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POWERLEVELRISING1488 What DIY greenhouse do you like?

I'm going to build a greenhouse either in the very near term or next spring. I'm thinking about building a 100ft long hoop house with plastic wrapping, but it may need to stand up to high winds. So, I may have to go with glass. In any case, what kind of greenhouse would you build if you ready to build one now?

I'm going to build a greenhouse either in the very near term or next spring. I'm thinking about building a 100ft long hoop house with plastic wrapping, but it may need to stand up to high winds. So, I may have to go with glass. In any case, what kind of greenhouse would you build if you ready to build one now?

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That's a big greenhouse?

Plant some conifers upwind, plastic ones are pretty vulnerable to getting ripped.

Glass is so much nicer, last one I did I built a low wall for it to sit on, it gets it higher which sometimes helps with the sun, and you are not wasting so much glass by having the staging fill the bottom half. And it helps retain a bit of heat by warming the bricks. I've seen people add in black water barrels to the same effect

If you tile the floor you can jetwash it clean too, it helps keep the bugs down

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it'll probably be about 100 feet long and 10 feet wide or so

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nice, what are you planning on growing?

I guess that'll be too big for glass, some automated watering might be viable though

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not 100% decided yet. Lots of cabbage, broccoli, and radishes and lettuce, probably green beans and various medicinal herbs. Oh yes, I've been dying to program a raspberry pi for this project. I want to experiment with aeroponics too.

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I built a hoop-house that used PVC and 2x4's for a little extra structure and covered it with plastic. This was in a very-very high wind area and I was very concerned about it holding up. 7mil plastic sheet.

I only had it up for the season and to extend the season an extra few months. It held up very well and since the PVC was flexible it did not have problems with the wind even though it blew around like crazy.

At the highest point I think it was just over 8ft and was about 30ft long. It was around 18 ft wide. We had a great harvest that year for the footprint but moved away before the next season and took it down.

Im looking forward to building a new one when I have more land again and also building a large underground greenhouse that would be like a huge version of a cold frame.

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Nice, yeah i like that design.

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I would build this.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-greenhouse.html#more

Be sure to orient the solid wall north facing.

Traditional all clear greenhouses are silly, that whole north facing side gets no light, but loses much heat.

The crops you mentioned though like cold, so easy to grow all winter without added heat.

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Looks good.

Also air piping system deep into the earth, to regulate temperature, is great for winter.

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Also good, saw those in Minnesota. Though they do require electricity to work, not much , but some.