So we just started building our second glass house. If you search under my user name you can find pics of the first one. We moved even before we got to finish that one so the new owner got a great perk with the house :) Got the foundation and floor in this weekend (now have to run down and get the building permit!) and am waiting on Home Depot for 2 16 foot beams I need for the top sides. This one will be 12 x 16 with 10 foot high walls and and an 8 foot ceiling peak. The first greenhouse was 8 x 12 with 8 foot walls and a ceiling height dictated by the windows I had. This new one will have a metal roof so we will have a much steeper pitch. I went to pick up some windows from a lady on Craigslist and she also threw in these 2 great old french doors - really narrow and tall. They will be the focal point of the building. Can't wait to get the walls up. It's like putting a puzzle together. Someone on my facebook page said:" You know you can build a pvc hoop and plastic greenhouse for about $250." I said it wasn't really going to be used as a greenhouse and I wanted something a lot nicer looking than that for my glass garden house. It has to fit in with my 1780 colonial.

Hi all, I've seen a lot of tomato and pepper swaps, and "edibles" swaps here on GW, but I think it will be fun for me to host one focusing on Greens & Salads for St Pats!! I've done a salad swap on GW before, a few years back. Rules: Newbies welcome, but if your email address is blocked, you won't be able to participate in this. Your seeds must arrive by St. Patricks Day (March 17). I won't hold up the swap for late seeds. They must be in a bubble mailer big enough to hold all your seeds, with a little extra room to spare. Please enclose a return address label and also enough return postage to get your seeds back to you... Whatever it costs to send it in, please include that much in the way of stamps so I can send it back. If your package winds up more than .15 short on postage I won't be able to send it back to ya, cause I live on a tight budget! No more than 3 packs of the same kind of seeds, please. Minimum 5 packs, maximum 20 seed packs per person. Seeds should be no older than 2007 unless kept in a refrigerated seed bank. Heirlooms and hybrids are both OK. If hybrid, they need to be commercial, not saved seed because otherwise they may not grow. The seeds should be for things you might use in a salad or its dressing, such as lettuces (NOT Iceberg though please). Purple cabbage, mesclun or "baby greens" mix, arugula, watercress, radishes, salad-dressing herbs like oregano, sage, parsley and marjoram, green onions, garlic and chives also are all good. Also welcome are cooking greens, including Asian greens like tat soi and choi sum, spinach, broccoli raab, kale, turnip greens and mustards, goosefoot, asparagus, etc. In this swap, MILD salad peppers (no hots!) are welcome too, as are cherry tomatoes (no big tomatoes, we want salad-specific bite sized ones.) Edible annual flowers that can be used in a salad like borage, salad burnet, fennel, violet, pansy, calendula, etc are welcome too. (No perennials such as roses!) Please include a list of what you are sending, so I can hopefully avoid sending you too many seeds that are identical to what you sent in. Include a wishlist of the 3 things you'd most like to get. Send packets with at least 10 seeds per pack, more is better but 10 is ok. Seeds must be clearly labeled (variety name, year packaged, and your GW ID so I don't send you your own seeds.) Growing info such as sun/shade is good too, but not required. If we don't get at least 12 participants signed up here by March 7, this swap will not "make". But I think we can get 12! :) Let's all March into some Green fun together with this swap! Post here if you'd like to join and make sure your email is not blocked. :) Thanks, grovespirit

After reading all the comments above, Its imperative that I make mine. I owned a window tinting company for 22 years. Of all the window manufactures from 1981 to 1999 when we built our custom home, Marvin was the only true quality competitor to Hurd. We chose Hurd when our home was built in 1999. All of our windows are in great shape to this date except a few cranks have worn out and been replaced. All of our HURDS have 1" thick thermo-pane glass units. Ours are aluminum exterior clad w/ pine wood interiors. I tinted them all in 1999 when we moved in and just had all the tinting redone in 2019. All of our HURD windows are 5' to 6' tall each and very wide. we live in the country. I'm totally shocked at all the above comments.

