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Nichole

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Color me excited!!

We went to the NW Flower and Garden show here in Seattle. I go every year and manage to buy a thing or three every time we go. This year it was a big purchase - a greenhouse! WOOHOO!!

20% off and free shipping! Local company. Got the house, the shelving, a heater, and a greenhouse temp regulator. 

It's a good thing my husband loves me. He did like the 20% off. I was waiting for this show to make a purchase cause I know there are deals to be had.

The picture is bigger than the one I got. I wish I could get a bigger one we don't have the space. The one pictured is 8 x 8 feet, I purchased a 6 x 4. So cut the pictured one in half and bring in the width a smidge and that's what I'll have. 
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Congratulations!  Put some lights in there and you can imitate z10!
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Wow!! That is nice. I've been checking out greenhouses, too, but first I'd have to get red of the big red barn. Congratulations on the green house. It's nice to have hubby who loves you.
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I have some T5 grow lights in my house growing fig cuttings right now and that'll all get moved out into the greenhouse in a month when it arrives.
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When you get it all set up, post pics. Your yard is my inspiration.
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Oh I will. Lots of pics. We will soon have a garden shed too. These two structures will help tremendously with the organization of garden *stuff* scattered throughout my house, basement, and yard. I can't stand disorganization. Makes my eye twitch. 
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Wow!  That is beautiful Nichole!  Best I'm going to get is that el cheapo from Big Lots and a glass door that will be kicked to the curb from our remodel and the old kitchen sink and lower cabinets for a potting shelf!!  Still trying to decide where all that will go.  Recyling what we are tossing for sure!  A complete kitchen remodel is giving us lots of cabinets to use for a few projects. 

Always a treat to see your garden and will be fun to see how this greenhouse works out for you!

Congratulations!

Suzi
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woo hoo- congrats! I am in the process of getting one too. I love the picture
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Congrats Nichole.
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That's so cool !
I hope i can aford a green house in a cpl years .
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Thats a nice looking greenhouse Nichole...best of luck...can't wait to see the pics after set up !!
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Sweeeet!
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Congrats!  Looking forward to seeing it filled up!
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Nice.  Been considering one myself.  May I ask what that set you back all things considered?
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Congrats! They are lots of fun.
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oh wow.. that's a nice one. that will keep some of the more difficult ones happy :)
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Thanks all. I am hoping to use the greenhouse as a jumpstart to my season with my fruit bearing trees.  From what I've been reading, the fruit doesn't taste as good when it's ripened in a greenhouse so my hope is to give them a head start then put them outside once it is warm. It'll make a convenient location for overwintering.

I won't get it till the end of March which is a bummer cause I'd like to start now but our warm days don't really hit till May so it's still better than mother nature.
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Very nice greenhouse. I've always wanted one, but we are on a ridge, and sometimes it's just toooo windy.....
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i was thinking more of good tasting open eye ones in there to stop them from soaking up water x) we get plent of sun.. but depends on the year, we got ton of rain too.
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"don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." - sir winston churchill
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher

***** all my figs have FMV/FMD, in case you're wondering. *****
***** and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...*****
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Congrats Nichole
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Thanks Slavi! I'm sure yours is much better. It was made with love and hard work. I can't wait to see it.
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Weekends I am home.Breba in greenhouse is 1 inch
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How exciting!!! So happy for you :)

Soon we will meet up. I'll give away extra cuttings and see your greenhouse!
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