Gardening projects primarily facilitating the gardening process.

I've now built a homemade greenhouse, seven 16' x 4' deep tilled raised beds, some crude cold frames, and shortly hope to build a very low cost rolling compost bin.  On the pages below I'll be documenting these gardening projects hopefully saving you some time and money!

A homemade, easy to build greenhouse

I cheated a bit on this one and purchased a kit for a 12' x 24' gothic arch greenhouse; but the kit only provides some basic parts, piping and plastic.  I had to purchase wood for framing and build the foundation as well.  I created the foundation on a moderately steep wet location.  I added a foundation drainage system to keep the greenhouse foundation dry.  We want to do winter gardening, so half the foundation is a topsoil blend while the other half is "1/2 minus" crushed stone allowing for drainage, but also supporting tables and other gardening equipment.  If you click on the link for the homemade greenhouse the page may be a little slow opening, there are several photos.  The available ready made buildings do seem to have pretty high prices.

Raised bed gardens using 4" x 4" x 16' hemlock to save time

We now have seven soon to be eight 4' x 16' raised bed deep tilled garden planters.  Hemlock is the 3rd rot proof wood after cedar and redwood.  Here in Pennsylvania I can buy a rough cut 4" x 4" x 16' piece of hemlock for about $9.00.  So for about $70 excluding soil I can have a very nice rot tolerant raised bed garden.

Garden Book Reviews

Typically brief and usually only of garden books we liked.

Hope this helped,
Bob

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