Sui and I had talked about getting a greenhouse for years, as her primary hobby is gardening. We’ve got collections of plants under solar lights and crammed by windows inside the house, and every year we drag out dozens of plants in the spring and back in for the fall, but had nothing outdoors to extend the growing season. Finally, Sui found an inexpensive greenhouse on-line and decided it was time.

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It is fall, so there is little inside except for plants that normally sit outside in a tent style greenhouse for the winter. The floor isn’t done in this picture, and it needs shelves installed. We put in crushed stones since this was taken. I’ve also added insulation along the south wall and roof to keep in some heat during the night.

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One of the fun on-going projects has been creating a small computer board to monitor the temperature and humidity, and report them back to the house via Wifi. The initial version has been running pretty well for over a week now but still needs to have some features added and bugs fixed. Power for it comes from the solar panel on the shed, which charges a battery and delivers 12+ volts to the greenhouse.