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To: nw_arizona_granny
"All good ideas, I have to laugh at the mulch, as it is gone from my yard by day break."

Hmmm. There is a cheap, black, coarse cloth that I've used over foundation drains (over perforated pipe that goes around foundations--keeps silt from clogging the drains). Maybe something like that would help to retain outdoor soil around plants. I'm not sure.

I'm going to try polycarbonate glazing for greenhouses and some short solar walls under windows. The following site is the first one that I found, so the glazing (polycarbonite plastic) can probably be had for lower costs. It also appears that each price at the following site is for several sheets of the stuff (5 or so?). It comes in twin-wall...

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1023-1--TwinWall-6mm.Htmhttp://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1023-1--TwinWall-6mm.Htm

three-wall...

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1021-2--Heat-Saver-3-Wall-6mm.Htm

four-wall...

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1024-3--4-Wall-8mm-Polycarbonate.Htm

...and another kind for roofing greenhouses.

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1022-4---IR-Infrared-TwinWall-Roof-Panels-6mm.Htm

...and hardware to fasten it together. I'll probably build far tougher framing than what they're selling for it, but the bar caps might be alright. Hopefully the panels will bend enough for me to build greenhouses in quonset hut shapes. ...and snow fences and berms (for slowing down the wind).


92 posted on 02/09/2009 5:18:43 AM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: familyop

You are on the right track, be sure they are strong enough to support hanging pots, as soon it will be full of plants and that means “hang them up”.

When I started in greenhouses they were redwood and glass panes, a pain, as you used white wash on the glass in the summer and then removed it.

Later came a Saran cloth screen, that we bought, by how much of the light we needed.

On the mountain, I did the roof in that corrugated fiberglass from the lumber yard. The walls were used windows that i got a good buy on.

Here we used the corrugated fiberglass to build them with and regular lumber for supports.

When the wind pattern changed for my place, it took the roof off the greenhouse and I can no longer garden, so did not replace it.

I think that over the years, I tried as many things as I could think of to get a mulch on this ground and in it , about all my ideas got me was scorpions under them and other bugs hiding.


101 posted on 02/09/2009 5:48:36 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?page=1 [Survival,food,garden,crafts,and more)
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