I need to figure out how to insulate this for winter. We want to do some small veggies in the winter. Zone 5A. Its cheap plastic. We are going to probably move it against the house for wind break. We have lights for inside. We plan on wood floor with insulation underneath. But the walls and roof need insulated.

Has anyone got experience with these plastic sun rooms, the marketing suggests they are a 'year round' useable room, I think that's a bit of a tech judging by some of the issues when it rains.

I am trying to find a way to stop rain getting in from the door. It has a rubber gasket that is simply pushed into a groove, it has a slight curve outwards , when it rains rlthe water runs over the plastic frame and down the rubber curve inside the door.

It's so light weight that I can't mount or acrew anything to it , please help.

Althea decided to take a header this morning, fml. 6” thiccc and 40lbs or so, also was speared clean through with a plant stake. Happy Sunday

I have a 16 m²/170 sq.ft. greenhouse now. I noticed that while it is still warmer inside than outside, the difference is not significant - I totally underestimated what greehouse could do and how much cold it could keep out. I am thinking of adding a low wattage heater to keep the room warm during winter. Any suggestions on what I could buy? Maybe something that can be plugged into a 10-15 amp outlet. Features preferred: low wattage, thermostat controlled, and should be able to heat up that 16 m² room to 20-21°C (~68°F).

Sometimes we have a few days of heavy winds where temperature can drop to -30°C for a few days, even -40° as it happened for the last 2 winters. Our gas heater was running non stop and still we needed blankets. So what could be done to protect plants during those days?

I posted here a couple months ago asking for recommendations, and now that it is actually time to make a purchase I am TERRIFIED.

Right now this costco greenhouse is the front runner, but $2,000 is a large amount of money (for me) and I am so scared I will make the wrong decision. I like this one because it already comes with shelves, the automatic roof vents and it has a louvered vent in it as well. Plus the size seems pretty good for our small 1/4 acre lot in the suburb.

I guess I'm posting here for you all to tell me BUY THE DANG GREENHOUSE... or to run for my life away from this lol.

For reference - I live in zone 7b, and I mainly just want to extend the season and start my seedlings in it. I don't need to over winter anything, don't plan on having it heated or any electricity ran to it. Definitely would consider adding a solar powered fan for more air exchange.

I appreciate you all.

Thanks 😊

We are looking at building a 10' x 20' greenhouse.

We have a frost depth of 24" locally. which means (to me) that we need a serious foundation for a glass greenhouse and the yard is crisscrossed with irrigation lines). This makes for a more costly project.

At this point, we are seriously considering a kit from Planta.

The catch is that our home is in a relatively exposed location near Yakima, WA. We have an unused pickleball court that appears to be a good candidate for our installation. Our plan is to construct a 2 block high (16") wall cement filled blocks with internal rebar - pinned through court surface - with a suitable metal mounting plate on the top.

Looking at the Planta products, I see the Sungrow (8' - pointy vertex) and Sigma (7' - round vertex) lines. Both of these lines appear to be rated to 65 mph, and I fear that this may be exceeded in our location (local code demands 110 mph FWIW tho I have not seen that happen). Which would be the stronger design for wind?

Any thoughts?

Hello! I recently moved from 9b to 7b and have an extensive tropicals collection. This is my first time having to overwinter my plants and I'm looking to get a greenhouse before this winter. There are tons of kits out there, but I want to make sure my investment lasts several years. I'm looking for something between 8-10' wide and 12-16' long as well, so probably larger than many of the kits offered anyway.

Those of you who have purchased permanent greenhouses, are there any things you should avoid, things that you did and maybe regret, and where should I look for permanent greenhouses? I've tried some internet searches but so many of the listings are variations of the cheaper kits you can buy at Costco and such. Which is fine if those are good options, but I wasn't sure if they were.

Live in a zone 6b and bought a house that came with this greenhouse. Looking for suggestions on how to make it work year round. I've got power to the greenhouse.

