I posted about a week ago that I was going to look at making a shelf for Frankenstein’s greenhouse that I could put strawberries on in the hope of getting an early crop. The mess of reclaimed timber leaning against the workshop wall started irritating me, so today’s the day.
I went through all the shorter pieces and cut them into shelf “brackets” that I could screw to the uprights of the greenhouse wall, and fitted them using a level from each to the next, using some reclaimed stainless screws that I’m probably not going to have another use for.
A couple of the longer pieces I cut to length for the shelf itself, and screwed to the brackets so it can’t slip off. Then so the pots aren’t sitting directly on the shelf and holding damp where it can rot the wood, I found some offcuts of EPDM that I used for a roof and lay that on top.
It doesn’t make quite enough space for all the pots of strawberries (I think there was room for twenty-six and I had twenty-nine), but perhaps I can make another shelf for the north-west wall as well as the north-east one.
