How Do You Build A Mini Greenhouse?
Building a mini greenhouse in your garden is an inexpensive, easy, low-tech way to start gardening earlier in spring and to extend the gardening season well into fall. This greenhouse uses a hoop house design and it can be covered with plastic, row cover material or shade cloth, making it a versatile and useful addition to the garden. The greenhouse takes under an hour to construct and uses materials that you can find in any hardware store. Here’s how to make it. Install the rebar stakes that will support the hoops of the greenhouse. Place a stake in each corner of the bed and two adjacent from each other in the middle of the bed. Hammer each stake 18 inches into the ground with the mallet or a heavy hammer. (These directions are for a bed that is 6 feet long by 3 feet wide. If your bed is longer, simply add in additional hoops. You can build this greenhouse over both in-ground and raised beds.) You can choose to use either PVC or flexible copper tubing. I chose to use copper because i
