 12" sections, splitting those in half, and sandwiching the greenhouse plastic between the metal frame and a pvc piece and securing with 2 screws in each pvc piece. They are spaced about 2' apart. You can see the black pvc pieces along the frame in the picture above. We are leaving the ends open so that it will be a cooler greenhouse than the other one. It gets over 100 degrees in the enclosed one on an 80 degree day, we will dedicate the enclosed green house to super heat loving vegetables like the tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, and peppers. The new greenhouse will have things like corn, lettuce, and beans.
We planted the corn, beans and lettuce already. They are being hand watered until we get the irrigation lines set up. The irrigation lines consist of a 3/4" header pipe with T-Tape running down the rows. We get all of our irrigation supplies at
www.dripworks.com. It is fairly inexpensive unless you include shipping to Alaska. That usually doubles the cost.
The total cost for the home made 30' x 48' green house, including the plastic was about $1750. It is not designed to carry any snow load, so the plastic will have to be removed every winter.
Here is Elijah heading up the ladder to help pull the greenhouse plastic over the frame. He almost made it to the top once, I was too alarmed to think of taking a picture of it though.
Don't try putting the green house plastic on when it is windy out. As you can see, a half covered greenhouse makes a great sail.
Here it is all covered. We attached the plastic to the frame by taking PVC pipe in a slightly larger size than the metal frame, cutting it into 12" sections, splitting those in half, and sandwiching the greenhouse plastic between the metal frame and a pvc piece and securing with 2 screws in each pvc piece. They are spaced about 2' apart. You can see the black pvc pieces along the frame in the picture above. We are leaving the ends open so that it will be a cooler greenhouse than the other one. It gets over 100 degrees in the enclosed one on an 80 degree day, we will dedicate the enclosed green house to super heat loving vegetables like the tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, and peppers. The new greenhouse will have things like corn, lettuce, and beans.
We planted the corn, beans and lettuce already. They are being hand watered until we get the irrigation lines set up. The irrigation lines consist of a 3/4" header pipe with T-Tape running down the rows. We get all of our irrigation supplies at www.dripworks.com. It is fairly inexpensive unless you include shipping to Alaska. That usually doubles the cost.
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