An update on the Greenhouse Project. Last night we made our "Decision" on which model of which company we were going to get it from. The winner is the SunGlo 7'6" by 12'6". We will raise it up a foot high on a wing wall, so that it is high enough to hang basket where they will not bonk my head while I work (That idea coutesy of GW Greenhouse Forum!).

I am thinking I can also raise salad green through the winter in bins under the shlves, utilizing the 1' wingwall for the bins they will grow in that gets the seeds and veggies up into the sunlight.

THis is the choice I made last year, and after hours of perusing internet sites, including the GW Greenhouse Forum and they led me right back to it. IT has nice curved roof panels that snow should slide right off of, and they are molded as one piece for each section so that should decrease potential leaks and wind problems. It will be set on concrete and sealed to keep NBF out and has a nice screened storm door. I beleive these are produced about 20 miles from us, and I have walked through one at last years garden show. They come complete with benches, automatic vent, heater, lights, fan, hoses, drip tubing,shade cloth and a dry sink for potting all for around $4000. (That is with tax included). We plan to add a faucet just outside the doorway, with indoor hose connection and screened drain in the floor.

THe area is now pretty well cleared and we are laying the landscape cloth to cover the whole driveway circle and kill off the perennial bindweed (Wild morning glory.) I moved my errant raspberries and boysenberries all back against the outside fence and pruned them. They are in a 24" wide bed so will have to ruthlessly root out remaining morningglory and nettle that has invaded the area.I should inset a barrier. Last weekend my hubby cut down the diseased and dangerous leaning madrona tree, and a couple of wild cherries that seed indiscriminately in the area. We dug up the old raised bed of Rhubarb and got it transplanted.

Next we need to have the water line brought out from under the house on the other side of the driveway and into position, and the same with the electricity. THey will be buried in conduit under the ground. THen I need the gravel to top it up with and a cement contractor to pour the slab and put up the foundation. We are not sure where the money is coming for that part...may be eating split peas and beans for the next few months, LOL. DH is taking all the overtime he can get.

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I am so excited to finally be getting my "puttering place" for our dark but mild winters. I really wanted a nice screen house on a slab that was an extension of the greenhouse slab but I think I better not ask for it now. However, when the money shows up (How? Don't know!) I want to build one that is about 8 by 10 and raised the same amount but seperated by a small patio area from the greenhouse. That would become the amies summer home, and be all nicely sealed to the cement pad with screened door, and as I mentioned before, once the amies go back inside, it would make a nice mouseproof "root celler" for food storage until the freezing weather comes (Some year we hardly have any, other years we would have to move any remaining fruit into the garage for the duration of the freeze, or insulate the bins with styrofoam panels and lids.

We will see now how long it take my Dh to contact and find the contractors we need. Both of us have too many arthritic joint problems to tackle the heavy work ourselves, but I think if we can get our son up here for a weekend we could assemble the greenhouse when it arrives.

I am excited by it all, not just the fact that I got him to sit down with me and help make a final decision on it, and managed to keep him from stressing out too badly :-)

TO see my greenhouse, google "SunGLo greenhouse. I beleive it is model 1000D),