I am addicted to that game. I heard about it from someone that said she was hoooked on to this game. I didn't belong to facebook so didn't know about it. Then I got talked into joining and next thing I know that person invited me and there I became a farmer. I found out after I had been harvesting my own crops that you get more money if you hire from the market. Of if you are like so many that they have their spouses that have a farm too and so they hire each other and then friends too. You will find that they go up really fast doing that. I worked sweat and blood, didn't buy coins why? spend your money in buying coins, earn them. Also its important to have lots of neigbhours too so you can go up in levels that way too. And you not only receive gifts from neigbhours but also you send them out too. That is important too. Yes, its nice to have ones that can send you things that you can't get or buy as there are only a few trees you can buy and to get the others you need neigbhours to send them too. Also the new things that have come out makes it even more interesting and fun to get to those levels to buy them. I am on level 28. I worked very hard, I even had to sell animal to earn money. Also when you click my neighbours, they will at times have you go and tend and visit them and so you earn money that way. I did it that way. I wasn't getting jobs, then I got tiny bit, got one job that I reliazed why spouses and friends were so far ahead and had tons of things on their farms because they were making huge money from them. As I have the full size farm, you have tons of crops that come in and so people get to know when you go to the market to hire. I like to not touch my trees as they don't rot and the fruit on them are so colourful and makes it pretty on the farm. But last night once more this gal wouldn't leave them alone and I kept saying do not touch my trees and she couldn't care less and kept on. I finally clicked ignore and vanished her. And then again in my storage shed where the harvests go into I sold those and then found number one and again another tree harvested. I went huh? Then I got upset and tired and bad day yesterday and logged off of facebook. Came back on and guess what? Another number one in storage shed, more fruit trees again harvested. I didn't like it and to be so rude and disrespectful to do that to my trees. They had huge crops to harvest and so they didn't have to touch my trees. They earned plenty with the crops alone. I had my trees done when I had small farms as I needed the money desperately to plow and seed as that costs money to do. I found out about the wrench icon on top of page on right side and click on it and got lots of things on it. You can hide your trees and buildings as then you can do crops underneath them that way, more land to use. Also checking out farms, I wondered how they had their crops together without the spaces that I did. Same wrench icon I found out stopped the spaces and so got more put in that way. You can freeze your animals. Its fun as the farm sizes grow for you in figuring out your farm the way you like it. Its your personally. Its fun checking out other farms to get ideas and see what they are at and have on it. I love how some really get creative with their crops and spell things,etc. and patterns too. Wow! Also you can do buddies, that is useful when you go to harvest as you will find out you will get booted off here and there. YOu will be busy harvesting for someone and then next thing you know you are booted off and can't get back. But if you made them your buddy you can click on buddy list and click on their farm by their name and get back. Its happening alot especially with huge farms. Also if they hire too many to harvest their farms, that will happen alot then. I will try to hire 3 people when all my crops are ready to harvest. Watch out for the hoggers, some are so fast in harvesting crops and others like me are slow at harvesting. I had this guy that was buzzing bad in the market and I got hired and went good, got away from him and I have this area to harvest that I picked and was enjoying myself and relaxed and then next thing I knew this guy too my harvests. I was upset with him hogging like that. He had already done tons and didn't need to take the bit I had too. Warning its addicting if you sign up to facebook and get invited to play it. Be warned too the larger size farm, the more you have to work on it. One thing is by that time you can buy all the seeds you want of all in the store. Pumpkins take 4 days, onions are 3 days and for me they take too long. Peas I like they take 2 days. And then there are ones that are 2 to one day. I was told to buy potato seeds so that way you have them coming in daily. Do not buy when you start out anything in the store as you need all the money for your plowing and seeds. Unless you are wanting to spend your own money and buy coins to buy stuff. I find its better and nicer to earn them the good ole' hard way by working hard to get up there and to earn the money yourself. It took me forever to buy the white farmhouse which costs 300,000. And I just bought a barn and silo. And the new things that came in I have been buying. Also loving the flowers too that finally have come in. We have been waiting forever for those to come in. I thought the pig was so cute too as its so funny all of a sudden it will fall over on its side sleeping. Too funny. You can click on the animals and the dog will scratch, wag its tail and other animals do things too. It also took me forever to buy the small pond. First came the white farm house. Now the new things are so cheap to buy. I love the river and bridges. Pathways, I blew all my money on dirt pathways as I was building them up around the farm and each time it grew in size, had to buy some more. Enjoy and hope you can work on it so you grow fast to get up to that large size farm and buy so many things that you can't when you are on the smaller sizes.