FruitTreesUK
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Flower or garden beds, concrete boxes are included with many homes. In this case they are south facing with a front yard that slopes upward or a north facing slope. Tucked away they get plenty of sun and are well protected being in a small valley of sorts with trees or fences covering the sides around the house and wood chips providing ground cover. Many people do not (have time or knowledge to or think of) utilize these to their potential. The water faucet is right there and a simple timer would not even need irrigation line, the garden bed looks like a flood and drain family sized potato and tomato bed, corn rice peas marigolds beans herbs for example. The size is right to fill up the home's cellar for a season in my estimate or opinion.
My question is how should I design a greenhouse covering for this garden box or an enclosure for the front side of the house? A half loop (hoop) attached to the home which I mean to say is a ninety degree arc or half circle folded in half, with the tubes attaching to the house and continuing straight out and down into the ground? Half a hoop house, with the middle pressed up into the home and the home used as a support for the hoops. My second thought was maybe to cover the plants with more of a straight section of plastic, using wood or straight tubing. In this case I am curious to hear other peoples' thoughts on height whether to the rain gutter of the house or as small as possible, and to extend more or less level or to raise with the elevation of the ground since the road is higher in elevation than the house. Or instead, to build a hoop structure beginning at the flower box and extending outward, not connected to the house at all but separated away with an air space in between? I have 3/4" PVC, 1 3/8" galvanized fence tubing, 2x4"s, 1 1/2x1 1/2"s, an SDS drill and some kind of masonry screws. My concerns are what experts may have learned and like to pass on regarding water entry or temperature or humidity or sunlight exposure with different shapes flat curved facing the sun or one simple larger structure which uses the least amount of building material.
My question is how should I design a greenhouse covering for this garden box or an enclosure for the front side of the house? A half loop (hoop) attached to the home which I mean to say is a ninety degree arc or half circle folded in half, with the tubes attaching to the house and continuing straight out and down into the ground? Half a hoop house, with the middle pressed up into the home and the home used as a support for the hoops. My second thought was maybe to cover the plants with more of a straight section of plastic, using wood or straight tubing. In this case I am curious to hear other peoples' thoughts on height whether to the rain gutter of the house or as small as possible, and to extend more or less level or to raise with the elevation of the ground since the road is higher in elevation than the house. Or instead, to build a hoop structure beginning at the flower box and extending outward, not connected to the house at all but separated away with an air space in between? I have 3/4" PVC, 1 3/8" galvanized fence tubing, 2x4"s, 1 1/2x1 1/2"s, an SDS drill and some kind of masonry screws. My concerns are what experts may have learned and like to pass on regarding water entry or temperature or humidity or sunlight exposure with different shapes flat curved facing the sun or one simple larger structure which uses the least amount of building material.
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