Looking At A Small Greenhouse Kinda Like Dad’s

Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 5:36 am

That’s mom and dad on the left. Dad was a real handyman who was always helping his neighbours. When he retired he became even more active I think.

I went to visit him one summer and saw that he had a greenhouse out back. I asked him about it and as we walked out to see it he told me he built it.

The entire greenhouse was constructed from windows he collected from homes that had windows replaced or which had been torn down.

Now you might think that looked like a mess but it didn’t he did a great job. Before he started he stripped and cleaned each window frame. Then once he had everything aligned and matched he fastened it all together with strips of wood as a frame and painted it. Wish I had a picture.

Finding A Small Affordable Greenhouse

Image by azmichelle via Flickr

Now that we have had a vegetable garden and learned a little about growing flowers as well as veggies I’d like to have a little greenhouse. I have tried growing starter plants from seed and we just don’t have enough direct light.

What I really need is to either redo the windows in the house, which isn’t in the budget, or a greenhouse. I vote for the greenhouse and I don’t have the construction skills or energy required to construct my own like dad did, so I’ve been looking at greenhouses on eBay.

I’ve seen a couple of greenhouses that were small, about 5×4 but one of those would go great attached right to the south side of our shed/garage, right along side of the clematis trellis.