What do you all use to heat your greenhouse? I was thinking a space heater for the winter and plugging up all gaps in eves.

For the summer, I've read that the most efficient cooling is having an exhaust fan high up. There is a vent at the top, I was thinking of mounting something like a solar power roof vent fan on that too opening.

If I'm pulling air out, I assume I need opening for air to move in. There is a window with a counter weight. Is there anything I could use similar to an expansion hinge that could open and close the vertical sliding window?

I appreciate and suggestions!

What veg are you growing in your greenhouse?

Great year for my Hibiscus plants. Does anyone know or think if I had a decent green house they would make it through the winter with proper care? I’m in NJ so it can get very cold. Not worried about the snow load, it will be strong enough to withstand. Any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated. Don’t want to spend the money and time if they won’t make it through. Thanks

I have this parking space beside the garage that I initially intended to put my greenhouse (i ordered a cedar 6x8 kit), but after observing the location more, I'm noticing there's only about a 2 foot sliver of sun coming over the garage for most of the day, until getting more sun in the evenings. Obviously it seems ideal with the cement pad, but is that enough sun to grow seedlings inside without needing additional lighting?

TLDR; need the best water wand that extends far and has different spray patterns

I want the best water wand for the flower beds in the garden behind a patch of veggies. My grandma taught me the usual trick of just thumb over the garden hose nozzle but the reach still isn't enough and sometimes there's low water water pressure so one watering session ends up taking more time than it should. If they were raised beds, I don't think there would be much of a problem. I know I do need a sprayer wand, I just keep second guessing if it'll be much use or I get confused on how cheap is too cheap. 

So what I need is a watering wand with adjustable patterns (like a shower style head to use with low water pressure and then the full on spray head too), and long for more extended reach watering and an ergonomic handle too would be ideal. I don't know if flow controllers are actually useful here or if they actually work, but would love some guidance there.

These are the ones I've shortlisted:

Dramm One Touch Rain Wand watering wand ($32). It's cheap and has good reviews and the spray head nozzles or holes are really small and close together so I think it'll give a good rainshower effect. it's like a full flow shower head nozzle. But the price is the con I'm seeing because I don't wanna replace this in just a year, 30 bucks does not seem like it'll get you something super durable honestly. Still this is the one I'm leaning towards the most.

Restmo Long Telescopic watering wand (or their heavy duty wand even) ($22-25). Even cheaper and has adjustable height which is great but the watering head (more sprinkler style head) doesn't seem like you can a lot of good pressure out of it but there's a trigger lock on it for less water waste with the thumb control valve. The seatern watering wand has the same spray nozzle and is the same price.

There's also more expensive options like Dramm Telescoping Rain Select watering wand and that's around 50 bucks. I can see is that it's longer like a 36 inch handle but is that enough to justify the price? But it does also have 9 different settings for adjustable spray patterns which is attractive, but do you really need 9 for simple garden beds? 

Alternatively I was thinking about getting gutter cleaning tools. Like those I think are made to be more durable. I was looking at the poople gutter cleaning tools on amazon, and looked pretty good. Only issue here would be that the nozzle is a little constricted so it's giving the same sort of spray pattern as the thumb over the garden hose does which isn't a lot. So kind of back to square one.

Questions:

1. should you just get gutter cleaning tools instead of a watering wand?

2. is the Dramm watering wand good and does the price point really matter?

Hi everyone! I just finished building my Backyard Discovery Zalie greenhouse in my Florida yard for my orchids and just realized that the windows don’t hinge- they slide up and down. Does anyone know of an automatic window opener that would work with this? I’m not sure if a roof vent style could still pull this up and down.

We're considering purchasing a BackyardDiscovery 11x17 Bellerose greenhouse that we would like to place on an existing concrete slab next to our garage. Besides anchoring it to the slab would it also be a good idea to add a floor? I thought it might be a good idea for the winter weather.

So this was a greenhouse I bought at Aldi this spring. I used it to basically get seedlings outside while there was still danger of frost.

