[nw_arizona_granny]

All good ideas, I have to laugh at the mulch, as it is gone from my yard by day break.

I solved my gardening problems with an attached solar greenhouse, which has over the years managed to blow away too, along with a roof or two and the stove pipe.

Yes, I would like to move, but I won’t I waited too long and am now a shut in, so no moving for me in this life.

Thanks for the link, I will dig around there for more ideas.

[familyop]

"All good ideas, I have to laugh at the mulch, as it is gone from my yard by day break."

Hmmm. There is a cheap, black, coarse cloth that I've used over foundation drains (over perforated pipe that goes around foundations--keeps silt from clogging the drains). Maybe something like that would help to retain outdoor soil around plants. I'm not sure.

I'm going to try polycarbonate glazing for greenhouses and some short solar walls under windows. The following site is the first one that I found, so the glazing (polycarbonite plastic) can probably be had for lower costs. It also appears that each price at the following site is for several sheets of the stuff (5 or so?). It comes in twin-wall...

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1023-1--TwinWall-6mm.Htmhttp://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1023-1--TwinWall-6mm.Htm

three-wall...

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1021-2--Heat-Saver-3-Wall-6mm.Htm

four-wall...

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1024-3--4-Wall-8mm-Polycarbonate.Htm

...and another kind for roofing greenhouses.

http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/193-247-1022-4---IR-Infrared-TwinWall-Roof-Panels-6mm.Htm

...and hardware to fasten it together. I'll probably build far tougher framing than what they're selling for it, but the bar caps might be alright. Hopefully the panels will bend enough for me to build greenhouses in quonset hut shapes. ...and snow fences and berms (for slowing down the wind).