Greenhouses 🌴

[ZPalms]

I've been looking to get a good sturdy greenhouses of a decent size for seedlings or whatever. I've looked all over and I'm unsure where to find a good tried-and-true greenhouse that won't fly away or start falling apart within 2 years. Hoping anyone who lives in a windy area like me could give me a recommendation!

I've seen the one from Harbor Freight, but I've seen reviews saying it's weak. Of course, I could anchor it myself, but I'm not very handy like that and wouldn't even know where to start. I've also seen that the panels start to break within a year.

[happypalms]

Build one yourself. A very easy one is made out of poly pipe. Place at least 6 star pickets driven into the ground squared up  ( used to build fences) get poly pipe and make hoops with them sliding them over the star pickets, run wires along them. Then throw over your shade cloth and bury it on one side, stretch it tight and bury the other side, overlap your joins there easy to build. If you can weld even better iam currently building another greenhouse now it’s easy to do. The same as in the photos only poly pipe is used instead of steel, there quite strong and look good you can brace it with wire anchors if your worried about it blowing away but that won’t happen. 

[amh]

2 hours ago, ZPalms said:

I've been looking to get a good sturdy greenhouses of a decent size for seedlings or whatever. I've looked all over and I'm unsure where to find a good tried-and-true greenhouse that won't fly away or start falling apart within 2 years. Hoping anyone who lives in a windy area like me could give me a recommendation!

I've seen the one from Harbor Freight, but I've seen reviews saying it's weak. Of course, I could anchor it myself, but I'm not very handy like that and wouldn't even know where to start. I've also seen that the panels start to break within a year.

Do you have a wind protected area? How big of a greenhouse? Type?

I've been using a hobby type for a few years now that has held up well, but I would recommend not anchoring any non-rigid greenhouse to the ground. I had a very nice geodesic greenhouse completely flattened by a windstorm.

[JohnAndSancho]

@happypalms I need a cat proof design with wifi and a TV and a spot for Sancho to nap 

[amh]

My 11'X10' hobby greenhouse. I've had this greenhouse for almost 4 years and with only a ring of 1 gallon water jugs, the temperatures stay warm enough to keep retama evergreen when the outside temperatures are single digit.  There is no height issues if you are below 6'4".

Packed to the gills.

 

[Harry’s Palms]

I built my own about 30 years ago at my old house . I found a book at a thrift store , an old Sunset book about building greenhouses with plans . At that time there was a big box store that was changing vendors and I scored a bunch of corrugated greenhouse panels for a very reduced price . I used redwood 4x4 for the sills and about 4-6 inches of pea gravel for the floor. It was a gambrel roof design . The plans in the book were easy to follow , step by step. I scaled it to 12’x12’  with the ceiling about 12’ tall in the centers . The panels were slightly tinted for UV reduction and I hung shade cloth in sections on the inside . It was great , wind never phased it and I grew so much stuff in there . I hated to leave it behind . I have no room here or I would build another one , it is a game changer! Harry

[ZPalms]

The spot that I've choose is sorta protected but I definitely don't have any skill to build my own greenhouse, I had a hobby greenhouse that the wind took and threw across the yard a week after I put it up but it wasn't in the spot I have for a new one and bent the whole frame and thankfully a fence was up to protect my sabal at the time because it would of trampled everything. 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, ZPalms said:

The spot that I've choose is sorta protected but I definitely don't have any skill to build my own greenhouse, I had a hobby greenhouse that the wind took and threw across the yard a week after I put it up but it wasn't in the spot I have for a new one and bent the whole frame and thankfully a fence was up to protect my sabal at the time because it would of trampled everything. 

Yes you do have the skills to learn how to build. Iam not a computer person either but iam learning. It’s amazing what we can do when we say we can do it. There are many books and enough information on the good old internet. Just apply yourself to the situation and be confident. We all have a rocket scientist in us, some choose to do so and others choose not too build rocket ship’s instead building greenhouses. To build the one described is very simple you really don t even néed a tape measure!

[amh]

3 hours ago, ZPalms said:

The spot that I've choose is sorta protected but I definitely don't have any skill to build my own greenhouse, I had a hobby greenhouse that the wind took and threw across the yard a week after I put it up but it wasn't in the spot I have for a new one and bent the whole frame and thankfully a fence was up to protect my sabal at the time because it would of trampled everything. 

I purposely located mine in a forested area that has protection from winds and so far, it has only been blown over once, but survived. If you have access to a truck or hatchback with fold-down seats, make your own with a wooden frame.

[ZPalms]

I guess will see what happens, building from scratch is just BLEHHHHHHH, I don't even know what I need or how to do anything. Just want a good kit 😂