The new project

Extra pics of the sunken greenhouse...

 

Oh upon a time this would have been a glorious garden! Fingers crossed for some hidden gems on the plant front but really not sure on this greenhouse and it doesn’t have the growing height I’d like either

 

Is there a boiler house attached? Those heating pipes look pretty hefty.

The raised beds reminds me of the layout of alpine greenhouses.

 

I think the boiler house has disappeared but might be hidden in all the junk. I assumed there should be something but not sure how these pit greenhouses work. Definitely more than a passing resemblance to alpines isn’t there...

 

Oh don't let me stop you! Plenty of other people happy to spend my cash too so design away

The architect has done a full survey of the site now so once I have that I might start to ponder a garden layout...

 

Have been doing some more reading around sunken greenhouses (aka pit greenhouses or malapini) and came across this video of a chap in Arizona building one from scratch. Lots of top tips throughout although I think there's 7 or so videos to the project

 

I'm going to try and consider as many eco-friendly aspects as possible within this new project (money permitting!) and have started with solar panels as a part of the new roof - New build solar energy.

What other things should be on the list? Some form of underwater storage? Some form of sustainable drainage system (SUDS)? I'm sure there's a long list but that's about as far as I've got

 

Any ideas on costs for those?

 

Well we'll have heavy machinery on site so it might be an option. I'll have a read up

 

Good news. The greenhouse timbers seem to be mostly OK. They're damp without doubt but the worst of the bad bits are the verticals between the panes where they have nailed them on to separate the strips of panes -


The more solid rafter underneath is is surprising condition. Lots of work but definitely fixable!

Also paced it out and it's about 8m x 3m (about 26' x 10' in old money)