DIY Greenhouse Plan

DIY greenhouse is a house for you to experience your practical indoor organic gardening projects, and it can be included in your simple garden home plan.

Imagine, when the hot burning sun is approaching your plants, they will be growing happier if you provide a shed to them. When the winter season is long, you can start seedlings a little earlier if you have a green house.

When you have a little place, you may wish to build a greenhouse to fit exactly to your own garden measurements. We called it as "Measure and make"!

Before building, you have to decide which sort of house is suitable for the plants you intend to shelter in it: the importance is, which types of plants are sitting in the house with which types of growing temperature.

How to build a greenhouse with some low cost, protective, long lasting; and durable greenhouse materials?

Our 'Photo Frame' green house concept is as simple as our backyard goldfish pond design. It is a supper flexible green house plan, which you can easily build it, extend it or converting it into any kind of garden houses any time you wish with the easy mounting wooden frames.

DIY Greenhouse Building

Greenhouse Building

Build a greenhouse complete structure plan with covering materials and designs for your gardening plan consideration

Greenhouse Materials

This garden greenhouse is running north and south, at a sunny corner.
A fair roomy structure, with a 15° low angle roof. We cannot build a higher roof as there are housing rules to follow. Otherwise; we would have done it with a 45° angle.

The advantage of low roof is the plants can catch the earliest rays of the morning sun in the early spring; when they are placed near to the roof. The disadvantage for low angle is, it incurs a liability to drip. But this is hardly a trouble for us.

Heavy roof is never our choice as we both cannot handle heavy stuffs. Instead of installing all the expensive heating and cooling systems,
we decided to leave it as natural.

DIY Greenhouse can be a Lean to Greenhouse

Our close to nature fresh-air greenhouse consists of a semi-clear plastic roof, wooden blocks floor, and three open sides.

The north side is lean to our neighbour's garden house.
The west side is lean to our wooden garden hedge.
The front side is sheltered with our garden store room.

So only the east side is widely open and exposed to the full direct sunlight from the nature.

Green House Materials

5 pieces of garden wood lumbers from 3.5 x 7 cm
for inner roof supports;
8 pieces of garden wood bars from 7x7 cm
for the 7 posts supported from the ground and 1
in the middle for the west and east joint;
5 pieces of flat garden wood lumbers from
300 (L) x 15 (W) x 2 (D) cm for the indoor roof
supports under the plastic sheets;
7 pieces of garden wood strips to secure the
roof top outdoor;
7 rust-proof iron plates for the joints;
6 rust-proof iron wraps for the posts;
1 roll of 2 x 15 meters recyclable Polyethylene Screen;
Plastic sheets for the roof top.

Helping Tools

A rechargeable electric power drill;
A Tape measure;
A Level or a balancing ruler

DIY Greenhouse is using the Perfect Materials

We had tried plastic covering before and it was not to our satisfaction. Because our intention is to grow all kinds of plants all year round.

With the plastic covering, the greenhouse often heated up like a stove in the summer; even the door is widely opened. The plastic were easily damaged by the free running cats; they made holes into the plastic sheets when they climbed.

We were looking for a nearest to nature environment for our indoor organic plants all these while. We finally found a perfect greenhouse covering material 'Green Recyclable Polyethylene Screen (shade cloth)' last year.

Small DIY Greenhouse can use a Creative Design

Since the atmosphere of a small house is quickly influenced by changes of outdoor temperature. So, natural ventilation is definitely essential; especially in the hot summer weather.

This visible screen protects against wind, dust, and heavy rain.
The most important is, it is environment friendly, tear and weather resistant, and UV stable. It is durable and inexpensive too.

There are two sizes of recyclable Polyethylene Screen in the shop. They are either 1 meter (W) x 15 meters (L) or 2 meter (W) x 15 meters (L). We had still left over to make our house indoor window screens.

A DIY Greenhouse is your Flowering Plant's Protector

With this fantastic material, you don't have to worry of the extreme power from the sun, the wind, the snow, and the rain. With the indoor rain barrel, you don't have to worry of the humidity in the air. You don't have to worry for the light and the natural heat. This greenhouse can be used for both cold and warm weathers.

In the winter season you just do the normal winter protections for the plants as though they are living outdoors. We discovered that, those home used aluminium foils and microwave pricked plastic sheets work best for the extreme winter temperatures; if you are on very low budget.

The greatest benefit is the plants are sheltered from most of the insects and butterflies; and they can grow happily without most of the garden pests.

A DIY greenhouse can Shelter your Small Trees

Let the house be wide enough in the first instance. You may increase its length to any extent when space and budget allows.

This completed greenhouse's measurement is 225 cm (H) x 420 cm (W) x 240 cm (D).

Mark out the four corners, set your long posts one at each end, stretch the lines one near the top and the other at the base.

The wood lumbers are 240 cm in length. Except the front and back center piece are 225 cm above ground to make the point of the top roof into the 15° angle. The rest of the five posts are 200 cm above ground. They are screwed firmly with a sharp end rust-proof iron plates. Insert this sharp end into the ground to the depth of about 30 cm. Make them straight and secured.

a DIY Greenhouse can Protect your Organic Vegetables

When the posts and the outer frames are completed, screw all the anchor blocks together. Layout 6 pieces of 3.5 x 7 cm wood west and east and join them to the center piece of 7x7 cm bar.

Layout your 5 pieces of wood lumbers from 300 (L) x 15 (W) x 2 (D) cm across the front and back top bars to complete the frame construction.

Fix them to the posts firmly. Thereafter, start with your roof covers. Lay the plastic sheets piece by piece overlapping each other and balance them with the Level ruler. When they sit good, fix them to the wood and screw the wood strips above them.

Fix the screens last with the 3 cm width thin wood strips and fasten them on the screen sheets.

Make a door with a green screen with locks, if you wish. And the door should never be built at the same sides of the house which the wind comes.

DIY greenhouse is ready for your worry free indoor organic garden!

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