Many people collect old windows and glass. They always intend to build a greenhouse....some day. Eventually, they end up on the side of the road...and there they are picked up by some other starry eyed survivalist with the good idea to build a greenhouse....someday. Poor little dejected glass windows. Always a GH Bridesmaid, never a GH Bride. Well, This cycle of window abuse ends here. Im building the Franken Greenhouse.....but I got distracted by a rapid drop in weather temperature. This years weather...don't get me started. Frost became a threat and we had some very slow yielding tomato plants this topsy tervy weather year. Soooo, I decided to use up some really old windows that I had no other use for. They were too pithy for any structural integrity. The glass too thin and I had collected far stronger glass anyhow. This was an easy problem solver. 4 frames,2 screws in each corner, an odd shaped window to put on top. Then slip over the endangered plants. Put back in the barn over the winter till they need to be used again. I didn't actually realise how Martha Stuart they'ed actually look in the garden until they were there. Like it was on purpose or something. Ta Da. Frost did end up ending our squashes. We will have half what we hoped.
So. Back to windows. Nature don't make 'em and they are darned handy. There is a lot of them to be recycled because a lot of people are replacing old ones for higher efficient ones....so if you have a place to put them....think of it as collecting it to....give to the next starry eyed survivalist with hope for a greenhouse 😆 ....or better yet, actually build the darned thing. 😉 You'll notice what I mentioned about F-ed up weather. Expect a lot more of it. Thus I am building a greenhouse....and one with a hail proof steel roof. Now, if only I could recycle some storm shutters.......
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
Gotta admit , that is creative!
And I like the fence too! Someone had a creative itch that they just had to scratch.
Thanks. A few of us have been experimenting with traditional woven willow fences. This was to keep the chickens out during planting.
Speaking of messed up weather. We got hit with an unexpected tropical storm last night. It destroyed a few things. One of my projects is a right off. It has a waterfall in it at the moment. Heads up on the window boxes. Figure out a way for the top to stay on in hurricane force winds that can still open so your plants don't cook in sunshine.
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
Now, if only I could recycle some storm shutters.......
If you have them, you can used them to make or shore up raised beds, stack them on sides and attach to fences where bunnies are helping themselves but you don't need solid work the whole way up, use them places you need to bury something a foot or so to discourage diggers, hinge shorter ones to make a stack-away A-frame to support poles for garden "hoops", or paint them dark colors to arrange beside plants and hold down paper or cloth or plastic weed exclusions (and then flip them so the birds can eat the slugs they condense for you).
You can also slice them and dice them and turn them into chair backs and seats, or if they're sturdy a bench swing. Or use them to cover a mini gazebo, depending on their construction and whether or not they're the waterproof type.
In the Deep South, you also sometimes see them use to extend the sides of a pickup bed a little higher or create a pickup bed with sides out of the plywood flatbed somebody rigged together.
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P.S. Put them back on their windows to protect those when they go flying off in the winds! 😉