Flower bed with spinach |
Winter is here. Well, maybe it's officially fall, but today felt like a regular Bakersfield winter day. Today's goal was to get the old plants out of the garden. Why you might ask? Tuesday morning we had frost. That's right. That detrimental layer of thin ice all over the world. Or just our area.
Luckily, last weekend, I recruited hubby to help me build a small greenhouse for my spinach. The broccoli is planted somewhere else, so I decided to just leave them where they were and cover them. More on that later.
Scrap lumber |
Table Saw |
The kids with our new mini greenhouse |
He also said this lumber isn't pretreated so this greenhouse will probably only last this winter. Next year I will buy either some steel or pretreated lumber.
Make sure you get enough staples to hold it and not near the edge. The wood will splinter near the edge. Also, don't staple wood knots. Below are a couple pictures of what happens... Oops.
And our final greenhouse for the greenhouse. It will house two spinach plants and my potted strawberries. It's not much, but I'm starting small so I can learn.
I used a hand staple gun to adhere the plastic sheet. It might take two people to make sure it's tight. If you can wrap an odd Christmas present, then you'll have no problem wrapping a greenhouse.
Broccoli and Spices before cover |
I had to buy more plastic sheeting, but for just a quick "greenhouse" cover, I threw plastic sheeting over the tomato cages and held it down with leftover lumber. Luckily, we still had some. The plants are doing much better and with keeping the tomato cages on the broccoli, it gives the plants much more breathing room inside.
Broccoli and Spices with cover |
Try a PVC frame.
ReplyDeleteYou can just stick the pieces together and drape the plastic.
Take it apart for storage and moving.
1" pipe will work but 2" would be more sturdy.
If you use 1" pipe plan to anchor them in the ground about a foot.
You have 90 degree and 45 degree connectors so you can build the same shape that you have.
Thanks! I was going to use the PVC pipe, but didn't want to make a special trip to the store. I just used what we had. It was great fun using the power tools!
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