jjannie's greenhouse addition - 2021

[jjannie]

](20211005 102841 Need to trench for the foundation — Postimages)

[Kent]

It’s nice you do so many projects together.

[wiperhunter2]

Looks great Jil, you and Jeff do great work, should be really nice once you are finished. Do you still have anything growing in your GH? I know my outside garden beds got a heavy dose of frost a few days ago. I’ll have to post about it on my garden thread.

[jjannie]

@kentofnsl

It’s nice you do so many projects together.

Agreed. We are always thankful we learned how to work together in the USAF, long before we even married. We don’t think the same but have learned one another’s way of thinking so we make it work pretty well - we both value the different perspectives we each give to things.

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@wiperhunter2

Looks great Jil, you and Jeff do great work, should be really nice once you are finished. Do you still have anything growing in your GH? I know my outside garden beds got a heavy dose of frost a few days ago. I’ll have to post about it on my garden thread.

Tomatoes, some bell peppers are still ripening up but the cukes and pole beans are pretty spent. We need to get these leaves up before today’s rains wet them once again. This will be 3rd time of doing this as leaves keep falling - we keep hoping for good wind to remove them so this job can just be over - hahaha.

[wiperhunter2]

@jjannie

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@wiperhunter2

Looks great Jil, you and Jeff do great work, should be really nice once you are finished. Do you still have anything growing in your GH? I know my outside garden beds got a heavy dose of frost a few days ago. I’ll have to post about it on my garden thread.

Tomatoes, some bell peppers are still ripening up but the cukes and pole beans are pretty spent. We need to get these leaves up before today’s rains wet them once again. This will be 3rd time of doing this as leaves keep falling - we keep hoping for good wind to remove them so this job can just be over - hahaha.

We are just now getting some leaves from our neighbors trees but I read an article about the benefits of just leaving the leaves on the lawns during the Winter. I guess the nutrients from the leaves leach out during the Winter, then is Spring the leaves can be rakes up. If I run across the article again, I’ll send it to you but basically it means you use less fertilizer on your lawn during the Summer.

[jjannie]

@wiperhunter2

@jjannie

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@wiperhunter2

Looks great Jil, you and Jeff do great work, should be really nice once you are finished. Do you still have anything growing in your GH? I know my outside garden beds got a heavy dose of frost a few days ago. I’ll have to post about it on my garden thread.

Tomatoes, some bell peppers are still ripening up but the cukes and pole beans are pretty spent. We need to get these leaves up before today’s rains wet them once again. This will be 3rd time of doing this as leaves keep falling - we keep hoping for good wind to remove them so this job can just be over - hahaha.

We are just now getting some leaves from our neighbors trees but I read an article about the benefits of just leaving the leaves on the lawns during the Winter. I guess the nutrients from the leaves leach out during the Winter, then is Spring the leaves can be rakes up. If I run across the article again, I’ll send it to you but basically it means you use less fertilizer on your lawn during the Summer.

I agree with leaving some, but we had so many it would be more of weed or grass barrier, killing anything underneath them. Now with this breeze starting up ahead of the front that more and more are still dropping. We use mulching blower vac - so by vacuuming them up its also mulching them and it goes right into a trash can so once filled (its about 10 bags of un-mulched fit in one can). We’ll till them along with some soil, utelite and our compost and use this mixture in the beds (once we build them - LOL) in the GH addition as well as in all garden and flower pots. So far it works pretty well so by the end of next summer amount of dirt left in those pots drops by several inches as the leaves have totally decomposed. Makes for a good soil to use in next year’s fall process. At least we got what we needed/wanted all bagged up while its was dry, ahead of the coming rains - its now saying we could get 1/2 an inch of rain this evening into early tomorrow. We covered our addition space to try and keep it bit more dry for working in the area W-Su, hopefully by then we will have the GH up giving us some shelter for making the growing beds inside the space. At least that’s the plan.

[jjannie]

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[wiperhunter2]

With the dry hot Summer we had, it’s nice to finally get some wet weather. Hopefully in the coming days it will warm up and you two will be able complete the outside part of your GH. From what I read Sat morning should be good, so maybe you have a little more time, fingers crossed.

