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Tag Archives: greenhouse
Making growing dome 2
Make a five-eighths, three-frequency icosahedron greenhouse for £30
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Tagged dome, geodesic, greenhouse, growing, icosahedron, recycled
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Materials for growdome2
I wanted to make a greenhouse growing dome using recycled materials
An icosahedron growing dome
The grow dome worked very well in the spring, nearly all the seeds sprouted but there were a couple of problems.
Building a DIY greenhouse
For this basic ‘wild’ dome construction I used a very simple method of joining struts
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Tagged build, DIY, dome, geodesics, greenhouse, hazel, icosahedron
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Planning a DIY greenhouse
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.
an icosahedron primer
An icosahedron is a 20 faced spherical shape recognised even by Ancient Greek mathematics – I use one here to make a greenhouse