The sun is shining, it's warm out (19 C, 66 F), and everything is just wonderful. What a great day! I'm looking at our back yard where our new Solexx Conservatory greenhouse, which we purchased from MyGreenhouseKit.com, will be. This is a 16 L x 8 D x 9.5 H foot professional greenhouse and it will have 111 square feet of shelving. That's almost as many veggies as our grocer's produce section has!! I'm so please at the prospect of growing vegetables in our own backyard.
We've put stakes at each corner of the greenhouse's eventual location, and we've used my seldomely seen high school math skills to make sure that it is square. Pythagoras was my hero this weekend. The quare root of 16 ft squared plus 8 ft squared is about 17 ft 10.5 inches. Yeah...that looks about right.
We'll be digging up a rectangle in the lawn in order to build a border, and filling that with gravel, so we can get a good base to build the frame on. This will also allow for some easy drainage whent he inevitable rain and snowmelt starts to run. The uneveness of our lot is the reason we have to create a box for our surface. The lot slopes down towards the West, so we have to lift one end, lest our rounder vegetables roll to one end of the greenhouse. Geez, what a mess that would be.
Well, I'll post pictures as soon as I can. But I'm sure they won't do the project justice. This is gonna be big.
Take care, and I hope you're having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend too.
AndreD - AbiliTech.net
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