Any experienced cottager knows that for seedlings but good soil, regular watering, and requires a large amount of light. Of course, to accommodate all the plants need a place. Well, if you live in a big house, where it is possible to equip the whole greenhouse. But if your living space is too small? Great solution is to create a rack for seedlings. There is an opportunity to purchase the product in the store.
And you can put in a little effort and create it yourself.
Look at how many benefits you get.
- Saving money - the required material costs will cost much less than the cost of the finished rack.
- You yourself will create a design, it is absolutely appropriate to your interior.
- No need to adjust to the standard dimensions of a product - you create the appropriate options on their own.
- Having made a rack with lighting, it can be placed in any convenient location.
- You personally MASTER product and therefore assured of its durability.
Fantasy gardeners it is unlimited - no one stops to invent original "recipe" rack for seedlings.
Content
- 1 We determine the design and construction
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2 Several ideas for shelving their own hands
- 2.1 Wooden shelves of bars
- 2.2 Production of metal collapsible shelf
- 3 The elementary variant - the rack on the windowsill
- 4 VIDEO: Shelving for planting bulbs with their own hands.
- 5 VIDEO: Rack with their hands.
We determine the design and construction
To begin, select the raw materials from which you want to make shelving for seedlings with their own hands. The most popular are wood, iron, plastic. In choosing the material rely on their financial capabilities.
Plastic is the cheapest, but not too durable.
Iron structures sufficiently reliable and durable, have better produce racks, which will constantly be in the same place.
Naturally, the product is more expensive and is complicated to manufacture, since the necessary skills to work with metal.
The optimal variant are wooden pallets.
They are highly durable, does not require special skills, affordable.
If you will give preference to wood - choose varieties do not absorb moisture. If this metal - it is desirable that it was a stainless steel, it prevents the formation of corrosion. Shelf can take plastic or plexiglass - they have for a long time retain their appearance.
You can also use plywood, but it should be covered with an oilcloth, in order to avoid damage.
Constructions are divided into the following types.
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Stationary rack for plants ideal owners large free area. Since the structure does not understand, and recorded in several ways.
Such designs provide reliability and durability.
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Collapsible racks convenient to move, it is possible to adjust the height, size. They are set at the time of growing seedlings, and then removed.
This rack is more difficult to manufacture, but it is ideal if available limited space.
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The window is placed on the rack uprights, arching structure of the sill to the top of the window.
If desired, for greater stability, the design can be additionally fixed to the slope or the frame.
Several ideas for shelving their own hands
Wooden shelves of bars
Before starting work, make a design drawing, it's easier to navigate with the size, the right amount of material. Once the sketch is ready to prepare the following materials and tools:
- Three-meter wooden bar 45 * 45 mm;
- Wooden beam 30 * 60 mm;
- plywood;
- Screws length not less than 4 cm;
- Tape measure, pencil;
- Saw (preferably circular);
- A hammer, a chisel;
- Screwdriver.
Wooden timber-section-to-45-on-45 mm.
The manufacturing process: from the bar 45 * 45 4 make the same stand the desired height, trim the bottom edges of the circular saw to the stability of the product. Next, you need to make cross-bars, which are mounted shelves. From bar 30 * 60 cut the required number of strips.
For napila wood can use circular or hand saw.
On racks in pencil do the layout, which will be cross-bars. In these areas a chisel and a hammer is necessary to build slots for mounting crossbars. When the required number of slots made with screws, screw them to the cross-bars.
The marking of places of fastening bars.
It remains to produce shelf: the simplest option - cut the original block on the same size of the board and fix them on transverse rails between the two uprights. If you decide to make a shelf of plywood, it is necessary to cut it to the required value and the same way of holding the racks.
Making the slots under the crossmember.
Wooden shelving unit is ready. At the end you can cover it with paint. Remember - that it is not cracked, you need to choose a latex or acrylic paint, because they are water-resistant properties. Beautifully will look like a rack, if the scenery apply adhesive tape.
Wooden shelving under seedlings ready.
Production of metal collapsible shelf
To create such a structure Calculate the required amount of material on the basis of the required length and height of the product shelves. Metal area is used as struts, rails and transverse sides shelves.
Calculates the amount of material on the basis of what will be the height of the rack, and a shelf length.
For work you need the following materials and tools:
- Metal area size of 3 * 3 or 4 * 4 cm;
- Thick glass or plywood shelves;
- bolts;
- Drills for metal;
- Welding machine;
- Electric drill;
- Peel, if the shelves are made of plywood or glass cutter, if the glass shelves.
Height of racks depends on what will be the vertical distance between the cross members.
Metal corner cut into 4 equal rack, then cut into a necessary number of transverse splines (usually need from 6 and above).
Make a rack shelf.
Then you need to cut the horizontal load-bearing board for the shelves, the number is multiplied by 2, that is, if you want to make a design on the 4 shelves, the number of carriers equal sides. In the joints of drill holes for the bolts.
Collection design with bolts.
Racks and cross-bars connect the bolts, welding areas need to boil connection crossbars with side planks for future shelves.
Metallic frame ready rack ready.
The frame structure is ready. Now cut into suitably sized shelves, put them on the base of the stack.
We put on the glass cloth base metal rack.
Note! The rack can be done without the shelves, but it will be necessary to make a width of the transverse bars to boxes with seedlings kept tightly between them. As decoration metal rack can be used lighting, it also has a positive effect on plants. And if the construction will be in a little lighted place, the presence of light is a must. In order not to cause harm to plants, it is recommended to use LED, fluorescent or fitolampy.
Do not use incandescent bulbs - they are too warm and can damage plants.
Each lighting component to be fixed below the upper flange so that it covered the bottom. To consolidate the permitted use of a variety of convenient ways you mount - a metal wire, sheet metal cutting tape and others.
The elementary variant - the rack on the windowsill
Side supports can be attached to the slopes of the windows, and on top of them put shelves.
In spite of the selected type of lighting, try to place the seedlings on the south window.
If you do not want to spoil the window, fabricate rack corresponding to the parameters of your window opening, you need the finished furniture boards corresponding to the size of the window sill. Side racks and shelves attach to each other with screws or nails.
Light intensity is adjusted individually for each plant.
This design will easily become a window, because plants need space, it is usually no more than four shelves.
To extend the life and aesthetic reasons, it is possible to use the paint.
This article describes the most simple options structures manufacture.
If you have a vivid imagination and have design skills, you can easily create a variety of shapes rack designs.