Market Farming

[Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>]

I agree with Steve about the giant exterior wood burner with a boiler/ radiator which I would use as bench heat and ebb and flow irrigation.   But just today I was lugging the first of endless loads of damp wood to a hungry old woodstove which occupies an annoying amount of growing space.  (The stove is a supplement to a gas Modine)  Plus, if the ventilation fans come on during a sunny day, they pull the smoke back into the greenhouse....lots of fun.
 
I also agree that finding a local vendor  for the structure is a good idea.  And this : don't skimp on ventilation/ horizontal air flow fans/motorized shutters. (I once had to use old furnace fans hung by chains from the roof across a 3000 foot house.  Goofy)  The National Greenhouse Manufacturer's Association has a manual of specs that you can printout...helps to calculate ventilation, snowload et al.  Currently I use inflated poly  house with a gravel floor  that rocks and rolls in average winds.  Sometimes I page through the specs manual the way other women might look at a jewelry catalogue.  I do recommend that you build as much space as you can afford; you will surely find a way to fill it up.
 
Shawnee, zone 5 and searching for that old tarp to cover the wood pile


> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:14:39 -0500
> From: farmersue AT verizon.net
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Market-farming] greenhouses
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> What greenhouses do you all think are the best ones? And what about wood
> stoves in them?
> Thank you all very much.
> Sue
> Vermont
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