Re: Greenhouse

Barbara, about five years ago I built one here in Kansas City in my back
yard, while recovering from quadruple bypass surgury...and it has proven a
very good one.  It was 14 degrees night before last and everything was cozy,
with Geraniums, a couple of kinds of Coleus and some germinting ornamental
grasses for the garden next year.  I have split it with a draping, a
painting drape, and am heating it with a elecrtic space heater hooked to a
thermostat set at 45 degrees and activated by a probe in the box with the
germinating grasses.  It hasn't seemed to raise my electric bill noticibly.
It's 8' X 12' and you can build it with stuph from the lumberyard.  I'll
send you the plans for it for $10.00 plus postage.  Like I said I've had it
for five years going day and night and no problems that I haven't been able
to handle.   You can make it any size you want to, just make it in
increments of 2 feet and it'll be just phyne.At 04:12 PM 11/16/97 -0600, you
wrote:
>Off the subject, but....
>I went to an open house of a new commercial greenhouse in Whitewater,
>Wisconsin (!), Saturday and it wowed me. Five acres under one glass
>roof, heated by a closed hot water system from "by-product" hot water of
>a nearby power generation plant (the only way to afford it here), plants
>watered by an ebb and flood floor system, moveable overhead hooks for
>baskets, moveable spray nozzles in some bays for cuttings, all
>controlled, of course, by computer. Poinsettias are the subject now; as
>soon as they are shipped, bedding plants will be seeded, and in the
>fall, chrysanthemums. Unfortunately, all for midwest Walmarts and garden
>centers, no retail sales. 
>The sea of red with islands of pink and white was impressive. Oh, to
>have a greenhouse - even a little one!
>
>Barb - cold in WI
>
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