Comments on: A Do-It-Yourself Geo-Dome Greenhouse

By: The Big Something» DIY Geo-Dome Greenhouse, Year 2

The Big Something» DIY Geo-Dome Greenhouse, Year 2 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:01:36 +0000

[...] summer, we took you on a tour of a Buckminster Fuller-style geo-dome greenhouse made on the cheap by John Sondericker in his back yar…. We went back this summer to see how it went last summer and what modifications had to be made and [...]

By: Marina Eckler

Marina Eckler — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:11:13 +0000

I think there’s a kit version of this greenhouse available online?

By: Julie Evans

Julie Evans — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:10:28 +0000

I’m really interesting in trying this out, but I don’t have a sheet-metal shop to punch out the connectors for me. Any ideas where I could get them? Or other cheap, easily attainable solutions?

By: John Sondericker

John Sondericker — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:18:51 +0000

When it is that crisp and fresh it isn’t gross, it is beautiful.

By: Eric Whitney

Eric Whitney — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:03:17 +0000

Dude, don’t make me listen to you chew food on the radio. Gross….

By: Joyce Cheney

Joyce Cheney — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:36:41 +0000

Here’s a much easier way to make a “quonset hut” greenhouse:
Buy the longest lathing strips they sell at Home Depot/Lowes (lathing strips are wooden strips about 1/4″ x 1. 1.4″ inches and up to 16 ft, and are/were the skeletons holding up interior plaster walls). Make a straight line of sticks about 2 ft apart, Jamming one end of each stick into the ground. Arch each stick and jam the other end into the ground, making an arched “tunnel of strips. But sheet plastic big enough to cover the tunnel top. Think about wind direction when you orient your tunnel. If you find it’s necessary, cut some wind holes in the plastic. If you want your hut warmer, put moveable plastic flaps over the ends. If you anticipate flying bugs being a problem, buy netting at a fabric store and put moveable netting flaps over the ends. Experiment with how hot it gets it inside. If you want all of the plastic tunnel roof on all the time, staple all of the plastic to the strips (put a scrap of cloth on the outside of the plastic at each staple, to keep the plastic from ripping). If you want to fold all or part of the plastic roof back during the day, figure out a way to do that: lash it down with rope/baling twine etc that you can lash/unlash.or experiment with clothespins (they still sell wooden ones at KMart). I slept in one of these for an entire winter, and it routinely got hot inside (our plastic roof was not moveable).