Green House Attachment

[Meerkat]

I've been thinking about a GH that is on the south side of house and attached to the bedroom window.
We could use the heat from the house to heat it at night and the heat from the GH could help heat the house in the day.
This way we could grow food all year if we wanted or had to. I'd also like to use glass cubes but that is probably not going to happen due to expense.
Also we have to make sure it is is under a certain amount of money to build or the masters will consider it another room and up the taxes. Plus the insurance may not like it. But I'm still working on the idea.
I have some potato that I could put in today if I had heated area. Plus start back up hydroponic
s along with containers.

 

[Meerkat]

I could replace bedroom window with a door but I'd need to raise it a couple feet for floor to be off teh ground..

Something like this except no outside doors, only enter and exit from inside house.

 

[JAC]

The kiddo here has really gotten in to her plants this year and has a number of them on the window sill and bedroom floor next to her South facing window. I have considered removing her window and building a small triangle shaped greenhouse outside her window something like this so she can have more room inside her window area and get the plants off the floor.

 

[JAC]

Have you seen this @Meerkat ?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GDVVZY4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[Meerkat]

The kiddo here has really gotten in to her plants this year and has a number of them on the window sill and bedroom floor next to her South facing window. I have considered removing her window and building a small triangle shaped greenhouse outside her window something like this so she can have more room inside her window area and get the plants off the floor.

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I think it is a good idea. Thar is like our window a few feet off the ground so would have to raise the floor. We have two large windows and one could be used for a door.

 

[Meerkat]

Have you seen this @Meerkat ?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GDVVZY4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Thanks JAC that is a good deal. And two of those would do the trick. One for each window but middle cut out so it is just one GH.
I know if I remember correctly, the county said anything over $600 is considered a room,so price is good too.

 

[Meerkat]

We had a lean to up against the house on the ground but it was hard to heat. So we used the big GH since we had to heat it anyway may as well go big, well wrong answer. First power bill knocks us off our feet! I bet Sparky had a big laugh off that one after he saw what I bought.

 

[Meerkat]

Here is the benefits ,

It is right at the house, no going outside turning fans off and on or openign and closing doors or plastic, or controlling the cold. Heat will be controlled from inside house.
Caring for the plants ,watering, feeding and cooling is all done from inside.
We are old and the less running around outside the better. especially when one or even both of us are down at same time. His back has him in bed or on walker and my knee or back has me down. Or whatever else nature has in store for us to throw a wrench into the work load.

 

[joel]

I have heard a lot about this kind of system.
The ones I know are not as old as this one, but they worked well.

 

[joel]

I found this.

 

[Meerkat]

I have heard a lot about this kind of system.
The ones I know are not as old as this one, but they worked well.

Joel it works good if you work it and it gets easier once you get use to it.

 

[Meerkat]

I found this.

This is amazing! Thanks Joel.

 

[Weedygarden]

Meerkat, I wonder what the winter temperature ranges are in your area?

 

[Meerkat]

Meerkat, I wonder what the winter temperature ranges are in your area?

Lows can get into the teens but not often maybe a couple times a year if that. And not every year. But lots of 20s and humid which makes it colder it seems.