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The recycled greenhouses this year.

20 years ago

Last year I posted pictures of the greenhouses we built. This year DH made them bigger and better. I won't have to step quite so carefully in there now! All of the materials in them except for the 6 mil plastic we cover them with came from somebody's trashpile. I thought ya'll might like to see how they look this year, the picture is a link to the web page I made to show them off.

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Nigella
Original Author
20 years ago
Well, that was fun.
Pudgy
20 years ago
Thanks for the picture. I have done something similar
regarding recycled materials. I got PVC pipe (3/4 40 sch)
free from a completed project, and bought the elbows
as well as the 4 mill (too thin, will do 6 mil this next
week, as the 4 mil already tore in a couple places).

I made square hoops, hung them from stakes and made a
nice 'little' greenhouse. Free is great, almost free
is good, I'm doing good :)

Pudgy
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