Thu rural new-yorker 
293 
1913. 
A SMALL SASH-COVERED GREENHOUSE 
AND HOW MANAGED. 
To anyone used to working under 
glass, as I had been, when taken away 
from it, the temptation is irresistible to 
trap the rays of sunshine and have 
things growing again. So it happened 
that, though placed under new condi¬ 
tions, and on a farm temporarily, I 
bought six dozen new sash, with the 
necessary glass, putty and paint, and 
transplant tomatoes and peppers, etc., 
and we made a bench along this middle 
tier of sash to get the lowest plants 
nearer to the glass. Instead of remov¬ 
ing the cabbage plants we found it 
easier to remove the sash and close the 
opening with old carpets, boards, etc., 
temporarily, using the sash on a frame 
to force some additional cabbage plants 
transplanted to frames, for a few days, 
and when the cabbage plants were 
hardened and set out from the space in 
the greenhouse, we used the space for 
planting the melons in dirt bands, re- 
AN INEXPENSIVE GREENHOUSE. 
when completed resolved to make the 
most of these, without erecting a per¬ 
manent greenhouse or incurring any ex¬ 
pense worth while, aside from the sash, 
which I could take with me when I left. 
There was a warm protected corner 
open to the south that had been partly 
henyard, and covered with dilapidated 
fences and rubbish and an old corn- 
house. This space when cleared af¬ 
forded an ideal spot for a small struc¬ 
ture covered with 36 sash, for which 
the material for framework, supports, 
and a four-foot bench on the north 
side, was mostly picked out of rubbish 
and old lumber lying about, and when 
completed, instead of an unsightly 
corner it appeared as in the picture 
above. The lower row of sash was 
hinged with a strip of leather to each, 
and the rest of the sash fastened with 
thin wire nails. A board a foot wide, 
hinged against the building so it could 
be raised, afforded a ventilator, as 
shown in the picture. A small excava¬ 
tion under the bench on the north side 
afforded a place for the wood chunk 
stove that was used for heating, with 
ordinary stove pipe carried along under 
the bench for flue and then chimney at 
the further end of the house. This 
proved a very satisfactory heating ar¬ 
rangement, and disposed of knots and 
split-up stumps, otherwise an eyesore 
about the place; and when well filled 
up in the evening after having a good 
bed of coals and the stove closed, it 
easily kept warm all night without any 
attention till five o’clock in the morning. 
The first thing we started was lettuce 
and cabbage, in flats, over the stove, 
where they came up quickly, and were 
then removed and others put in their 
place. By the time the ground in the 
rest of the greenhouse was fully thawed 
and dry enough to work, we trans¬ 
planted the cabbage plants into plant 
boxes or flats, made of old store boxes, 
placing them under the lower tier of 
sash where it was coolest, and where 
they could be easily removed from the 
outside, to harden off. Next we trans¬ 
planted the lettuce in the ground space 
left, later transferring to frames out¬ 
side, where the other 36 sash were now 
put to use. 
Even before the lettuce plants were 
ready to remove, our tomato plants 
forced along on the warm space above 
the stove, as also the peppers and egg¬ 
plants, were crowding for room in flats 
on the bench and we had to make a 
temporary bench about 18 inches wide 
to hold plant boxes up near the glass, 
while the lettuce was still growing be¬ 
neath. When the lettuce plants were 
all removed, partly from necessity, as 
we could not find good ground, thawed 
and dry enough outside, we used the 
ground in this space to fill boxes to 
turning the sash to their places. The 
sash used on the lettuce frames was 
later removed to force the tomato plants 
for our own setting, and some cheap 
muslin used for covering the lettuce 
until it was marketed, and finally the 
eggplants shifted into square boxes, also 
in the space made vacant by the re- 
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