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The box is finished, now the roof bars are planted on the pole ends [11] The roof (double sheet polycarbonate) with inclination to the south, and the entrance is to the east [18] In the box the path is covered with bark [34] - and now planting can begin in the beds [35]

Germany 2022: Construction of a little walipini pit greenhouse in a garden 5x3m + appr. 2,5m high
Video: Walipini / pit greenhouse do it yourself - the whole year without freezing
(orig. German: Video: Walipini / Erdgewächshaus selber bauen - ganzjährig FrostFREI)
Video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvk7Sszh6fg
Video on Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/H3EzDxSsSXaX/

  
Title: Build a walipini yourself (orig. German: "Walipini" selber bauen (Erdgewächshaus) [1]

Video on Bitchute: Germany 2022: Little pit greenhouse "Walipini" 365 days a year WITHOUT HEATING! (3'45'')
(orig. German: D 2022: Kleines Grubentreibhaus "Walipini" 365 Tage im Jahr OHNE HEIZUNG! (3'45'')

Video on Bitchute: Germany 2022: Little pit greenhouse "Walipini" 365 days a year WITHOUT HEATING! (3'45'')
(orig. German: D 2022: Kleines Grubentreibhaus "Walipini" 365 Tage im Jahr OHNE HEIZUNG! (3'45'')

Link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/H3EzDxSsSXaX/ - Bitchute channel: NatMed-etc. - uploaded on Aug.17, 2022

The construction work

       
There is a little slope in a garden and here will be installed a pit greenhouse ("Walipini"). There are needed some wooden boards, some poles, some rafters, one door, some screws, and the roof was formed with a polycarbonate double sheet panel [2]
The inner temperature remains warm also in winter times WITHOUT any heating [resp. the earth walls are the heating] [3].

  
Here an excavator comes: It's time to work [4] - Excavator is working digging a pit into the slope [5]

  
The pit is ready soon, the surface is 5 to 3 meters and the walipini is about 2,5 meters high [6]

     
The excavation should be stored just aside the pit 01 for being used after again [7] - The excavation should be stored just aside the pit 02 [8]

  
Now follows the construction of the box with poles and with wooden boards behind 1,2, and some screws are applied (where?) [9,10]

  
The box is ready, now the rafters are fixed on the top of the poles [11] - view on the entrance zone [12]

  
View to the entrance zone with the sight to the back wall [13] - view to the back wall, zoom [14]

  
The back wall is reinforced with additional crossbars where the slope is pressing forward [15] - The roof is put with a twin-wall polycarbonate panel [16]

     
The roof (twin-wall polycarbonate panel), view from above [17] - the roof (twin-wall polycarbonate panel), half inclined view: the roof is inclined to the sun (in Europe to the south), so, the entrance here is in the east [18]


Twin-wall polycarbonate panel, zoom [37]

  
Now the door is installed [19] - Now, the side walls are heaped up [20]

  
As an additional heating, 2 water barrels are put into the corners of the back wall [21]

  
Now the entrance zone is made bigger with inclined wooden walls which are heaped up with earth again [22] - Entrance zone, zoom [23]

  
Now a gutter is added to the roof (collecting of rain water is NOT described in the video) [24] - The wall is heaped up with earth [25]

  
The interior is equipped with shelves [26] - In the interior are 2 water barrels and shelves now [27]

  
In the interior an artemisia plant is put for testing the temperature, and the planting beds are prepared with wooden boards on the ground [28]
The roof edge is protected with a metal border [29]


The entrance zone is heaped up with earth to a maximum [30]

  
Now the owners have installed a little solar panel at the rear wall [31] - Additionally, 3 little ventilators were installed for air circulation [32]


And here something is measured, perhaps the temperature or the air's humidity [33]

  
In the interior the path is covered with bark [34] - And now the planting in the beds can begin [35]


In winter, even citrus plants are growing in the pit greenhouse [36]

Ideas for betterment of the construction: 1) 2 windows - 2) bigger roof - 3) raised beds - 4) 50m long
1) 2 windows: Install 1 window in the low part of the door and another one at the back wall up at the level of the roof for an automatic air draft because without windows and without air draft the air becomes musty.
2) Bigger roof: The roof should protrude more protecting more the border zones of the walipini, so no rain or snow will reach the walipini wall zones
3) Raised beds: The pit has not to be dug out that radically but half of it is enough and then a 1m deep trench is installed so the raised beds will be automatically come out. For high plants and depositing garden instruments one can leave out some part of the raised bed reaching the ground or even go deeper.
4) 50m long: Performing this kind of slope walipini with a 50m long walipini can provide vegetable for several families during summer and winter.
Michael Palomino, Aug.19, 2022

Germany 2022: Construction of a little walipini pit greenhouse in a garden 5x3m + appr. 2,5m high Video: Walipini / pit greenhouse do it yourself - the whole year without freezing (orig. German: Video: Walipini / Erdgewächshaus selber bauen - ganzjährig FrostFREI) -- The construction work --  Ideas for betterment of the construction: 1) 2 windows - 2) bigger roof - 3) raised beds - 4) 50m long

Photo sources
[37] Twin-wall polycarbonate panel, zoom:  https://www.bauhaus.ch/de/pc-hohlkammerplatte-23807758

             

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