NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/misc/rural/2547

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From: [e-mail] (David Adams)
Subject: Re: Inexpensive greenhouse
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Date: 18 Nov 92 12:24:34 CST

In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Jeff Brown) writes:
|  Check out a book called the "60 miniute gardener" ( I don't know the
|  auther or publ.). I t shows plans for raised beds that can be covered w/
|  hoops of pvc pipe and then plastic sheet.
|  Basicly you just put pieces of 2" (I think) pvc pipe every couple feet
|  on the sides of the raised bed and then slide smaller pvc pipe and flex          it |  to make a curved "rafter".

I bet you could cut the larger pieces of pvc at a sharp angle on one end so
that it is like a stake and can easily be driven into the ground with a
mallet.

How does one attach the plastic to the bent pvc?  What do you do for
doorways?

I have heard it said that a couple of rabbits in a hutch can generate
most of the heat needed for a small greenhouse.  That seems hard to
believe, but can anyone shed further light on the subject?

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--David C. Adams  Statistician  Cray Research Inc.  [e-mail]
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