I got this green house from Steve’s Greenhouses, www.stevesgreenhouses.com Installing it took some real effort as the area I had available was forested, not level and covered with brush. A Track Hoe took swift care of that. Here I discuss some ideas I have for solar heat storage, the person I mentioned is Steven Harris (different from the Green House Steve) his site is http We will provide a lot more updates as we use the greenhouse and equip it.
Well, at least you didn’t have to dig too deep to install your footings…
If you need more heat, why not simply paint the back wall in black?
Cool green house. Much bigger than my little 6X6 unit. Now you have made me want to upgrade. Keep up the good work.
@survivalpodcasting Jack … LOL about the ROCK … one foot down in the ground, You live there and you know…. my dad is from Arkansas and so were my grandparents and folks all the way back to before the civil war (1 union and 3 confederates, but who’s counting? LOL) … anyway … whew, a lot of Arkansas and Missouri (where I use to be from once upon a time) has a lot of ROCK and not very far down, especially anywhere NEAR the Ozarks, Ouachita (wash it taw) etc etc.
hey jack!!! nice to see you on youtube. love listening to survival podcasting for a long time now
Wow the paint jobs crap 🙂
Nice work Jack! Thanks for all you do! Keep up the good work. Can’t wait till next summer to see what it all develops into. Take care
Jack meant to say Winter Solstice not summer.
had a similar one the oklahoma wind destroyed it in 2 weeks
Sure all it would have taken was explosives. It is so easy to look at stuff and say what someone should do. The reality is about 12 inches down you hit flat white quartz and granite. Not rocks but rock slab.
you should have dug deep trenches with a back hoe and put the corregated PE pip in them and draw heat from the ceiling and heat up the ground under the green house. you could use a solar cell to run some efficient 12 volt blowers on each tube.
You might try putting 5 drums of water against that back wall and then with a little plywood, instant benches for your seed trays that will benefit from the heat that the water will store up. I say 5 drums since your structure is 10 ft wide and drums are usually 24+/- inches wide. 275 gallons of water (2280lbs) can hold a rather large amount of heat. A question, is the poly cover HDPE?
Nice.
– Also from talking to a lot of people I am really getting off the aquaponics band wagon, it appears to be a LOT more trouble then it is worth.
– That is the entire point of the 8 inches (about a ton) of gravel. That is why I want Steve’s opinion before I put in the gravel, if it isn’t worth it fine, but right now it be a LOT easier then after the gravel goes in, the gravel is going in one way or another.
Your problem will be keeping the plants warm at night. You need a mass to hold that heat from your solar collector especially in the evening and colder/overcast days, perhaps a tank with aquaculture?