DIY Greenhouse and other projects

Well hello there.  You thought I was gone didn't you?

Apologies for not posting in a while but now that I have several upcoming projects, thought I'd get back into documenting them.  Not to mention after not doing much on it last year, I am planning on upgrading the main project, the pirate ship in a few weeks from now.  I've got some neat ideas on how to finally complete this project but more on that in posts to come.  

So what have been up to?  Well, the wife wanted a greenhouse for this summer so late last fall we salvaged the frame from a temporary garage (10x20) and got to work.  I should have taken some pics of just the frame but here you go. 

I took the side braces and moved them up to the roof section to give the plastic that would eventually cover it more support.  I didn't know what kind of winter to expect but I sure as hell didn't want to do all this work and come spring have plastic all shredded so I built up some half walls.  All the wood used was hemlock, which I find gives me excellent rot resistance and there is a small family mill 5 minutes from the house that saws it and leaves it in rough form, meaning a full 2 inches thick.  

Now the pic below is once we had greenhouse sheathing draped over it.  The Mrs. was afraid of too much air getting in so opted to have the plastic right down to the ground.  I felt that with tongue and groove boards, there shouldn't be much air and that having plastic over the wood would keep too much moisture and be detrimental to the wood.  Look at the picture and try to guess who won that discussion.

So the pics so far were right before winter. Below you can see we've accentuated the setup with some garden boxes and some screen doors on each end of the greenhouse to let air and pollen carrying critters through.  Oh, you may also notice that my plan of leaving the wood uncovered by plastic has been revisited.

Honestly, this really turned out better than expected.  The pic below is from a few weeks ago but yesterday my wife said he tomato plants in there are the best looking ones she has ever been able to grow.  She added a few solar driveway lamps in there and at night it looks pretty cool.

Another pic below here shows behind, again a few boxes.

Now here are some pics of upcoming projects.  First up is an old fence we have been using as support for some grape vines.  As you can see this fence is dead.  I'm currently (one per night), digging holes for concrete pillars (in the ground) that will support a trellis (or pergola, not sure which is which).  Hoping to have this project done by end of next week.

Next up is going to be the pirate ship.  It has endured a few rough winters and still held up and any time there Matt has one or more friends over, this still becomes make believe central.  I'll be finishing up the rigging, replacing the cheap cargo net, finishing railings and a few other bells and whistles.  Need to get this finished before our yearly fireworks shindig in mid-August.

Next pic are big logs I got from a neighbor.  Have no idea what I'm going to do with them yet but I'm looking for ideas.

The bridge is still rock solid but severe flooding in the spring has eroded quite a bit of soil around the concrete piers so I need to fix this before winter.  I'm hoping the creek will dry up enough this summer that I can pour more concrete to shore up the piers.

Now before I get to the bulk of these projects, I need to sort out the workshop.  It is a DISASTER right now.

Following pic is of the other section which I have started to clean up.

So that's what I've been up to and what's coming up.  I've got a few other smaller projects that I want to try and get to as well but I don't want to put them down here quite yet.  If I write about them now, a certain someone will hold me to them. : )

I'll be back shortly, I promise.  And as always, thanks for dropping by.