While I was out of state my husband was busy at home working on a project I am so excited for! I thought I wrote a blog post previously about our greenhouse, but I can’t find it anywhere, so I will now give you the run down and update.

A couple of winters ago my husband had some metal pipe driven into the swamp near our garden for a greenhouse. It will be lifted up above the swamp by about 2 feet on one end, 3 feet on the other, thus not disturbing the ecosystem of the swamp below, but also making the solar gain 360 degrees around the greenhouse.

My oldest son will be leaving to go on a mission for my Church soon, and he is an excellent welder. We needed him to weld on some collars for the beams to sit on that hold the floor. So while I was gone, they not only got that done, they also got the beams placed and the floor on.

All the materials are either things we made out of dead trees (the beams), or recycled lumber from a couple of different old buildings that got torn down or remodeled (the floor joists and rim and the floor plywood). I am not always grateful for my husband’s scrounging of materials, but I am happy he did, and that some of those materials will now be used.

The only purchased item so far for the floor is the ice/water shield that goes on the beams so they don’t rot out so quickly (hopefully not in our lifetime anyway). The next step is to mill more wood from the dead trees we have saved to make some framing materials for the walls and roof.

We have all the windows, my husband found them on Craig’s list years ago, and we’ve just had them sitting here forever. The final purchase will be greenhouse roofing material. I am so excited to be able to extend my growing season as well as grow some items that need much warmer weather to grow well here. I am hopeful that this will be finished up by the end of spring and that I can grow food in there this summer and fall!