You Can Build Your Own Add-On Greenhouse

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on January 1, 1978
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Learn how to design and build your own add-on greenhouse.
Learn how to design and build your own add-on greenhouse.
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The completed greenhouse will look similar to this.
The completed greenhouse will look similar to this.

It’s a snap to design and build your own add-on greenhouse from low-cost new and salvaged materials.

You Can Build Your Own Add-On Greenhouse

For decades, the height of gardening and “food self-sufficiency” luxury has been the private greenhouse. Unfortunately — or, perhaps, foolishly — too many of us have traditionally regarded a family greenly greenhouse as just that . . . a luxury that “maybe” we’ll be able to afford “someday”.

Internationally recognized greenhouse gardening authority Jack Kramer doesn’t agree with that line of thought at all. “Far more people than realize it can have a greenhouse right now,” says Jack. “And that includes you. Prefabbed units that attach to an existing residence are becoming more reasonably priced and more popular every day. And if a ready-made kit is too expensive or too sterile for you . . . well, it’s a snap to design and build your own attractive conservatory from low-cost new and salvaged materials!”

Some of us (far more than have thought about it) can afford to buy and erect a prefabricated greenhouse, and some of us can’t. But even if you include yourself in the latter group, that’s still no reason to do without your very own plant conservatory.

Homemade greenhouses — just like homemade food-can be even better than the “professionally” designed kind. Furthermore, when you sketch up and build your own, you can make absolutely certain that it’ll be both the exact size and the exact shape you want. Best of all, you can calculate the layout and construction of your personal plant palace so that the finished structure will be both [1] distinctive and [2] a building that works with — rather than against — nature.

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