YAY, we got a break in the weather for a few days, and what better time to add more projects than when you're already overflowing with them so, I bought a Greenhouse! This one to be precise:
So how my marriage works is, I design everything, purchase the materials, and at that point pop the cork off the Genie Bottle, and Chris pops out asking: "What do you need me to build, Babe?" LOL This was no exception, and my hubby sprang into action.
We had to decide on a location. Because Florida gets super hot in the summer, putting a Greenhouse in the direct sun is a death sentence as far as I am concerned, and it would probably cook your plants in their pots. We opted to put ours in dappled sunlight where it gets more sun in the winter months but more shade in the summer.
Chris had to level the ground and put down landscaping fabric unless I wanted to bring the dreaded wild vines into the greenhouse and have them take over. Next up were the Greenhouse bones and the included irrigation system and last but not least, the tarp.
Our greenhouse has eight windows and two full-vented screened doors that you can all close or open as needed. The greenhouse itself went up really quickly. Chris hooked up the irrigation to a timer so that I didn't have to worry about forgetting to shut it back off and we moved some plants inside. At that point we called it a day.
Yesterday, we went to Home Depot and picked up some shelves. We added those to the greenhouse and promptly populated them.
Unfortunately, that's about all we got done because at that point, the weather got brutal, with a heat index over 103F every day and high humidity! There's always next week though..
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