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Grams Weighs In On My Greenhouse

by Mike Lieberman on October 23, 2009 · 12 comments

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Never at a loss for words, I decided to ask my Grandmother about her thoughts on my small plastic greenhouse design. She’s been asking me for a while about what I should do and has been telling me to buy this and buy that.

I kept telling her that I didn’t want to buy anything and wanted to use as many existing items as I possibly could. Earlier in the week, I had set them up on my fire escape garden and was spending the day at her place getting them ready in the backyard garden.

So while she rested from going to her early morning exercise classes, I got to work. The first thing I had to do was to wrap up all of the phone books to get them under the containers and off of the cold ground.

Then I started to put the greenhouses together. Since the weather has suddenly warmed up again, 60s during the day and 50s at night, I just wanted to get them set up, but not put them on.

By the time I was done, she was well rested from her nap and had to get “camera ready” (a direct quote). So I broke down the design and explained to her how it should work. Her response was a, “It sounds possible. I don’t know, we’ll have to see. It’ll be interesting if nothing else.”

I was expecting a bit more out of her, but it was definitely reassuring that she didn’t totally shoot it down.

Pretty sure that I’ll finish them off this weekend. Will it work? We’ll have to wait and see.


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  • http://seedscatterer.blogspot.com/ Nell Jean

    Loved you video. Your grandmother is charming. I'm sure she's proud of you, too. My Grandson goes to school at Kings Point, NY.

    I hope it all works out. You'll learn a lot, regardless. I forgot to open my little greenhouse yesterday before we went to the city. When we got home, my husband said, “Do you know it's 125 degrees in the greenhouse?” Everything got a shower and most things seemed not to mind except for the angelwing begonia and some cuttings in water that can be easily replaced. It isn't something I want to repeat.

  • http://earthmother-intheraw.blogspot.com/ EarthMother – In The Raw

    Ah, Gram, the eternal optimist! Bless her for letting you take over her backyard patio for the summer. Hope she's scored some big harvest out of the deal.

    LOL, tell me, are the bowling ball planters hers or yours?

    xo!
    EM

  • Mike Lieberman

    Haha. Those bowling balls and milk containers are older than you times me squared.

  • Mike Lieberman

    Haha. I'll heed your advice. The weather is starting to drop again though.

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  • http://blog.wewantraw.com/ Damon

    Yo Mike! Yet another supremely original post with great information. I do have to tell you that I didn't realize until I was adding both of your links to my blog yesterday that you do both Raw Food Photos and Urbanorganicgardener….you da man! I didn't know you were raw AND a gardener, so many are not both that should consider it. I absolutely love both sites, keep up the great work.
    Now I'm off to post our photo [to Raw Food Photos of course!] of the Raw Spaghetti we made last night with the huge zucchini we found still lurking in the garden the day before. Then maybe work on my greenhouse in the back yard 'cuz I think the cold is here to stay…what are you planting for your winter staples?

  • Mike Lieberman

    Thanks Damon. I have a few other sites as well. Working on making them a bit more unified as well.

    Being that I eat mostly fresh produce is what got me started in gardening. I don't get the people that are “raw” yet order foods from all over the world. Grow your own damned it or at least shop locally.

    Thanks for all the support.

  • Mike Lieberman

    Thanks Damon. I have a few other sites as well. Working on making them a bit more unified as well.

    Being that I eat mostly fresh produce is what got me started in gardening. I don't get the people that are “raw” yet order foods from all over the world. Grow your own damned it or at least shop locally.

    Thanks for all the support.

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    Instead of scrapping it altogether, have you thought about adding a total of 4 sticks to the container so that it has a 4-post support? That should prevent it from collapsing under the weight of water. Well taping it at the bottom would provide even more support to help keep it in place.

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