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  • From: "SHEILA PAYNE" <srp75 AT msn.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] greenhouse recommendations?
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 13:56:47 -0700

I have one of these, the smallest size, that I bought at our county fair.  They had it as a demo and so I got it cheaper.  I really wish now that I had a larger one.  It's great. http://www.geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com/index.php 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:30 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] greenhouse recommendations?

Actually I liked the last one fine enough.  Really no judgement one
way or the other.  I bought it through the local greenhouse supply
company, Wetsel.  It was sort of a project in process. I like to
think of it as an educational project in the nature of evolution.

When I started farming over a decade ago I began seedlings in the
window sills of the house.  And then a plastic, pvc lento against the
side of the house.  Then a larger leanto.  And then a larger one
still and then a sort of make do pvc greenhouse.  Finally I bought a
48 foot kit from Wetsel which I erected with my son-in-law.  Then
added 24 more feet and then added another 24 feet.

At first I heated with little electric heaters, using electric
blankets, and more electric blankets covered by plastic.  Then I
switched to heat tape for the seedlings, then propagation mats.

For the leanto when needed I bought an electric space heater and ran
the cord from the house. Once I bought the kit, at first, I  put in
an old wood stove with the stack going out through a hole in the
roof.  Then a bigger woodstove with old house fans blowing the heat.
Then greenhouse fans.  Once the greenhouse got to 96 feet I bought a
Modine heater.  Finally when I became more prosperous as a farmer and
upgraded the heating system in the our home from a woodstove to an
outside wood gasification boiler (this is my guess where the fire
started, from a spark out of the chimney landing in the dry kindling
I had just split the day before laying on the ground outside the
woodshed) with radiators and radiant floor heat I changed the heat in
the greeenhouse to hot water tubing running down the tables in the
greenhouse. a couple weeks ago I added a flash fire propane heater so
I could leave home and didn't always have to be out there stuffing
the firebox.

Farmtek - I have three 100 foot by 10 foot hoophouse from farmtek.
They are definitely the cheapest and the ones I have are fine enough
but located too far away from the house, without electricity or much
water.  The Wetsel greenhouse is, I believe,  a
Northern Star and probably, unless something else comes highly
recommended I'll just get another one.




At 11:57 AM -0600 12/22/06, TxBeeFarmer wrote:
>I know Farmtek has a wide variety to choose from.  Could you tell us more
>about the one you had.  It might help the rest of us if you also say what
>you didn't like about the old one.  Got any pictures?
>
>TxBeeFarmer
>West Texas Zone 7b
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Leigh Hauter" <lhh AT hughes.net>
>To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:21 PM
>Subject: [Market-farming] greenhouse recommendations?
>
>
>>  Last night we just had a disaster  (but, of course, it could have
>>  been worst). A fire somehow started next to a shed (I was not home),
>>  which caught my woodpile which heated up the propane tanks, (that's
>>  about when I came home) which blew, torching my 32X96 greenhouse and
>>  contents.  ( found out that one gallon of propane equals ten sticks
>>  of dynamite).  Fortunately the wind was blowing away from our home
>>  and fortunately we stuccoed our house several years back so the only
>>  damage to our home, sitting 70 feet away, were windows cracked from
>>  the heat.
>>
>>  So the question is, if I'm going to start over again (and the thought
>>  makes me ill) but with all the toxic chemicals of the melted plastic
>>  and burnt flats (did you know potting soil burns?) in and around the
>>  old greenhouse I don't see rehabing it.  I think I had better start
>>  over at a new location.  What make of greenhouse do people recommend?
>>  What shape?  The last one was about the right size for the seedlings
>>  I need to start in the spring. Do people have a favorite. My last one
>>  was heated by a woodboiler  which was cheap on fuel with hot water
>>  running in pipes along the growing tables.  Are there better ideas?
>>
>>  Any good ideas would be helpful.
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