Tomatoes

This is the north side of the greenhouse. I planted three tomato plants there. Two of them are Bio dynamic terry tomatoes and one is a variety grown in Romania. I know they look small now, but just wait until August! I will post another picture then and you will see why I only planted three plants here. I have twelve tomato plants in my other greenhouse, so we will see what kind of a harvest I get between the two greenhouses. Like the peppers, I save the seeds from the tomatoes each year.

Peppers

Here is a picture of some of the 42 sweet red pepper plants that I planted on the south side of the new greenhouse. I started these plants from seeds I save each year. I started these plants in the house in January. You have to start peppers early, because it takes a long time for them to grow. Many of the plants have buds on them and I am looking forward to a good pepper crop. Here in Central Alberta, the ONLY way to grow peppers is to grow them in a greenhouse!

Barrels

This picture was taken from the east side of the greenhouse with the door fully open.
The bottom two barrels are full of water and are for thermal mass. During the day, they absorb the heat and radiate it back to the greenhouse at night. The upper four barrels are for the drip irrigation system, which I will explain, with pictures in a later post.

West End with Door and Window / Vent

The next step was to build doors and windows and cover them with greenhouse plastic. the window/vent has an automatic opener that opens the window /vent as the temperature inside the greenhouse rises. This item was purchased from Lee Valley (http://www.leevalley.com/home.aspx). In this picture, the door is fully opened and pulled back against the greenhouse.

West End Plastic

Next, greenhouse plastic was added to each side of the door and above the window. Again, polyfastener was used.

Cross Bracing

Wire and a turnbuckle were used for cross bracing in four places. The turnbuckle was later covered with duct tape to protect the plastic

Greenhouse plastic

For less than $300, we purchased enough greenhouse plastic to build this greenhouse. We purchased this from Northern Greenhouse Sales. It is a Superstrong Woven Poly. We have had this on our other greenhouse for many years and it works GREAT!
We laid out the plastic, secured it to the south side of the greenhouse with polyfastener purchased, from Northern Greenhouse Sales, and pulled the other end up, over and down the other side of the greenhouse.