Easy Way To Build a Small Greenhouse

Easy Way To Build a Small Greenhouse
This is a portable greenhouse, good to start seeds or small vegetables  (basil, parsley, salad, cilantro...). it's really fast and easy to built, and super economic and ecologic, I made mine all out of scraps and in little more than an hour.
Materials :
  1. Big plastic can (white is better)
  2. Transparent or semi transparent plastic sheet
  3. 4 screw with 4 nuts;
  4. 4 little piece of plywood about an inch by an inch;
  5. a piece of bike inner-tube;
  6. Duck tape
Tools :
  1. Jigsaw
  2. Power Drill

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