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I worked on a small greenhouse space today... more like a small extension to the kitchen with a transparent roof. Not quite done yet, but I'll probably finish it later this week.
I plan to use it as a plant nursery next spring and it should also work well to dry cloth in the winter.
I posted this months ago in the zerowaste community, but I'm pleased with this saddle stand I built for someone on my local Everything is Free page:
I built the top, and stained it to match the base which came from an old table my neighbor's were throwing away (they'd even taken all the hardware and hinges off it!)
My current restoration project is on hold while I'm working on a raised bed with my neighbor. Were doing a kind of multi tier thing with concrete blocks, and I only realized after we bought the blocks that it was really hard to get compatible 45° pieces so I built a form out of my worst scrap particleboard and bought a bag of quickcrete:
While I dont use it because I am not really confident in my skate skills and this definitely attracts attention, I am really proud of the result. The color can be changed to all the modes a typical cheap LED strip can change including cycling rainbow colors.
i've posted about this before, but here's our current progress on deep lasagna mulching our front yard. we just had an apple tree put in, and i have seeded the grass clipping-covered area of this part of our yard with cover crops. laughing wife for scale.
ooh what is deep lasagna mulchin? sounds tastey haha
lol, absolutely! it's a combination of this method (deep mulching, the Ruth Stoat method) and this method (lasagna mulching or lasagna composting).
what we're doing is laying down a double layer of cardboard, topping it with 3+ inches of wood chips, adding nitrogen in the form of grass clippings and, later in the year, leaves; and adding some manure, then seeding that mix with cover crops.
on the other side of our yard, we're going to do a more traditional lasagna method because we're running low on wood chips. this will be cardboard, an inch of woodchips, manure, and nitrogen. this will also be seeded.
in the spring, when our cover crops have bloomed, we'll chop and drop them where they are, adding more organic material to the soil we're building. finally, in that mixture, we'll plant the native wildflowers and food crops we're interested in growing and harvesting.
So cool!
Nice question to ask. As usual too many projects to cover in this short time 😁.
Closing the lower part of the serre for the winter upcoming. Creating a hatch out of too small hinges but these were available. Also made a rack under there to place the double winter windows which are exchanged in the winter for muskito windows from the summer. Working with wood is very fun.
I am also working on making a small duct to displace heat generated by stove on the first floor to the groundfloor. Have some difficulties finding a right thermostat that turns on over a certain temperature. Unfortunately photo upload is not working for me ATM otherwise I would have shared.
Photos need to be smaller than 3mb to work.
I didnt know that - Thanks!
what is a serre?
Some part of a greenhouse maybe? I have the same question