Houston Greenhouse

[kathgilliam]

I have had a vegetable garden in an old dog run in the backyard a few years. We have three serious issues: Critters, torrential rain, hellish heat. What isn't eaten or drowned burns up. : )

I have chain link surrounding the dog run (which ironically is now used to keep the dogs OUT) and I used PVC pipe, u joints and cable locks to make an arched roof/sides. I'm kind of at a loss now what to use to cover it. If I use light filtering cloth, will enough sunlight get in? If I use plastic, will I faint when I enter it? If I vent it, won't it allow the varmints to get in?

I have to tell the original poster that I am in the same boat with him!

Kath