Making a passive solar GREENHOUSE | from BEGINNING to END | extra footage

In 2021 we made a beautiful passive solar greenhouse in our steep hillside garden in Mid Wales in the UK.

Our first greenhouse video showed the planning, design, build and first year of growing in the greenhouse along with a month by month look at the produce we harvested from the new greenhouse in 2022.

This new video has much more detailed footage of the actual build of the passive solar greenhouse. We worked closely with a local builder to design and build the greenhouse on the site of our former polytunnel.

Watch our first passive solar greenhouse video:    • We built a passive solar GREENHOUSE |...  

Watch our greenhouse irrigation video:    • IRRIGATION set up in our passive sola...  

Watch our Year 2 greenhouse update video:    • Passive solar GREENHOUSE update | YEAR 2  

0.00 Intro
0.06 Digging the foundations
0.55 Making a temporary track to the site
2.11 Pouring the foundations
2.54 Building the walls
4.46 Making the path
6.13 Installing the windows
6.28 Building the roof
7.18 Building up the soil level behind the greenhouse
7.21 Staining the wood
7.27 Glazing the roof and windows
8.16 Doors in
8.40 Timber cladding
8.42 Guttering installed
8.46 Dimensions of the greenhouse
8.49 Workbench added
8.55 Preparing the beds
9.00 Irrigation installed
9.20 Dry stone wall (front) to retain the bank
9.29 Dry stone wall (back) to hide the damp proof membrane
9.36 Finished greenhouse

Tune

A Squash and a Squeeze - written by Chava Richman.
Performed by Chava and friends at a traditional music session at Welsh Mountain Cider in February 2023.