Repairing the pyramid greenhouse.
This is an ongoing project, the page will be updated whenever there is any progress to report.
September 24th, 2024.
I just came back to my home in Canada after two years in Mexico and found my yard, garden, raised planters and greenhouse completely ruined. Specially the greenhouse. The house was rented out for the two years I was not home and the tenants didn’t take care of anything outside the house.
I built the greenhouse as a test a few years back, and it gave me amazing results with everything I planted inside it. It was built with a pyramid shaped roof, a scaled down Keops pyramid, and perfectly oriented so its four sides face the four cardinal points. Just the way Les Brown describes in his book The Pyramid.
These are some pictures I took on May 30th, 2021, and you can see how much my plants had grown so early in the season. By summer my tomato plants were more than 9 feet tall with very thick strong trunks (they still needed support though). I took a lot of pictures but they were in a phone that died on me, so I lost them. I will try to document everything better next time after the greenhouse is fixed. That is one of the reasons for having this website.
And this picture below shows the deplorable current state of the greenhouse as of today September 24th, 2024. The wood frame is rotten, the plastic film is broken, the door is stuck open, the planters inside are also rotten and broken and it is a jungle of giant weeds. Just two years of being unattended. Makes me think of how cities look in postapocalyptic movies.
I’m obviously going to have to tear down most of it and rebuild almost from zero. When I first built it, it was a test to see if the pyramid configuration worked. It did work, and even now you can see that the weeds growing inside the greenhouse are a lot taller than the same kind of weeds growing outside.
This time I will make a more permanent building, with actual greenhouse polycarbonate panels instead of plastic film. I will also make proper raised self watering planters for it.