Greenhouse finally comes down

This past winter was the second one that I've built a temporary greenhouse in my garden from PVC pipes and plastic sheeting (and a few other parts). Last year I took it down on May 24th, which I thought was pretty late.

That was nothing compared to this year though, as I've been putting this job off again and again. I finally took it down last weekend.

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I'm really hoping this is the last year for this ugly DIY structure, as I plan to put a nice big garden shed here sometime this year, probably in late summer. (If I keep writing about it, it will have to happen, right?)

Although I mainly pack it with bamboos, right now it's housing a great crop of weeds:

Yes, it's ugly inside, but it's just as horrible outside, as the roof holds rainwater, leaves, and dead cicadas:

The plastic sheeting has started to deteriorate from UV exposure, and it rips very easily:

So I started  by ripping and pulling off all of the plastic, which won't be reused:

The garbage pail filled with water used as a heat sink during the winter is just a soupy, nasty mess:

This barrel of fun is making it smell back here. It smells like... well, it smells a lot like the zoo on a hot day.

There are no mosquito larvae in there, as I thankfully used mosquito dunks.

Emptying out the water involved buckets and dumping the water on plants that could use it (and were farthest from the house), and dismantling went pretty quickly after that.

There were some hose clamps and metal poles to remove, but those took just a few minutes, and I soon had the PVC frame reduced to a pile of pipes:

A pile of pipes that I guess I'll have to store in my nice, clean garage (garden shed, where are you?). If I leave them out here they'll just get filled with ant nests.

So the greenhouse is gone, and I've moved several of my potted bamboos into the space instead. I've got several more to move as well, but it's nice to have a little bit of this area reclaimed for use.

I've really got to start thinking about designing that shed. Although I made the greenhouse about the size I think the shed will be, and put it in the right general area, there are still a lot of details left to think about. I better get moving on this project if I want it to happen this year.

I do not want to have to be working with PVC and plastic sheeting again this fall.

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