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For the last week or two I've been working down in the barn; cleaning and organizing materials. More recently, I've been working on re-building a small greenhouse to help plants in the winter and to get an early start in the spring. I made one shortly after moving here:



I'll be the first to admit, it's utter crap. Just scraps of wood with screws, tape and pellet bags. Plenty of warped wood used so the end product was far crappier than what I had imagined. Added atop uneven benches... it sucked.

So with winter approaching and seeing as that I wanted to use the benches for sitting, I decided to re-do this pile of crap. I've spent the last few days on it and quite a bit of yesterday since I didn't have internet and here's what I came up with:



It may or may not be impressing to you but it sure as hell is impressing to me. Nothing was bought to build this. It's made of more scrap wood (an old deck no longer in use), bricks, deck screws, pellet bags, and some spare paint I had laying around (for water protection). I don't have power down at the barn so building was quite a task. I had to cut the wood down there by hand, align & level things down there, temporarily tack it with nails and then bring it all up to the house to properly screw together. Fortunately, it's two pieces but that was still a big task. Unlike my first attempt, this is completely level and sturdy as hell. The bricks will keep the temperature more consistent and help with water distribution. It is two-tiered with the bottom tier being enclosed (picture above isn't final). I'm going to add some old emergency thermal blankets inside (think aluminum foil) which will reflect light, keep heat in and also create an air pocket with the pellet bags. This whole thing should do damn good for the plants. I'm proud

Thanks, I sure hope it works. We'll find out lol.

Well, I have some young trees that will spend the winter in there then come the end of winter/early spring there will be some vegetable starts growing in there

Grow some vegetables. They might just make it.

Your Kind of Lucky if Vegetables will actually grow there.

I wanted a Orange tree when I was 6; by the time I was 9, The Plant had grown quite in the Large Pot we had, the Roots had overgrown and taken over every other pot nearby.
We had to cut them down and take the Plant Outside where it was set in the Soil in our Building, Its a Tree today.

But it never grew any oranges....
Yes it is a Orange Tree, some of the town folks we hired knew it from the leaves smell.

lol sorry for Changing my post.

I have a meyer (or meier?) lemon tree and it's inside in a pot and grows lemons slowly. There's 4 on it now but they're green and have been green for many months. Although, up until recently it was in a small pot and had bug issues which both have been fixed and it's quite happy now.