Greenhouse Part One

 One of the deficiencies in having our garden 40 miles away at the farm is that we don't have access to a greenhouse. There is a greenhouse there but without daily care, it is for the most part useless to us. Having a greenhouse would allow us to raise things from seed to provide earlier crops before the dry months of late summer hit or longer season stuff like peppers. My wife also dreams of sticking some house plants out there in the summer months instead of living all their lives indoors. 

When we purchased this property, I moved in with a tiny 16" push mower which wasn't up to the task of keeping up over 2 acres of lawn on steep slopes. The people we bought the house from gave me the phone number to their mower guy and I gave him a call. His price was such that to buy a new mower would probably take five to six years of paying him to pay off. As it turned out with several dry years in there, it was closer to eight. I would eventually like to get a mower to do it myself but I have no place to store one. My garage is full of woodworking stuff and other things and I don't want to just leave it outside under the weather. A storage shed would make the most sense.

So, after kicking the idea around, we decided that the only feasible option is to build a greenhouse/storage shed somewhere out behind our house. I drew up a detailed plan of the design and then we went out there to stick some flags in the ground just to get an idea of scale because everything looks much bigger in a computer than in real life. We measured and placed flags and immediately decided it was too small. It would have worked but just and anyone knows, when you build a building, you need to build it bigger than you need and that still won't be big enough. So I increased it four feet in length. I think this will be much better and rid our garage of a lot of lawn/garden type stuff. But due to the last minute change of plans, all my details need to be redone and I haven't done them yet. The model above however will give you the gist of things. Storage on the left with ample space for a riding lawn mower and other tools and a greenhouse on the right.