Showcase Sunday, My First Greenhouse Building project

Hello, and welcome to my steem blog!

For this Showcase Sunday post, I'd like to present a post that I did more than a year ago. Steemit doesn't tell me the date of the post, but I believe that it's from some time in the first half of December of 2018.

I chose to feature this post because I know that there are people on steem that have not seen the post but might be interested in this small greenhouse building project. In the original post, I talk about, and show the process of building the greenhouse.
This is the link to the original post.
https://steemit.com/greenhouse/@amberyooper/my-first-greenhouse-building-project

I started building this greenhouse in the fall of 2011, and I managed to get a lot of the framing work done by spring of 2012. I finished putting together the greenhouse that spring, and used it as it was until 2015 when I put an addition onto it to double it's size. It was originally a 6 foot by 8 foot floor space. I have almost no pictures of the outside of the greenhouse before I started on the expansion project, so I had to use this picture.
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I doubled the size of the greenhouse in 2015 to 6 feet by 16 feet of floor space, with the long walls running east/west so that I had 16 feet of south facing front wall.
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In 2016, we built a new, larger greenhouse with a higher roof and tore down the old greenhouse. The area where the old greenhouse was is now a raised bed. We left the back wall of the greenhouse in place to serve as a wind brake for the raised bed.
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That's all I have for this post. I hope you'll find it interesting and worth reading.
Thanks for stopping by my blog to check out this post!

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That was interesting reading about the evolution of your greenhouses. Maybe some day I will write of the start of my first one.....

Cool idea leaving the back wall to create a little micro climate.

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Thanks!
Writing about your greenhouse project is a good idea for the homestead community. :-)

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