Restoring an old greenhouse. Does anyone know what these PVC pipes might have been used for?
These white PVC pipes are all along the garden beds in a greehouse I'm restoring. I can't tell if they're irrigation or drainage or something else. Any ideas?
Are they connected together underground? If you talk into one in the end, can someone on the other end of what would be a continuous line hear your voice inside the tube on their end?
bipolarearthovershot
Probably earth tubes to move heat/air into the greenhouse
KaiserSushi
Google climate battery
ThisDamnComputer
Are they deep enough to go below the frost barrier in your area? If you’re in a colder area it could be a kind of geo thermal heating
Are they parallel to each other on either side? If so they might be anchors for a hoop trellis.
mwdotjmac
Watering the bed. Something like an earth box.
loveisking
We had something like this, in Idaho it got really cold so when we did out seedlings we would have a green house inside the greenhouse. Those would be where we would have put the poles on, then draped plastic over the top of the mini greenhouse. It cut down the amount of area we were heating and cut our costs. By the time transplanting started it would be warm enough and we would remove the mini greenhouse.
HamsterNo3795
Deep winter greenhouse, should be sewer fan to move the air
Hortusana
Where are you located? Deep winter green houses work by allowing the hot air to heat concrete or gravel buried beneath the greenhouse, and then letting the trapped heat keep it warm through the night.
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Are they connected together underground? If you talk into one in the end, can someone on the other end of what would be a continuous line hear your voice inside the tube on their end?
Probably earth tubes to move heat/air into the greenhouse
Google climate battery
Are they deep enough to go below the frost barrier in your area? If you’re in a colder area it could be a kind of geo thermal heating
Could also be for deep watering (example https://i.ytimg.com/vi/27gFwBuM8ts/sddefault.jpg)
GAHT system?
SO COOL!
Are they parallel to each other on either side? If so they might be anchors for a hoop trellis.
Watering the bed. Something like an earth box.
We had something like this, in Idaho it got really cold so when we did out seedlings we would have a green house inside the greenhouse. Those would be where we would have put the poles on, then draped plastic over the top of the mini greenhouse. It cut down the amount of area we were heating and cut our costs. By the time transplanting started it would be warm enough and we would remove the mini greenhouse.
Deep winter greenhouse, should be sewer fan to move the air
Where are you located? Deep winter green houses work by allowing the hot air to heat concrete or gravel buried beneath the greenhouse, and then letting the trapped heat keep it warm through the night.
https://preview.redd.it/r5evgjg4tbte1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a7e3b2e146f7dd7d6af726afcd4eb0f55ae61d4
Earth battery installment. That’s awesome. Best of luck in all of your endeavors!
Watering