Mini Greenhouse for $20. Worth it?

It was about 8 or so foot wide by about 30 foot long. It does help to have someone to give a hand with the plastic and the tie-down.

Found another link here to an idea

http://doorgarden.com/10/50-dollar-h...se-green-house


This is the one I was looking for. It is the one we based ours on. I am going to make another one later this year so I can extend my season and have an earlier start next year. Though, truth be told I usually start seeds in January any way. Late start this year because I am re-doing the sun room and it is taking more time than I had budgeted for it.

http://www.albertahomegardening.com/...le-greenhouse/


You can fasten the plastic to the hoops half way up the walls with lathe then you can slide the side walls up to give better ventilation. Actually - we didn't even bother with the lathe, but we did have some 2x4 welded wire over about 1/3rd of the length for growing peas, pole beans and melons.

Mary

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Well, as ive come to understand it, You cant raise seedlings in a greenhouse, as its too cold. You have to have a place near a window where they will get the sun, and will need grow lights at night. Also they need only 14hrs of light a day.

Beginning to think it aint worth it

You CAN raise seedlings in a greenhouse...they do it all the time....but you can't start them too early without some source of heat. If you are talking raising things now (at least in Ohio), it's way too early. You'd need more heat than it is worth (especially with the single layer plastic). How many seedlings are you thinking? It might be cheaper just to buy plants from a nursery later when it is planting season. If you only want 1/2 dozen of each...that's what I'd do. The packet of seeds would cost you more than a 1/2 dozen plants.

yeah, I thought about starting a doz tomatoes, a couple hundred sweet corn plants, a hundred beet seed, a couple hundred pea seed. I have a heck of a time growing peas.

I'm trying to decide if you are pulling my leg, or I'm just naïve about how they grow stuff in other places. Who, except for a city farmer who wants a couple because they are cute, would "start" sweet corn?? Or beets? Or peas?? Those things grow SO easily from seed in the ground. Peas grow so fast, why would you pre-start them? Throw them in the ground and put row covers over them if you want them faster.

Ok, you ARE pulling my leg, right???

Ive had problems getting a full stand of sweet corn, and since my NOW garden is 18 X 36, I want to make sure each space that is supposed to have a ear growing DOES have a ear growing. Same with the beets, and especially the peas. It aint got nothing to do with them growing fast. Its got to do with them growing PERIOD. I get a REAL blotchy stand of peas, then im fighting to decide to keep what I got, or take them up and try again with something else. Last year, I took what started out being 4 rows of peas, and when I had them transplanted, I barely made one row.
\Im guessing its cause you get way more rain than I do.

What state are you located? Can you water stuff??

Even if you start it indoors and then plant it outside, there is no guarantee that you can keep it alive. If it won't grow in the dirt from a seed, why would you think it will grow from a plant (that needs even more care than a seed)?

I think I would just over-seed when I planted, and be more vigilant about watering and mulching and such. Then, if you need to, you can thin the rows out later.

well, I got two for my husband last weekend. Mostly just to keep the cat from climbing and laying on his seedlings, lol. Its PERFECT for that.

Claudia

cc Im in Okla. I have to catch or haul all my water. Ive always had more luck with plants than I have had with seed.

With the exception of the tomatoes the other stuff needs to be seeded outdoors. Peas can probably be planted at the end of this month. Keep an old sheet to cover them with if we get a really cold spell, but they withstand a light frost. You need to use the Rhizobia innoculant for best results. Beets I could never get to grow really well. You do know that they are three seeds in one capsule, right? You have to thin them mercilessly to get even a moderate yield. I have never heard of anyone planting corn indoors.

Yes, Tomatoes need to start indoors with grow lights and bottom heat to do well, otherwise you might as well wait till Spring and sow then. I usually start mine real early and just repot as necessary. That way my early maturing ones are already showing fruit by time I put them all outdoors.

This year I am really behind, I am hoping to get the tomatoes and peppers started this weekend if my grand daughter comes on out and we can get the sun room finished.

Mary

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