Greenhouse for $300

[HotAction]

President of my club built a greenhouse for $300. Here is a link to an article he wrote about it.
http://cnybonsai.googlepages.com/geodesicdomegreenhouse

-Dave

 

[shohin kid]

Thats real cool.

 

[meushi]

Excellent build! I'm currently looking into building a passive greenhouse myself.

 

[kytombonsai]

Dave, Pretty cool. I bet you could find a PVC that electricians use that would be UV resistant.

Tom

 

[HotAction]

I saw it in person before I found the article. He heats it in winter on the coldest nights with an old wood burning stove. He also has several large drums of water to act as a heat sink. It seems rather effective, as well as inexpensive. It gets cold in winter around here.
-Dave

 

[milehigh_7]

Found this on e-bay a while back. Uses chain link fence poles. The link below is the the 12' wide model there are several sizes.


Greenhouse Hoop Bending Tool Model DY-12


I don't know if it will be of help to any one or not.

 

[mapleman77]

I wonder if this particular greenhouse (geodesic dome) could be made into a propagation greenhouse? If you attached a misting system and could keep the inside a certain temp, I think that would be really cool and CHEAP!

 

[meushi]

It would probably work.

One of the BBC "eco" shows did an experiment with a geodesic dome last year for propagation and tropical hydroculture. They used solar-powered pumps to keep the water circulating on the hydroculture side and to power a basic misting system. You could probably keep the temperature rather constant just by having dark containers of water in the dome.

 

[apisto]

I was thinking about building one of plastic juice bottles like this http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk/bottle.shtml

though 1500 is a lot of juice bottles even for me