Greenhouse problems, heat in summer you can use shade cloth over the
greenhouse or shade compound on outside of glazing. Will keep greenhouse
10-15 degrees cooler. In winter, use double glazing, insulation below benchs,
if axis is east west- insulate north, east, and west walls, also north roof.
There are many books on solar greenhouses that you can look into at the
library or book store. Also you can use large contaners full of water under
the benche to moderate the heat. Hope this helps. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harmon Seaver wrote
Yes, if you look in the "city gardening" especially the "container
gardening" pages of journeytoforever, you'll find a wealth of info on
truly viable gardening in tiny spaces. I'm playing around with the
concept found at http://journeytoforever.org/garden_con-mexico.html this
year. We have a very tiny lot here in the city, occupied almost totally
by a large house. I built a greenhouse on top of the 10'x20' brick
garage, replaced the garage door with glass french doors (which face
East) and converted the last half of the driveway (which is just two
concrete strips running along the South side of the house) into a tiny
herb garden. We dug the dirt out in the center down to two feet to get
rid of the decades of oil drippings and filled it with clean topsoil and
compost.
Ê ÊÊ The problem with the greenhouse is it just gets much too hot in the
Summer and not hot enough in the Winter, problems I'm working on, but
also we want to start using some of the large porch roof space for
container gardening. The ideas in the above site seem ideal, as they are
using very little dirt (greatly reducing weight) in the containers,
mostly leaves and grass clippings, human urine and worm castings.
,
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