Greenhouse, Episode #2

With stout posts driven 36″+ into the ground I was ready to move forward and ordered the requisite 1/4″ hardware cloth to cover the entire floor space (to keep out all the little rodents that make Mrs. Barn’s gardening life one of frustration) and the pile of 2x8x10′ PT/SYP to build the knee walls and other components.  Now that was a shock, as the price was 3X more than the last time I ordered any meaningful quantity of construction lumber.  Those who are Inflation Deniers clearly do not comprehend either the definition of the term nor its manifestation.  But Don, are you saying you are smarter than the President and Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Federal Reserve and all those other “experts”?

Yup.  Why that is would be another blog post, or better yet, in some other universe of discourse.  Hint: it all boils down to the “Austrian” strain of economics.

I laid the hardware cloth and began screwing the 2x8s to the posts.  I bought enough material for a four-course wall but Mrs. Barn decided three was better, so I managed to build my reserve inventory of that supply even more.

With the three courses in place, I fired up the chainsaw and lopped off the posts at the top of the knee wall.  Carpentry by chainsaw is definitely a thing.  Those scraps will become bench legs in the greenhouse configuration.

Setting the edge with string I lined up all the sill plates on top of the walls and posts, readying everything for the addition of the cattle fence panels that will form the arched roof structure.

Stay tuned.