Greenhouse floor

[CodyW]

My husband is building me a greenhouse and we are not sure if we should put a concrete floor in or just go with gravel. Would appreciate your thoughts.

[lily51]

My greenhouse is 16 x 28'. We put in a concrete walk down the center of the length from door to door, then gravel for the rest. It has worked great.

[Bobberman]

I like the pea gravel floor. Also you can always make a bed right on the ground like a garden in the greenhouse which will hold moisture longer than a table bed!! I would try the gravel firt then decide if you like it! I am in the carpet business so I just covered the ground with old carpet rolled out with the back up! It worked great!
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The other advantage of ground is you can dig a area 2 feet deep and put your water drums down lower if you need the extra height for crops!

[soil]

we have brick that was layed down without mortar. under it is sand. we have herbs growing in some of the cracks that are out of the way. and scented herbs in the middle so when you walk on it, the GH smells good.

[Dillbert]

there are many options, but in two words: "not concrete"
in three words: "anything but concrete"

I used crushed stone (2B with fines as I recall) - wets well, helps with winter humidity - easy to rake re-flat as needed.

wooden path mats is another option - but concrete is just too permanent.

[Bobberman]

Bricks will also hold some heat in the winter for a few hours after the sun goes down!

[DoubleDogFarm]

I'm using 7/8" crushed drain rock.

Pea gravel is to hard to walk on, its like swimming.

Eric

[Bobberman]

Pea gravel is hard to walk on if its like 6 inches deep. I only put a surface layer like a inch deep right over the ground!

[bogydave]

I had pea gravel.
I covered it using dark gray paver bricks. They absorb some heat during the day & help heat some at night. Here it freezes, so with the pavers, they can move with the frost heaves & I don't worry about the floor cracking. Also, when I spill water it runs thru the joints into the pea gravel under them.
Just put them between the soil boxes where I walk, pea gravel under them.
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[Dillbert]

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[rainbowgardener]

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[Dillbert]

yeah - I copied the image tag from photobucket but it only shows up as a link, not the pix itself.

I'm seeing only the bracketIMG etc in text, at least in preview
and now after posting too.

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[rainbowgardener]

If you take the IMG off your link you get this:


https://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr267/DilbertD/gh01.jpg


If you click on our Img button, paste in your URL above then click our Img button again, you get this:


[img]https://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr267/DilbertD/gh01.jpg[/img]

Usually on photobucket there's an img code under the picture. If you copy that and paste it here, your picture should show automatically and you don't need to do anything else.

Incidentally, nice greenhouse!