Rails

There are two ways to plant a greenhouse. Planting in pots and planting directly in the ground. Both methods have pros and cons.

If you plant in pots, you limit the root size of your plants to the size of the pot, or you have to continually transplant into bigger and bigger pots.
However, it allows you to change the dirt you are planting into easily, because it is not good to plant the same thing in the same dirt year after year.

If you plant directly in the dirt, you do NOT limit the size of your plants, but it is harder to change the dirt. My husband solved that problem by building our greenhouses on rails, as you see in the picture. That way, we can move the greenhouse to one of two positions and plant the part not under the greenhouse with a different crop. We move our greenhouses every two years. I plant tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in the greenhouse. In the second position, I plant alternate crops such as onions or squash, things that do not require as much heat. In a later post, I will show how we move a greenhouse. The rails are a two 2"x6" lengths of lumber stood on their sides. They are held up by brackets that are made out of T bars with a metal piece welded to the top. The metal piece has two holes in it to take the bolts. The T bar brackets are driven into the ground to the appropriate depth, and the 2"x6" is bolted to it.