Advice on my "greenhouse/bus stop" photo

[ninnymary]

I am hoping it will look more like a greenhouse and less like a bus stop, as we progress. Maybe?

Oh Lesa, don't change it's looks. I think part of it's charm is that it does look like a bus stop. Think of how many people have one. It would be an original.

Mary

 

[TanksHill]

That is the coolest thing ever. I say accentuate it's character. How the heck did you move it?

g

 

[digitS']

Don't give up on craigslist. I check mine everyday- and a few times a year I find something fabulous!
The thing I am not understanding about greenhouse vs cold frame, is the hardening off part. Do I need to treat the plants, like they have been in the house? Obviously, the cold frame plants are automatically hardened off- but not so in the greenhouse, right?

Nope, hardening off does not occur in the greenhouse.

S'

 

[lesa]

Tanks, I had this vision when we were moving it. I saw a headline-"woman crushed under bus stop!" It was a close one! The guy we bought it from had a grade all, and he put it on our trailer. Getting if off was difficult. We used our old Ford tractor and struggled. Dh is an engineer, so he can figure these things out! It was definitely touch and go!

 

[hiker125]

This is one of the best examples of re-purposing that I have seen in a long while.


Keep the inspirations coming, Lesa.

 

[boggybranch]

Don't look like ya need to do a whole lot of changing, to me. Maybe, put up a sign in front of it that says......."Lesa's Bud Stop"

 

[digitS']

It has been tempting to stop and get a feel for the inside of a bus stop (Bud Stop - I like that!)!

Let me tell you, Lesa, what I did with the interior of my 9' by 20' greenhouse/sunshed:

- a shelf, wide enough (12") for flats turned sideways, was placed against the south wall and only about 1' above the floor.

- a bench, wide enough (36") for flats turned sideways in one row and lengthwise in another row, was placed in the middle of the building. The bench is short enough that I can walk around one end.

- a shelf, wide enough (12") for flats turned sideways in one row, was placed above the bench. This shelf is high enough that it does not shade the bench during March and early April. The same vertical supports (4 by 4's) which hold the bench along one side are also extended above it to hold the high shelf. (Actually, they also bear the weight of the roof.)

Steve
edited to add the measurements, and to say: I also line up flats under the bench .