Some inexperienced gardeners select the space for the greenhouse according to the residual principle or are guided at the same time by more reasons of landscaping, than practicality. But if you want to receive the maximum return from this construction taking the place on your site it is necessary to consider not only requirements of plants, but also design features of the greenhouse at marking.
How to choose the optimum place for the greenhouse
Look after on the site the site with the most plain horizontal surface located so that the next high fences were from it from the South and the West. It will provide plants which you will grow up in the greenhouse, the maximum quantity of natural daylight and sunshine. What will be that and another more, you will provide big fertility with that to that allotment which allocate under the greenhouse.
When you plan beds in ready construction, orient them longwise along those walls which are located from north to south. It will provide plants with uniformly distributed light energy, allowing them to receive the morning and evening portions of sunshine, most useful to photosynthesis.
Marking of the space for the greenhouse
Level the chosen site irrespective of whether the greenhouse will be established on concrete bed or directly on the earth. If directly on the earth, at marking try to stamp not really the soil, you bypass the site allocated under the greenhouse on perimeter better. It is possible to level surface across, using some permanent point – part of capital construction or the extreme line of its basis.
The design built strictly down on the leveled basis will allow to distribute evenly all loads of framework and to exclude breakage or deformation of its parts.
Having chosen the main reference point, hammer two pegs and bind between them rope which will be located along one of walls of future greenhouse. For marking it is better to use spirit level. Length of other parties of rectangle – greenhouse projections to allotment - can be measured by means of normal tape measure to expose right angles, use the Tee construction square.
You make glazing of the greenhouse in dry windless weather that wind gusts did not prevent to establish glasses, and they were not slippery from moisture.
Carefully fix among themselves all parts of design. Consider that windage at this construction rather big what at strong gusty winds can lead to destruction of the greenhouse and death of harvest. When you have decided to fill in the bearing bolts for durability with cement, surely observe technology and wait when the cement slurry completely dries before starting further assembly of design. That cement "has risen", 48 hours can be required.