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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Greenhouse/coldframe/cloche glazing. WAS:Re: CSA year round production for Western WA
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:23:48 -0500 (EST)



On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Elizabeth Pike wrote:

> > You might also try: Solar Gardening : Growing Vegetables Year-Round the
> > American Intensive Way by Leandre Poisson. You can check it out on amazon

I have this book, excellent.

> I just checked this out of the library-thank goodness-I'd be bored silly
> with all this snow & nothing to do, well, I could go mop the floor, finish
> the laundry, organize a closet, NOT!

Help us build a new market farming resources website. I've got a new URL
http://metalab.unc.edu/dirtfarm, even an email ID to connect to a webforum
for file descriptions alongside a file (pix, sound/document
upload/view/download area: dirtfarmer AT metalab.unc.edu; also:
market-gardening AT metalab.unc.edu. We need FAQs, pix, info and
links/descriptions of related websites, recommended reading lists,
tool/equipmen/materialst sourcelists.

> I'd really like to experiment with the cones they build, but can't locate
> the fiberglass sheets. All I can find are the corrugated ones, which cannot
> be rolled into a cone.

I was just going to post about greenhouse glazing options, sources,
construction methods. Got curious about polycarbonate and did a websearch.
It seems that polycarbonate is better to use than fiberglass; better UV
and weather protection. Comes in sheets of different thicknesses as well
as double and triple wall greenhouse glazing panels.
Here are the two first URL's I ran across:

This one has an outlet in Asheville NC
SPS Corporation
http://www.spscorp.com
(look for dealers who sell retail)
Nexus Greenhouses Systems
204 Cross Street
Darlington, SC 29532
1-803-395-1509
Nexus Greenhouses Systems
#7 Lawterdale Circle
Asheville, NC 28804
1-704-253-9006

This one seems to do online mail order via Thomas Register website.
United States Plastic Corporation
1-800-809-4217
United States Plastic Corp.
1390 Neubrecht Road, Lima, Ohio 45801
Phone: 1-800-809-4217
Fax: 1-800-854-5498
http://www.thomasregister.com/olc/usplastic/sheet29.htm

Be sure to watch Norm Abrams "New Yankee Workshop"
on PBS TV this coming Saturday/Sunday
He will be constructing a medium sized freestanding
greenhouse glazed with flat polycarbonate sheets

You'll probably learn a lot about working with
polycarbonate in this particular show.

LL

Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm
metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
metalab.unc.edu/permaculture PermaSphere
metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm AGINFO
lflondon AT mindspring.com london AT metalab.unc.edu







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