I have the run of a nursery that doesnâÂÂt throw anything away. I have found many pieces of beautiful old weathered boards and also stump sections.

Good luck on your move,buddy.Hope everything goes smoothly. As far as roses go-make haste slowly.Look the local situation over carefully as far as nematode problems,thrips,nurseries,water restrictions and you may decide that some of the semi-tropicals make more sense.The only reason I grow roses here is they do very well,if not we would plant something else. My area is micro-climate controlled by the ocean.Just a few miles inland it gets much hotter in summer,colder in winter.As it is we have nearly perfect weather for roses.Also we have beach sand soil,which is alkaline-inland its acidic soil from the eons of marsh stuff rotting.They are restricted by nematodes to a few antiques or fortuniana rootstock.We aren't. My pointless point is that to grow any plant where it doesn't want to be doesn't make a whole lot of sense IMHO.lol

Nice system, I have an idea or two that might make winter heating a little easier.... The first thing I would suggest is possibly putting up an inside layer of clear plastic in the greenhouse, it will help to keep your greenhouse warmer. Two layers help to trap heat and light much better than one, and provides an insulative space between the two, you want the inside plastic to hang away from the glass giving you a 4 to 6 inch dead air space. I experimented with pallet built greenhouses that doubled as chicken coups in the winter for a few years and I was able to keep them in the 40's without any heat other than the chickens excess body heat. They were small buildings, 6 x 10 8 ft tall with 6 chickens in each. I also have found using rotting hay and manure buried in the floor of the house useful for creating heat in the winter also, though it has the drawback of being rather stinky and producing a great deal of methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and water moisture. This could lead to fungus problems in a permanent structure I imagine. I have not tried it yet but I have always wanted to use a manure and hay pile outside the building with pipes run under to circulate air through as a winter heat source, eliminates having the mulch heat source within the greenhouse. As for stove heat in a greenhouse I picked up a number of old 250 gallon oil tanks and converted on into a stove with a 55 gallon barrel stove kit. These tanks will hold up 1/4 of a cord of wood at a time, I am able to put up to 5 ft long material in it and up to 10 inches in diameter. I made the stove specifically so that I could efficiently burn brush and garbage wood in it as a heat source. I bundle all my brush in the summer into 8 inch or so diameter bundles and stack them and fill the stove with those. I am able to shut the stove down quite well and can burn a load of rotten logs for about 4 to 5 days a load. Burning brush I have to add material in the morning and in the evening. This stove produces mass amounts of heat though, enough to heat that greenhouse about 4 to 5 times over. If you can get a bigger stove that you can seal air tight you can get it to keep producing good heat for up to days at a time through the winter If you design it to where you can use garbage wood and brush as a heat source it is quite handy and if you can keep it going for a while it handy. Again, nice system and good luck with your peas, I start growing peas in the house in February, very pretty having all those flowers hanging in the windows.

MMark, Seems like the east got enough winter for all of us. There is no predicting Mother Nature. Mamuang I suspect you will wind up with a great fruit crop because your trees will bloom late and on time like normal. The little breaks we get from winter frequently cost is a years crop when the trees bloom early. Cousinfloyd I collect late so it keeps easier which seems to take better for me. Bob I'm glad you said that because that gives me a reason to hold off on my pruning. I'm surprised how cold it has been there this year. It may be our turn for a nasty winter next year.