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Making growing dome 2

Posted on August 5, 2011 by simonthescribe

Make a five-eighths, three-frequency icosahedron greenhouse for £30

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Materials for growdome2

Posted on August 5, 2011 by simonthescribe

I wanted to make a greenhouse growing dome using recycled materials

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An icosahedron growing dome

Posted on August 3, 2011 by simonthescribe

The grow dome worked very well in the spring, nearly all the seeds sprouted but there were a couple of problems.

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Building a DIY greenhouse

Posted on August 3, 2011 by simonthescribe

For this basic ‘wild’ dome construction I used a very simple method of joining struts

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Planning a DIY greenhouse

Posted on August 3, 2011 by simonthescribe

I built a fair size greenhouse dome with a diameter of 315cm, an internal height on the inside edges of 165cm sloping up to 230cm in the middle.

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an icosahedron primer

Posted on August 1, 2011 by simonthescribe

An icosahedron is a 20 faced spherical shape recognised even by Ancient Greek mathematics – I use one here to make a greenhouse

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