A greenhouse without bothering: how to make a homemade design of the film, hoop and wood

How to grow and harvest a rich harvest on your site and make yourself a greenhouse for cucumbers with your own hands - you can read in this article, where photos of various options are also presented for clarity (as an example for beginners).

Greenhouse requirements for cucumbers

In order to properly organize your work in stages and make a greenhouse with your own hands from scrap materials, you first need to examine all the requirements that the future borage must meet:

1. The implementation of the main function - the accumulation of heat.
2. Mobility, ease of moving the mini-design around the site.
3. In hot weather, the greenhouse shelter must be opened to prevent overheating of plants, and, on the contrary, closed at night.
4. The design should be well ventilated, but not be in a draft.
5. The location should allow you to conveniently loosen and water the soil.
6. The site should be well lit and protected from the wind.

Where is the best place to put the structure

Choosing a place to put shelter for cucumbers is actually not so easy, but it is quite realistic.

The main thing is to take into account the factors of greenhouse location relative to the cardinal points and wind direction. The most important location criteria in this process are as follows:

1. Direction of light. Lighting should be more than good, the germination of plants will depend on it. A clear orientation towards the cardinal points is required. The construction should not be blocked by houses, trees and other structures.
2. In the selected area should be high quality soil.
3. Of great importance is the convenience of accommodation - the presence of the entrance, free entry, posting the necessary communications and ease of maintenance.
4. The slope of the site, the groundwater level and the ability of the soil to freeze.

Simple greenhouse do it yourself

For one and a half or even in one day, it is possible to build a greenhouse suitable for green and pimply vegetables, the main thing in this business is desire and diligence.

What is needed

Initially, let's see what materials we need for making borage with our own hands:

• hula hoop (hoop);
• boards;
• oilcloth film 1 or 2 pieces;
• drill;
• stapler

Instructions for making

It is quite simple to make a shelter, the process itself is divided into just a few small steps:

1. The prepared hula-hoop is sawn in half.
2. A small rectangular structure is made from 4 boards in a place chosen by all the rules.
3. Then, in 2 planks parallel to each other (those that are smaller), holes are drilled at the ends so that the hula hoop halves are easily inserted there.
4. After fixing the plastic wrap into the boards, the film is stretched over the whole structure, which can be easily attached with a conventional stapler around the entire circumference from two sides.

Even novice vegetable growers and gardeners can easily make simple greenhouses with their own hands, especially if you follow all the above rules, and you can also see this detailed video instruction for a good example and make borage the easiest and most convenient to use:

Other manufacturing options

Undoubtedly, the home-made borage recommended in this article can claim to be the best because of its ease of manufacture and convenient operation. By the way, among gardeners, he bears the name "Film Greenhouse".

But there are also other options for making cucumber greenhouses, they would also be worth paying attention to:

1. "Greenhouse butterfly". It consists of a box that somehow resembles a house with a gable roof, the doors of which can easily be opened. As in the case of the film, "greenhouse butterfly" is quite easy to assemble on their own.

First you need to choose the necessary material for the base and frame, it can be any wooden boards. It is better to place this construction on a base from a bar - this will prevent rotting in its lower part. Before installation itself, remove a small layer of earth and replace it with a 10 cm layer of fine gravel to create drainage.

Then, insert the acquired window glass into the frame and fix it well with overlays, and process the frame with a compound that prevents rotting of the wood used.

2. Recently, polycarbonate shelters are gaining popularity, which is a synthetic material and is used for numerous agricultural and horticultural needs. The advantage of this borage is the material's resistance to snow and hail, as well as its ability to cool slowly.

You can make it at home just like a greenhouse butterfly, but instead of glass you can use the polycarbonate material itself.

Features of construction for short-term or permanent cultivation

Features of the construction for short-term or permanent cultivation of cucumbers may be in the following details:

1. Homemade film house is suitable only for short periods, that is, for 1 season.

   But this is understandable, because a fragile polyethylene can easily break a strong wind, not to mention the frost, which will easily destroy the plants under such poor-quality shelter.

2. But the construction of polycarbonate is very reliable in its long-term use (more than 2 years) and is suitable for growing even in a particularly snowy winter period. The main thing is to choose the right polycarbonate: its optimal thickness should be at least 6 mm, since in the case of the 4-millimeter version the coating will easily beat the hail. In addition, in such a greenhouse you can safely organize the necessary heating, as in any greenhouse.

3. Read also about how to make a greenhouse with your own hands.
   The glass also has many advantages, both in the warm and cold season. In particular, it is the transparency and chemical inertness of the cucumber shelter, because film and polycarbonate materials at a high temperature can emit quite harmful substances, including foul-smelling, which, when accumulated, can also harm planted cucumbers.

   The glass house also has a drawback: it weighs much more than the other shelters, but, unlike the film house, it will not be demolished in strong windy weather.

   You should also pay attention to the fragility of the glass and high thermal conductivity, because of which the crop can ripen several days or weeks later than in other self-made installations.

Proceeding from the above, it should be noted that self-made buildings, whatever material they have, have their advantages and disadvantages, therefore each owner must create a shelter based on personal preferences - the main thing is to first decide on what period exactly future borage.

Today you have learned how to make a good greenhouse for cucumbers with your own hands, as well as a lot of interesting details regarding the characteristics of the placement of such structures and materials.

Therefore, armed with the necessary tools, you can easily realize the planned construction in life and get a high-quality harvest of tasty and ripe cucumbers.