We’ve been busy, to say the least. Unfortunately not everything that has kept us busy has been related to the garden, farm or our self-reliant ways…but you have to pay the bills somehow 🙂
We FINALLY finished the greenhouse this weekend. Well, we still need to build some tables and things like that in there, and the upper windows are also not done, but we are done enough to actually use it now.
You may remember that in our last posts that it looked like this:
On Saturday we went to the home improvement store and bought the wood for the doors and windows as well as wood stain. We knew we wanted to treat the wood with something to help it last a bit longer after all our hard work and decided that we might as well go with a teak color for it to give it a bit more style and set it off a bit from the rest of the garden.
Naturally, the weekend we decide to do this is when the rains finally start to move in. It hasn’t rained here in at least a month and a half (literally) but when we start painting, it starts sprinkling. Thankfully it held off until Sunday evening and there was no damage to our stain.
Although Sunday is supposed to be a quiet day, we ventured into the garden armed with a hand staple gun (which thankfully is not too massively noisy and our neighbors have thankfully not complained about anything so far) and lots of plastic foil. Below is the finished product which went fairly quickly. We decided to tack the foil on the inside for the bottom part of the structure and then tacked the roof foil on top of the beams to make things easier and to give us the extra couple of inches of head room.
We even fitted the door with a latch outside so we don’t have to worry about the neighbor’s cats or any other animals wandering in there.
To say we are relieved to have this project finished is an understatement, even though we still need to construct potting benches and the windows for the top…as well as repair the roof since the recent rain was accompanied by some wind which tore the PVC sheeting mostly off. This project has taken us many, many man hours now and I think it’s safe to say that both of us hated pouring the foundation the most. And I regret to say that I have just realized that there are STILL 4-5 forty kilo bags of concrete in the back of my Defender. That task will actually be put on the to do list for tonight…those suckers have been in there long enough!
