Easy Greenhouse DIY – From a Kit

This is the 10′ x 12′ greenhouse kit that we got from ‘Harbor Freight’. Started all the spinach, broccoli, and herbs inside last winter (2015) and planted out in March. Unfortunately, the Summer heat slammed in right after that…so we lost the spinach and the Chinese Cabbage and lettuce bolted.

We added water inside and out and a potting bench and sink at the back outside.


Summer 2017 After the greenhouse had sat through a Florida summer the panels had deteriorated so badly that when we got our annual hurricane storms, many of them crumbled and blew off. We replaced them (Winter 2016) with higher quality poly-carbonite panels. We’re headed into Summer 2017 now, so we will see if they withstand the weather any better.

This is an ok greenhouse kit for the money, if you want something that is easy and fast to put up. Perhaps you are beyond the point where you can build something from scratch (or want to!), like us. It’s a good alternative, if you wait until it goes on sale.

Happy Homesteading

T.
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Tea Garden Early Years

This is what we started with in the Tea Garden…lots of sand. We planted a few flowering bushes, ornamental banana, iris, etc. and built a firepit area with an ornamental wood grill. The house faces east so the are gets morning sun all year round. In the summer the afternoon sun is quite strong, tracking a bit lower in the winter. There are those days in between (Spring and Fall) that the weather is perfect for using this pleasant little outdoor space for tea sipping.

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Check out what else we’ve done with the Tea Garden Project in the other posts…

Happy Homesteading,
T.

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Bunnies Jun 2015

 

Jan 2017

A year and a half later we have still have the original male rabbit and Fluffy the good mom is still with us.   Two of the males were very aggressive, scratching and biting, and we had to separate them from the does.   Fluffy and one of the other does just had 5 kits each.  We’re selling the bunnies at 6 weeks.

New Bunnies Jan 2017

 

 


Jun 2015

We started last year (’15) with two females and a male, New Zealand and California cross. They are supposed to make wonderful moms. Fluffy did well right from the start. Puffy, not so much…She had three litters and didn’t care for them each time. We had to decommission her. Fluffy is doing fine with her latest litter.

It is so hot here in Florida this year, that the bunnies really suffer. We try to keep them cool with a fan and misting water. When Fluffy was about to have her kits this time, we put her in the Firebee shed. She that thought the AC was great! Then we moved her back out with the newbies and thought she wasn’t feeding them at first. That why you’ll see the dropper feed on the video. We even gave the kit some of Emma’s milk…that was an adventure, first time milking a goat!

Everything is working out fine for Fluffy now. She is feeding them. And Emma can concentrate on KatyToo and Half & Half!


Rabbits love the garden greens and veggies.  Not so much Kale… At first the greens need to be dried so as not to upset their systems, especially if they have been used to pellets.

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