This week, your Community Gardeners built a small green house out of recycled and donated materials from Skip and Char French and Susan Krotz. Since we are not "big" farmers or market gardeners it occurred to us that we didn't need to build or use a large greenhouse--a small house that would help propagate about 250 plants (tomatoes, eggplants, squash, etc.) would be sufficient.
The pictures above show a structure that is 30 inches wide by 80 inches long and 39 inches high at the peak. Small cutouts on the bottom sill of one gable end allow us to run extension cords to small heaters and a connection for drip lines for irrigation. The entire structure weighs under 100 pounds and can be tilted up for extensive watering or to cool off as necessary.
Our next steps will be to wrap the structure seen here in plastic and then load it up with seed trays. We'll post more pictures to show our progress as the season unfolds. We thank Skip, Char, and Susan for their generous gifts!
