Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today is the day where we are going to put the
plastic back on the dry storage if you remember in the video just from the other day we talked about
how uh due to the winds from the recent massive Stormfront that came through the east coast of
the United States behind winds after all the rains um ripped the plastic off of our dry storage it is
supposed to rain tomorrow so this got moved to the absolute tip toop of the list of things to
do we have a great crew here this morning because when you're putting plastic on a green house or
a structure like this um numbers is key because you have one huge massive sheet of plastic that
you've got to put on and we're out here bright and early in the morning because it's nice and still
you do not want to put plastic on when there is the slightest bit of wind because you will have a
ma massive kite and we will all go flying away uh so what we're doing um Jerry and Andrew are down
there um and you can see basically right we just have the bones of this structure this was uh two
old green houses that the original green houses that were down at the nursery and so when we put
the new re retail Greenhouse up we kept the bones and made one nice long structure Jerry we got um
one of a local shops to Fashion us extender poles so we made them longer so we were able to elevate
the whole structure so that we can get I mean like the Bobcat will fit through here all the
machines everything will fit through here we do use this as dry storage so we have all of
like the proven winter um pots for our annuals are here like those are the trays you can see
we've got like lime and fertilizer and uh grass seed uh I mean just all sorts of different kinds
of storage right we've got biotone down there we've got some of the older t-shirts You Name
It We had it what we're going to do or what they have already done rather is removed the what was
left of the solid white plastic that was covering this greenhouse so they went ahead and ripped the
rest of it off it was just a little bit was left on the structure just on the back side so they
got rid of that um and right now what Andrew is doing is finishing putting on the track this is
the track this metal track right here um this is actually where the plastic will attach to
the structure and so this he's just finishing up on this side this was the one side that did not
have this is a wiggle wire track it's the best way and the easiest way to hold the plastic onto um a
greenhouse or a structure like this we had it on the um the front and the other side but we didn't
have it on this side um when we were putting the structure up so it was was like basically
the plastic was was nailed between two boards and that was part of the problem so what the wiggle
wire looks like is um it's a nice easy it's you can see how it gets its name um let me show you
this so this is next door right on the greenhouse so here you have a layer of clear plastic um this
is the track underneath it so you have the track you lay the plastic on top and then you see this
wire right here and it Wiggles back and forth so this is what we weave into the track and it holds
the plastic on like you you're not pulling this off so it goes on all the sides it goes down and
then um like you can see on this greenhouse it's holding up the curtain that rolls up of course on
the dry storage it's just going to be all the way down so it's going to be on both sides and
then you can see we already have it here on the um the front as well so we have all hands on deck uh
Mary CLA is our official wiggle wire girl uh that was years and years ago I know when we did I guess
what the first greenhouse and we put that up uh because Mary clar worked with us uh years ago and
so she was in charge of holding the wiggle wire and handing it to Jerry as he needed it sounds
like an easy job but that wiggle wire gets really connected and intertwined with one another it can
be quite challenging so what we're going to do is like I said we've got one massive it is one
huge massive piece of plastic that will go from the bottom all the way across all the way down
the front will remain open for now it is on the to-do list to build a um a wall here so because
that will help when the wind comes it will retain that wind and block that wind rather so so that
way the wind doesn't come in and get up underneath the plastic and pull it plus it will help keep you
know when it rains and Rain can't blow in and and all the things So eventually the idea is to put
a solid like a wood type wall here with a door obviously that you can still get in and all that
other good stuff so uh basically yeah that's what we're going to do as we go through the process um
I will show you how we do it but it is going to be a nice solid white piece of plastic and um yeah so
I guess we'll just finish up getting the track on that Andrew is doing and then we'll move on from
there all right my friends so what they're doing is Jerry and Andrew rolled out the plastic so a
little bit longer than what the greenhouse is cuz you always want to have too much plastic and not
enough because again this is one piece of plastic uh big correction it is not a solid white one it
is going to be clear we had solid white own but Jerry has a um H had a roll of clear so this is
going to be like clear where on the other green houses now the way that you get this up is um
you can see is so Jerry grabbed up a wad of the plastic and then we tie a rope around it
you can also put a tennis ball in there and that gives you more structure um tie your rope around
it super super tight and you do that a couple of places down the Rope of the plastic take that rope
and you toss it over the greenhouse so maybe we do this in three or four places and then you can see
that Jackson is holding the Rope so there's some good tension right there um once everybody's in
place basically you have um a person holding the Rope on the other side of the greenhouse house see
if we have three ropes you've got three people and then the rest of us will be on this side of
the greenhouse and of course we're starting to get the slightest bit of a wind so this is going
to be fun um so we help unroll it and then once it's over we hold it down because if there's wind
then it could just flip back over and we have to do it all over again uh I know you're going to
ask Brena is here she is uh leashed up to Johnny because we cannot have her walking on this plastic
she has little toenails uh large toenails as a German shepherd and we do not want to risk her
walking on this and puncturing it it is on the gravel but that's all right nobody's going to
walk on it we'll be okay and it is thick this is not like Saran Wrap right so we have a nice
