New Mini Greenhouse

The mini-greenhouse we've been building is finally done and installed in the garden.

We had some leftover ribbed polycarbonate after we built Cindy's garden shed five years ago:  O.K., we had a LOT of polycarbonate left over, so when we saw a mini greenhouse in Indiana last year, we decided to use some of it to build a similar one for Cindy.

We used the same construction for the framework of this greenhouse that we used for the small cabinet we made for my flameworking propane tank last month.

We put a piano hinge at the back of the top piece so that the top can be lifted to control the heat inside the cabinet.  We also put an Elfa bracket along the top back rail and hung two standards and ventilated shelves from it.

Rather than having a solid bottom in the cabinet, Cindy stapled some hardware cloth to the bottom rails, which will keep the varmints out of the interior of the cabinet and will also allow any excess water to just drain down through it and into the soil below.  In fact, she had already hooked up her drip lines so that it's all ready to irrigate the plants she puts in it.

She also put down some concrete bricks under the legs to keep them from sinking into the ground; we were afraid that the gophers would undermine it.

Now we're just afraid they might like it so much that they'll decide to move into it.