Greenhouse History

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Bill Shepard on left, Larry Tolson on right.

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Larry Tolson

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Bill Shepard on left, Larry Tolson on right.

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Bill Shepard on right, Larry Tolson on left.

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Charles Dills on left, Larry Tolson on right.

Garden Work can be fun.
Tossing straw!

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Greenhouse skeleton from garden side.

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Construction Crew.
l. to r. Charles Dills, ? , Larry Tolson, Norman Mayer, Bill Shepard.
In front ?.

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Putting on the inflatable roof!
See my beautiful 1956 Chevy truck!

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Fan for inflatable roof!

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First propagation bench.

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A crew from Achievement House helped in the garden, building paths etc,

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More Achievment House help!

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And more Achievment House help!

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And more Achievment House cleanup in foreground!

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And here she is!

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Ignore construction debris.

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The water controls.

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The water controls and the timer.

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Norm Mayer in foreground, Bill Shepard in background.

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Larry Tolson working on the water system.

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Larry Tolson setting the timer.

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Taking a breather.
l. to r. Charles Dills, Norm Mayer and Larry Tolson.

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Taking a breather.
l. to r. Bill Shepard (left) and Norm Mayer admiring the eave trough.

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I got a crew from Clearwater Color Nursery to lay the ground cloth properly.
Charles Dills, sitting, oversees the project.

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Our new floor!
Now for some more benches!

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Our new floor!
Our new benches!

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The propagation crew, hard at work on their new benches.

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And here are the results!

And the shadehouse is almost complete. It is 20' x 30' and 10' high.

Shade house.
Norm Mayer, (on left) and Charles Dills, building the "roof".

Shade house.
The skeleton.

Shade house.
All the shadecloth is installed. Water has been installed. We're now ready to build benches. Unfortunately, they are built out of money which we don't have at the moment!

Recent Work at the Garden
2005.07

Growing Ground Gate

We have an outside growing area, the third stage of plant propagation.
Here is the gate I built to finish our attempt to "deer proof" it.
I haven't installed a latch yet.

New Rolling door
2005.0718

The shade house has experienced what we believe is deer damage.
So it seemed prudent to put on some doors.

So I built some doors and hung them using the hanging door type of rollers so they will be very easy to open, for people that is.

Door closeup

Here is a closeup of the rolling door.

Please contact Charles E. Dills 544-1731 or e-mail me at charlesdills@mac.com.

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