Cedar Greenhouse with Potting Bench

Stunning greenhouse. I’ll be showing DH this post as I would like one like this someday.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

This is a dream greenhouse. Beautiful and highly functional. Did you buy plans or design it yourself?

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

Hi Robin: I saw a design for this from a greenhouse supplier in British Columbia that sells cedar greenhouses. We used that as a basis and then did our own design. Thank-you both for your compliments!!!

-- Jamie, Sedalia, Colorado

spoiled!!!!
this is what I would call an “ultimate greenhouse and garden”. SWEEEEEET
Fantastic job

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

An excellent looking greenhouse, Jamie Well done.

I’d love to have one like it.

-- jroot

Beautiful! And definitely just what you need for your situation. Anyone would love to work and play in. :-)

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

they are like candy to a fat kid, a gardeners tootsie roll and yours is like ice cream on a hot summer day, with sprinkles of cookie crumbs, shavings of chocolate, dicing mint…..........ahhh

Nice looking garderers eye candy

-- Central northish Ontario

Jamie, what more can one do for one’s dear wife? You have built a fantastic green house showing your talents in wood working. Hope you will now get fresh vegetables all the year round. Congratulations .
Sharad

-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

Now that’s a greenhouse.Nice job.Anyone would love to that one.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

LOVE it!!

-- Gardening is Great Therapy!!.....Georgian Bay area....zone 5b

That is a beautiful greenhouse.

Do you heat it?

-- Central northish Ontario

Hi Green thumb:

We heat it at night in November and part of Dec. to get the most out of our vegetable crop but then it sits empty till ard. April 1st. Because it’s not unusual to have frost all the way thru till May.30th we keep a small space heater with the thermostat set at 40°F in there during the Spring and Fall. We get a lot of radiant heat during the day year round as we’re at 7100’ and the sun gets pretty intense so we could keep it warm all Winter but we have an active travel schedule during those months so elect to “suffer” through store bought produce in the Winter!

-- Jamie, Sedalia, Colorado

I just built a small greenhouse andl ike you, it isnt unusaul to have frost to the end of May, again in September.

I travel a lot in the winter too, blowing snow, up and down the driveway, up and down the driveway, up and down the driveway. At times that driveway,laneway, might as well be as long as the Alaska Highway.

I have to ask one more question. Why did you put the raised garden around the perimeter, and not down the middle?

-- Central northish Ontario

Greenthumb:

I know your weather predicament well as I was born and raised in Winnipeg and spent 10 years traveling a sales territory from Wpg. to Thunder Bay via Kenora, Dryden, Pickle Lake, Atikokan and Fort Frances. We put the raised garden beds around the perimeter of the green house in a horseshoe shaped design leaving the center aisle open for access. We found that 36” was a maximum reach from the aisle to the back of the raised beds and even with that my wife needs a small step stool to reach into the far corners. The raised beds are 30” high with a 2X6” ledge and are made of treated lumber lined with plywood and covered all around with a thick, rubber sheeting that they used for roofing to prevent the dirt and moisture getting to the plywood and rotting the wood. So far it’s worked well but I dread the day when we need more planting space!!!

-- Jamie, Sedalia, Colorado

I’ve been to Winterpig many times, same with Tunder bay, and pickle lake (god forbid).

Thanks for posting this, it really is a beautiful greenhouse.

-- Central northish Ontario