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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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