thick so there uh Andrew is getting the very end tied up and then we'll probably just do one in
the middle um yeah and then once everybody pulls it over everybody holds it down and then we hold
it as the wiggle Wile wire starts to go on and then once we have some good sections of Wiggle
wire then we can kind of let go and help with that but um just say a quick little prayer that the uh
wind does not pick up because it is starting I can already feel just the slightest little
breeze on a massive piece of plastic like this doesn't take much so we're going to get [Music]
going [Music]
all right I just want to pop on here real quick to give you a little bit of an update plastic
is on had a little bit of wind nothing too horrible um Jerry got just as a placeholder
really just to hold the the plastic down like a piece initially first on the front of the
greenhouse so it wouldn't just blow off and then we went ahead and worked down um the woods side
of the greenhouse and got all the wiggle wire in we're probably going to have to go back and remove
some of that because um just because you want the plastic as taunt and as tight as possible
and it's it's hard to get it taunt and tight when it's there's no reference to pull towards we're
trying to get as much of the wrinkles out so you can see down here between the green houses we've
got a whole slew of people so you've got to both pull the plastic down towards the ground and then
to the left or to the right to try to get all of the um just as tight as you possibly can so it's
a definitely a team effort and sometimes like I said we you put the wiggle wire in then you're
going to go have to go back when one section is done and then wrinkles appear in another section
and then redo that it's just the process it's just the way that it goes again just the slight
like it is just a slight breeze but you can see how that plastic is moving and um we do not cut
plastic at all until it is quote as perfect as is possible that we want and then we will come back
through and of course trim off all of the excess so right now what we're trying to do is just going
back and forth different different areas Jerry was up in the ladder um inside the dry stores trying
to like push the plastic you know and get all of that extra um Wiggle out so that the folks on this
side like CC and them can pull it even Tighter and roll it down and just pull it nice and tight
so that's what we're doing Andrew and Jerry are the the main wiggle wire applicators and we're
feeding them the wire and then just trying to um get those wrinkles out so that's enough [Music]
SA [Music] we are making some awesome progress and in fact we are wrapping it up right now uh plastic
is completely on like I showed you earlier all the wigger wire is put in here on the um backside so
this is where the greenhouse little hallway meets the annex gives you kind of uh dry storage rather
I keep calling it a greenhouse um so on this side what we had to do because we do have that wooden
um wood in wall here and you can see that when we made the wood wall that we didn't we had a gap
right here right so which is not a problem wiggle wire right here um probably just need to cut this
extra off right here so it doesn't grab anybody and then what we did is came and just pulled the
plastic and wrapped it in not this way but in so when it rain me it will shed down and then Jerry
used um these are what are they I don't forget what they're called roofing nails but they have
it's the nail and then it has that big nice wide washer so it holds it so that is all the way down
and then all the way up so it has wiggle wire and that as well so water will shed down and then of
course this is um you know treated lumber so it will withstand any kind of any water also this
side gets no sun that is because um so that's why we have a wooden in wall and even if we turn it
into a greenhouse that's not going to be a problem because Sun never comes in this direction to it
because of the way it it lays now as you can see we have put a Shea cloth onto the structure we're
doing that because this is the clear poly and that UV light will go right through it and it
will get quite warm so we just actually pulled this off of production one which was next door
and brought it over uh I don't have any footage of that because I had to run back to the house to get
uh the black braided cord uh to rope to tie this down and my people forgot to turn the video on
the camera on when they brought it over so you'll just have to trust me that it was super easy that
I think Andrew just threw one rope over and then just we just pulled it straight from the next door
Greenhouse onto dry storage so um now uh you will be able to see that on this side it basically goes
all the way down to the ground that is because this is going to get more direct sun on this side
so we're going to go ahead and just cover this whole side and CC is going down uh Andrew came
in I think and put some screws into the the board underneath there so it's underneath the wiggle
wire and then just cinching that down um and did that every I don't know 12T or so so all the way
down the shake cloth is on uh nice and easy and then on the side between next to the production
house it's up a little higher and that's just because it'll get uh a little bit of a shaded
because of um the greenhouse right next door so coming in you can see where that is Jerry what do
you know what the coverage is on this shade cloth 55 55 so the coverage is is a 55 so you can get
shade claws in different strengths like how much it blocks out the Sun so this is a a 55% blockage
so you can get them from light all the way up to like nearly blackout if you want to call it a a
Blackout um but yeah so it's on it's nice and tight it looks a million times better than the
original one and if when we decide to turn this into a heated Greenhouse all we'll have to do is
just take off the Sha cloth add on another layer of the same poly plastic and then of course like
the heater and that kind of stuff but yeah it'll be really easy to convert this to a growing space
so there you go there is a morning in the life of Creekside Nursery here uh so we were it was so
funny because we were way back in that back corner and we were all down there we had just like worked
ourselves down as we were working and we got all stuck down in the corner so we took a little staff
photo it was very cute we had lots of fun doing this so it's not even lunchtime and this job is
essentially complete so it's a great day here at Creekside Nursery as always we hope you found this
fun informative and inspirational youall have a great day we'll see you in the next video bye
friends