Finished the greenhouse project...
More or less…everything to do after today are little tweaks thought of during the build.
This is not a product endorsement just observations Ms.MiHale and I had about the Quictent greenhouse that’s getting quite popular in some gardening circles. It’s only one of many similar poly-tunnel greenhouses meant for year-round use.
The reason for a greenhouse is kinda two-fold…increase the growing season by a couple/three months and as a wind break. The winds have been increasing in amount of days and velocity. Talking to people who enjoy the outdoors most have commented on the increase in wind the last 2-3 years. Last summer we were battered, the winds made confetti out of the snow peas and bush beans, lettuce was almost a no-go. But enough of the whining.
This photo is here only to show the extra material at the bottom of the GH for stability you can pile on bricks, rocks or simply bury the excess, that is what we chose to do.
Buried. This is the east side of the GH, winds primarily come from the westerly direction so Ms.MiHale is going to try some peas next to the structure as well as inside. Where the 4x4’s are laying next to the straw is where the onions are going in and the potatoes are a little more easterly.
Complete with doors on. This is a 20x10x6 GH. we originally planned a 15x7x6 but with that size we had to leave out the plans for the hot tub. 😂
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Inside…we’re setting up for our first project in the GH, rehydrating a block of coco coir, the main ingredient of our soil recipe for filling the grow bags. Yesterday was not a bad day weather wise, not particularly sunny overcast at about 55 degrees. The temperature in the GH. rose quickly to 80 and maintained that temp even with the door propped open a little. The GH has a back door also which we are choosing not to use. Today we are going to try different layouts inside to see what we can fit the best. Already the tomatoes need to go out.
Will keep updating.
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The smell alone will be worth it.
and good job with it! 
I know over the years, I have read many lamentations from those who constructed one and later wished they had "gone bigger" because they see a benefit and then jam it up. 
Then they wish they had run electric out to it (for heaters and some kind of ventilation like an exhaust fan that turns on depending on the temp inside, etc).
I know the feeling about those days with winds (and all you need is one or two) that absolutely dehydrate and shred those veggies with fragile leaves.
I saw your link to your other thread and feel for you up there in the hinterlands. 
"above the 'thumb'" of the mitten, so... 
Your 44 degrees latitude is "hinterlands" compared to my 40 degrees latitude.
You do have that big lake to moderate temps there though. I have seen some ideas where people would dig out some couple foot deep trenches and then put pots in them with some straw during those marginal "transition" temp times as the ground tends to keep a more constant, and often milder temp than air temp when it's frosty (similar practice to "heeling in" a plant). Then boards (and/or shelf units) could be placed over the trenches to cover them when doing regular summer growing. People who grow potted figs will do that too (put them in trenches) if they don't have a good winter storage location that doesn't go below about 25F - 30F, where 15F can kill the fig tissue if sustained.
Read about that a long time ago. The composting process does generate some heat and that stabilizes the temp at the root zone. Some even actually do vermicomposting in trenches like that - https://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/5-great-reasons-to-use-vermicomposting-trenches-pits/
And thanks for the link to that channel.
I container garden with shrubs and perennials and I know my "rule of thumb" is to select plants that are rated for at least 1, or better, 2 or more Zones colder than my own since the pots are sitting above ground and stay out year round. That would be plants from your USDA Zone (I am in 7a).
"Millennial Gardener".
First thing I looked for was his video for growing sweet potatoes from slips. I got some grow bags with front flaps this year and was thinking of trying it. Have seen it done a billion times but never got chance myself.
Ms. MiH is trying sweets but I think we got started too late. We’d go right into the ground along side the other potatos. I support her but she makes me work 
Rain all day today back at it tomorrow. 🤞
Lotsa YouTube research on holding theses things down, it’s all an experiment, kinda. There are 24 trampoline stakes holding the frame to the ground. Not yet added is the tie downs that will go across the house which will be a diagonal run from front to back and then back again. The extra 4 inch’s of material that they purposely put on the bottom edge is buried into the ground that’s all to hold the cover down.
One person on YouTube living in Texas on a windswept landscape greenhouse held down as such survived 65 mph winds and she didn’t bury the extra material just ground stapled down. Wind getting underneath and lifting the house up is the main concern, block that your are good to go.
Hopefully not like Dorothy.
For your information…I have absolutely no idea of the quality or practicality of either of these ran across them searching for the one I bought. I remembered them. 🤔.
Small houses that go up against the home. This link is to an adaption of a poly tunnel inexpensive.
https://www.amazon.com/Yardgrow-Greenhouse-Portable-Waterproof-Gardening/dp/B08QYNPCH6/ref=asc_df_B08QYNPCH6/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=563646983247&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15909906267734024642&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9017160&hvtargid=pla-1600641736057&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dE0zEx1t9V5_fcDDi2dEOKSipAH8-3okZpht-dVgXeeGSxH5JZa-1xoCq9UQAvD_BwE&th=1
This is a poly-carbonate panel house. Moderately priced.
https://www.amazon.com/Outsunny-Aluminum-Polycarbonate-Greenhouse-Vegetables/dp/B08Q783R11/ref=psdc_11055931_t1_B08QYNPCH6?th=1