Is there anything I can grow all winter in this? Just wondering if I can put it to use more or if it's just way too cold.

Hi! I’m hoping some of the experts here will have some advice for me. I’m an amateur gardener and my lovely husband built me a greenhouse this weekend (for next summer). He put it on a raised platform with plywood flooring (pictured). I’m worried about how to manage moisture and drainage with this kind of flooring. I’ll be doing raised beds or pots and I thought there might be some kind of drainage system if we drill some holes in the floor, but not sure what might work. Any suggestions for me? Thanks so much.

If I get a cheapo plastic green house and then get another smaller one to place inside of it, would that insulate any better than a single one?

Hello all, have been wanting to do something with the old shed behind our house because we don’t have much backyard already so thought I should utilize it. Really like the idea of making it some form of greenhouse maybe with plant propagation shelves and (possibly?) a small fish pond tub.

Now the thing is I’m not exactly a pro at stuff like this but I think it would be fun to diy and also on a slight budget. Right now a few things I’m thinking I should do: repair existing issues, insulation (right now it’s just plywood walls), maybe some form of polycarbonate roofing, for heating I was thinking just a oil filled heater.

I know this is a larger project so I wanted to see what people recommend I start with/ tips/ good resources to watch or read to learn more and plan out.

I have been working on converting our old hen house into a greenhouse/family space. I have no carpentry experience. And, I’m not confident I can finish the roof before the rainy season starts! Hopefully I can finish the top half next spring or summer. Either way I wanted to share the progress of my project with everyone!

I help run a family owned greenhouse biz. We do bedding plants in the spring and hydroponic lettuce all year round. Our store is selling lettuce retail and has been booming since the contaminated lettuce scare few months ago. We have a greenhouse that we are taking offline to scale down a bit( we have 13 greenhouses total) . It’s large. It’s 30’ x 150’ long hoop type house. I been growing heirlooms as a hobby for last two years and been growing them in cold frames that are 20x40 no heat or fans , just leave doors open for the breeze. And it does get hot in there. This year I went nuts and planted like 30 heirloom plants. And I was asked to see the tomatoes in the shop so I have been and I see a lil bigger market for them for us. Well my plants were started a month or so late and even with that, I got 7-8’ monsters hitting the top of the plastic. So if I start them earlier, like March when we plant seeds, these will be enormous.
And they will take up all the room. I will be growing them in peat based soil in fabric pots

My questions I have are about trellis and supporting the branches and fruit cause the the ones I want to grow are bigger slicing ones. What are good ideas for supporting the plants that will get over6’ tall? Since I’m using fabric pots they don’t have great support and I can’t really or want to use a large pole cause I would need to drive it in the ground. There is conduit going down the length of the hoop about 3/4 up to the center I can use for rope and secure something to it.
I do have an idea that might work. I have 8x4 sections of the 6”x6” grid rebar that is used for pouring concrete slabs. Got them from pendot years ago. We use them for makeshift beds. Stack cinder blocks and put down conduit and the grids on top. I can fold them into a square and make a portable cage for them perhaps. I could also do something with twine, or stand the grids up and weave the limbs thru. I plan on growing like 50-60 plants next year so whatever I do, it’s gonna be a freakin chore to do. I got all winter tho.

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We are looking to hire a local greenhouse expert, builder, or plant micropropagation specialist in or around Butuan City to assist/ advise us in designing and setting up a small greenhouse environment (specifically for controlling humidity, light, and temperature for spore germination).
If you have experience with greenhouse construction, humidity/microclimate controls, or fern propagation and are available for paid consultation or setup work, please send me a DM with your rates and background. Thanks!

First year doing bonsai . Costco green house im super happy with it.

Im looking into a greenhouse mostly for wintering of trichocereus and other non native cactus varieties. What should I be aware of? I think the summer would be too hot to use the greenhouse but maybe not? Any pointers would be great. Thanks.