{"id":100,"date":"2015-07-07T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ve6sar.northernsmiths.ca\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-07-07T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:24:34","slug":"cattle-panel-green-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ve6sar.northernsmiths.ca\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Cattle Panel Green House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up here in the Peace Country the growing season always seems to be about two weeks to short for the garden.<\/p>\n

The solution seems to be a green house. We looked around at the commercially available kits which are way over priced for what you get, and decided we could build our own.<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time researching how to build a green house out of CPVC pipe even got so far as making up a list of fittings and pipe required to cover our existing 8′ x 16′ raised vegetable garden, when my wife came across a post on Pintrest about using cattle panels to make a green house. \u00a0The panels are made from 1\/4″ galvanized wire that is spot welded at the factory to form 16′ x 4′ 4″ panels.<\/p>\n

The local farm store had the panels in stock so I bought 4 and got them delivered to the house.<\/p>\n

Now for the construction.<\/p>\n

Our existing garden is made from 4″ landscape ties so I started by screwing 2x2s down on the top of the long sides roughly flushed up with the out side of the landscape ties.<\/p>\n

To form the roof, I placed on end of the first panel against the inside of one of the 2x2s I just finished attaching then slowly raised the middle of the panel and walked the other end in until it could be wedged against the other 2×2, forming and arch. After flushing up the first panel with the end of the garden I secured the ends to the 2x2s with deck screws. The next panels I did the same process over lapping them by roughly 4″ so by the time the forth panel was in place it was flush with the other end of the garden.<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>
Detail of panel attachment to landscape ties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next step is to build your end frames, since was my first attempt it was a lot of playing around to get every thing square.<\/p>\n

\"Ready<\/a>
Ready to be covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I built on to the basic frame to provide some where to attach the end poly to with lath (thin strips of wood) When I attached poly I started from the bottom and worked up the extra I folded over the second cross bar in on the panels and tie wrapped it the panel.<\/p>\n

\"Ends<\/a>
Ends covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ends<\/a>
Ends covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To cover the top I reused some poly I had from the kids skating rink and cut it to 18′ x 16′. I had a couple pieces of chain link top rail laying around that were more then long enough to attach across the 16′ wide ends. To attach the poly I rolled the poly around the pipes once then used Tuck tape to secure it.<\/p>\n

\"Poly<\/a>
Poly laid out with pipe attached.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then with the help of a buddy I dragged one pipe and poly over the green house, then rolled up the poly on both pipes evenly until the poly was tight.<\/p>\n

\"All<\/a>
All covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I finished the doors with windows that open down for ventilation. So far it’s worked great.<\/p>\n

\"2015-06-26<\/a><\/p>\n

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Up here in the Peace Country the growing season always seems to be about two weeks to short for the garden. The solution seems to be a green house. We looked around at the commercially available kits which are way …<\/p>\n

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