[jjannie]

](20211020 Day 1 — Postimages) 21 October 2021 Day 2 Made good progress today, more adjusting for the shorter length so things lined up. It’s taking shape nicely, got the wall framework up along with side gutters. These 2 pictures give an idea of how the 2 will meet up inside. It’s only 8ft longer but the same 10ft width.

[wiperhunter2]

@jjannie

20 October 2021

Day 1 of actually erecting the GH
This step was a crucial one and it was difficult because its a lot of on the ground work. Also, since we only are able to use 8 of its 12ft length we had to calculate just where we needed to shorten some parts and drill new holes that would mimic the ends that were cut off. But we accomplished our goal and called it a day.

21 October 2021
Day 2
Made good progress today, more adjusting for the shorter length so things lined up. It’s taking shape nicely, got the wall framework up along with side gutters. These 2 pictures give an idea of how the 2 will meet up inside. It’s only 8ft longer but the same 10ft width.

Looks good, you guys have made some great progress.

[jjannie]

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[wiperhunter2]

It is really starting to take shape, now if you guys can get in a few hours before that storm hits later today…guess it’s unlikely to be finished, so I guess that will not matter, maybe next week :-/

[jjannie]

@wiperhunter2

It is really starting to take shape, now if you guys can get in a few hours before that storm hits later today…guess it’s unlikely to be finished, so I guess that will not matter, maybe next week :-/

Yes you can really start getting feel of its size and space now. Its already been lightly raining already this morning so making the area too mucky to work in so maybe we’ll get back to working on it by next Friday, giving it over a day to dry out a bit. Then we’ll get back at the project. So far, we’re pretty happy with how its turning out.

The saga continues…

[jjannie]

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[wiperhunter2]

Looks great Jil, amazing you two were able to get all the panels in that quick, when you say you had to trim the panels, if they are make of plastic, do you have a special tool to cut them down?

[jjannie]

@wiperhunter2

Looks great Jil, amazing you two were able to get all the panels in that quick, when you say you had to trim the panels, if they are make of plastic, do you have a special tool to cut them down?

The panels are a polycarbonate material. We cut most using a box knife with a straight edge, but on a few later ones, Jeff did experiment with using his bandsaw and he said it worked as well, we weren’t sure it wouldn’t just melt it but it didn’t. For structural reasons the wall on each side along with and the corresponding roof panels needed the same trimming. It was very time consuming but it all worked out. While Jeff finished up by installing roof opening windows, I once again and for last time, removed leaves from the yard as well as in the gutters on the GH. Funny, we remembered when we used to get leaves from our kids’ house to have enough for the garden beds, but that is no longer a problem. With all dust from the ongoing construction next door there was a lot mud that the rains had washed down inside them, but now it too is all cleaned out. There will still be ground work happening, probably come spring of next year but even that should not be heavy dust of the huge dirt mound of them doing their foundation. They are taking so long and they are in no rush (sadly) as they with their parents right on the other side, its already been 15 months now.

Once we clean out the original gh and complete the raised beds/walk way in addition, I’ll post a final completed project that will be ready for early spring planting. Yesterday, we picked up all materials needed for making the raised beds but we are giving ourselves a little well deserved break for a couple days.

[wiperhunter2]

Wow, it has been 15 months since they started building that house, bet you two will be glad when they are finished. Looking forward to those pics of the finished GH.

[jjannie]

@wiperhunter2

Wow, it has been 15 months since they started building that house, bet you two will be glad when they are finished. Looking forward to those pics of the finished GH.

it feels even longer to us and I’m sure for them too. With rising costs of building materials when you can get them has also helped but they are doing more and more of the work themselves, being over watched by the general contractor/ but also a neighbor. so someday. It sure gave us a lot of weeds this summer that we never had here before, maybe they came in top soil that got dumped off earlier this summer. We’ll do more to remove them permanently next year, tried this summer but they kept reappearing it was almost just a waste of time.

[jjannie]

](20211113 left side — Postimages) Once filled up, they will be ready for early spring planting.

[wiperhunter2]

You guys decided to use corrugated metal for the sides of these new grow boxes, less chance of rotting and it looks great, I like it.