Portable
Greenhouses - Temporary Structures
(Tue Jul 17th, 2007, by Christopher Jay)
If you are in the market for a greenhouse but you don't
need a permanent structure, you can buy a portable greenhouse
that can be built and taken apart quickly, sometimes even
within one half hour. These types of greenhouses are perfect
for seasonal growing in warmer months for harsher climates,
or sometimes for year-round use in more temperate ones.
Usually, all you need to do to put up or take down your
portable greenhouse is to extract the anchors holding
it down at each corner and then collapse the sides and
roof up, securing them to put them away. Another advantage
to
portable greenhouses that if you live in a cold climate,
you can use them in the summer and then remove them and
put them into storage for the cold winter months. Then,
just take them out and put them back up when spring rolls
around again. It also removes the need for you to build
greenhouses that have to endure powerful winds or to
be buried under mounds of ice and snow, for example.
Don't Want to Walk Far? Put One Up Close to Your House
Portable greenhouses can be put as close your houses
you want, so that you have easy access to electricity and
water when you need to tend to the plants inside. You can
also relocate the portable greenhouse easily to where the
sunlight is the strongest by using various locations. For
instance, you may need to move it to one place in the fall
months, when the sun is strongest at one location, and another
place in spring and summer months when the sun is strongest
in a different location.
Choices in Portable Greenhouses
There are many portable greenhouse kits on the market,
or you can build them yourself from scratch. You can also
use them to cover "in ground" traditional gardens
outside when necessary, to protect plants. You can protect
fragile plants both from temperature changes and from harmful
UV rays if necessary with them.
Portable greenhouses can be as inexpensive as a few hundred
dollars, and when rolled up for storage, take up very little
space. To find one, go to your neighborhood nursery, or
look on the Internet to find out what your choices are.
A portable greenhouse both prolongs the outdoor growing
season for most plants, such as tomatoes, and can sometimes
be used year-round for certain types of plants in some locations,
as well.
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