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Hobby Greenhouse Plans

2011-12-19T14:02:00.000-08:00

If you've ever searched for plans for a greenhouse to build you've probably run across plenty of sites that are offering greenhouse plans, but what they don't let you know right away is that the 'plans' they are offering aren't for free greenhouse plans, but greenhouse kits. Meaning you have to pay for the greenhouse. Don't be fooled by these fly-by-night operators trying to deceive you into purchasing a greenhouse.

There are thousands of people every year that build their own greenhouse from scratch. Many of them often share how to build a greenhouse on their personal pages, but those greenhouse plans can sometimes get buried by the swindlers, making it hard for the average user to find them.

Building your own DIY greenhouse isn't hard. It doesn't require a whole lot of experience to design your own and build it. You can build them out of PVC also. Actually, PVC greenhouses are one of the most popular greenhouses with greenhouse gardeners and you can find tons of PVC greenhouse plans if you look real hard. You don't have to use greenhouse plastic on your PVC greenhouse, but your covering will last much longer if you do and you can find it at virtually any greenhouse supply house. However you decide to build a greenhouse, just make sure you have fun building it and using it.

Composting and Compost

2011-12-17T17:46:00.000-08:00

I love composting! I love the earthy smell of compost. And I love watching things that I would normally just throw into my garbage can develop into nutrient rich organic matter that my plants just can't get enough of. The worms in my garden love it. Even my cats like scratching in it when I'm not watching, but that's another story altogether.

Benefits of Composting

Composting your compostable wastes helps build soil fertility. Even if you just have a few flower beds or maybe grow your own tomatoes every year, compost will help them grow better. Using compost also prevents you from having to use more chemical fertilizers. And using less chemical fertilizer is always a good thing. The less chemical fertilizers that are being used means less of them being leached into our lakes and streams. That would be the water that we eventually consume.

My compost pile is always working too. I'm constantly burying banana peels, coffee grounds, egg shells and cardboard scraps in my compost pile. I have a pretty simple collection routine whereby I gather my composting materials in old coffee cans (the plastic ones - Reduce, Recycle, Reuse). When one of the coffee cans gets filled up, I take it out to the compost pile and dig a small hole right down in the middle. Then just dump the kitchen scraps in the hole and bury. I turn mine a few times a month to keep it well aerated. It's not a hot compost pile by any stretch of the imagination, but it does break down and I always have extra worms for my spring fishing expeditions to fill the freezer with bluegill. Can you think of a reason not to make your own compost now?

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2011-02-23T03:03:00.001-08:00

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