The Vegetable House

Fletcher was so excited last weekend to be a "workin' man" with his dad and uncle. "We're building a house for vegetables Momma!" he told me. "And it's going to be green!" Eh, close enough. So here is the greenhouse thus far....




We wanted to use all reclaimed materials, but it's not quite working out. Most of the glass is from our neighbor. He had planned to build a solarium onto his home, but never did and is now moving. The glass doors are from our house - we recently removed our security doors and two sets of sliding glass doors and installed French doors instead. Much of the wood was left over from previous projects, left by the previous owners, or was already in place (the back wall and roof of the shelter used to be a wood shed).

We ended up purchasing some plywood as well as the plastic roofing, which we couldn't find used or at the building surplus store.

It was a glorious, sunny day. We all ended up with our first burns of the season, yet were happy about it. Unfortunately we ran into this a few days later...



So it might be a little while before the greenhouse is complete, trimmed out and painted. Such is life. At least during the spring in Colorado.