[TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...

[Rob Fertner]

Don't take it as gospel, I'm pulling it from distant memory. Way back when I
grew up in Michigan, this guy my dad knew was building a green house ( not
as big as yours). He had put the long axis N-S so the plants got an even
amount of sunlight. His house faced west so the greenhouse was in the
backyard parallel to the house. I wish I could say this guy was sort of
authority on greenhouses.

Rob

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On 8/13/2012 10:11 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> Actually, Andy should THANK those charitable folks who siphoned off 
> the gas and thus saved his carburetor from getting plugged with 
> shellac!  That bus sat out in the AZ sun for - what?  - a decade (?) 
> before Andy drove it east.

No... about 3 years.  Plenty long enough.  The sun destroyed the heavy duty
tarp which destroyed the solid maple jeweler's bench I built in college.  I
still have the top but it is nuked.  I will build another. 
I can get rock maple here, jointed and planed to dimension for $2.25 bd-ft.

Speaking of buildings... I have a question for the learned members of this
forum.  I just came into a 20x50 greenhouse for next to nothing. 
It is a defunct commercial building, heated, plumbed, has power and all
that.  Is there any special orientation to which the building should be set
when I put it up?  Should the long axie go N-S?  E-W?  I am going to pour a
footing and a 4' apron all around, then 4 courses of block and the glass
framing atop that.

Any information would be very much appreciated.  I am very much looking
forward to putting this up.
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