Your greenhouse can be as elaborate or as simple as you want to build it.
Starting plants for your outdoor gardens means protecting the young plants from extreme rain and wind while providing enough light for them to grow. A greenhouse will provide all of these things for your plants until they are old enough and strong enough to withstand life outdoors. Once you have decided to grow plants in a greenhouse, you must choose a design. Your greenhouse can be as elaborate or as simple as you want to build it. A simple, temporary lean-to greenhouse will provide sunlight, warmth and protection while costing you very little money.
Instructions
1. Drive an angled wooden stake 12 inches into the ground, using a sledgehammer. Drive a second stake 5 feet from the first.
2. Lay another angled stake across the tops of the two uprights. Use the Phillips bit on your drill to drive a galvanized screw through the top board and into the end of each upright. Cut off the ends of the cross-board with a hacksaw.
3. Unroll the plastic sheeting. Lay one end of the sheeting on top of the cross-board. Lay a 1-inch by 2-inch board on top of the cross-board of your frame. Flush each side of the board with the horizontal board at the top of your frame. Use a hammer to drive a line of roofing nails to connect the two boards and hold the plastic in place.
4. Pull the plastic sheeting 10 feet from the frame. Lay one of the 1-inch by 2-inch boards under the plastic and another on top of it. Nail the two together with plastic sheeting sandwiched securely in between them. Trim the edges of the plastic with a razor knife.
5. Pull the loose end of the plastic as far from the mounted frame as possible. Drive tent stakes through the plastic where the boards holding the end of it are lying on the ground. Drive the stakes 12 inches apart, and be sure each of them is turned so that the angled section is lying across the boards.
