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

[CGRAF]

Andy try this one:
   http://www.urbanaquaponics.com/showthread.php?40-Greenhouse-Orientation

Mike Graf

On 8/17/2012 7:58 AM, CGRAF wrote:
> I drove by a few since your post.
> Professional greenhouses here seem to favor North/South.
> The larger private ones seem to let the lot dimensions make the
> determination.
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> Mike Graf
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> On 8/16/2012 10:07 PM, Joshua McGregor wrote:
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>> Might be a good idea to go look at a few commercial greenhouses. Or if you have a county ag extension agent, or something of the like, go pick their brain. That's what they are there for.
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>>> From: rfertner at cox.net
>>> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>>> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:27:21 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...
>>>
>>> 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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>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...
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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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