Portable Mini Greenhouse

Portable Mini Greenhouse CROPS Miscellaneous Dick and Min Verstraete’s portable greenhouse made from an old 2-wheel snowmobile trailer gives them a head start on garden plants in the spring     The couple’s high-altitude location near Anaconda Mont means that they have early and late frosts “We use the portable greenhouse to move bedding plants into the garage at night and then bring them out again during the day ” Dick explains “We can move it around our yard to wherever it’ll get the most sun ”     The tilt-bed unit is 8 by 6 ft and sits just over a foot off the ground Verstraete added a framework of 3/4-in electrical conduit pipe on the side and used greenhouse plastic to enclose the mini-greenhouse     The plastic is stapled between two strips of wood which is then attached to the pipe with short-neck screws     “We used 6-mil vapor barrier plastic but it only lasts a couple of years because of sunlight deterioration and wind ” Dick says “Fiberglass sheeting would be better because it’s more permanent and isn’t damaged by the wind ”     Around the open back of the greenhouse there’s a wooden frame panel which raises up the bottom lip height to discourage rodents and deer from entering     “When it’s unhooked and parked we use bricks to block it for stability ” he says “It cost very little to build and has served us well ” he adds     Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Dick and Min Verstraete 520 Wildlife Lane Anaconda Mont 59711 ph 406 563-6955; Greatgray1958@gmail com

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