The Benefits Of A Cold Greenhouse

I have gained so much pleasure from my greenhouse, that I would heartily recommend that every gardener should have one. Don’t be put off by the cost of green house kits or the cost of heating during the winter, since even a cold greenhouse can provide some great benefits. A cold greenhouse is really a technical term. It means that the greenhouse is not heated in winter. It is not cooled in summer, although you will find that shading it and opening windows and vents will help it from becoming to hot.

You can greatly increase the number and type of plants you can grow with the use of a cold greenhouse. Greenhouse gardening need not be expensive. Although it is not heated in winter, it will retain what heat the out of season sunshine provides for longer and will protect plants from cold winds.Hence the cold greenhouse will extend the growing seasin over that you can achieve outside; and you will be able to reliably successfully grow semi tropical fruit and vegetables such as melon and peppers, not to mention tomatoes and cucumbers.

Instead of going out and buying bedding plants, you can easily germinate and raise seeds in the cold greenhouse in large enough numbers that you will have plenty to sell or share with friends and neighbours.

When striking cuttings, the process can be helped somewhat in the cold greenhouse by adding a little botom heat by way of small tray heaters.Though many cuttings are perfectly successful without that adition.

The cold greenhouse can be a great help in germinating seeds such as sweetcorn that need a little heat to germinate. You effectively extend the growing season by getting started with the seed sowing that bit earlier. Don’t forget that, The sugar in sweet corn starts to change to starch as soon as it is harvested, so the sooner it is cooked the better. You can (and if you are a keen gardener probably have) raised seeds on your window sills. Your seedlings become very leggy, and always bending towards the light unless you are continually rotating them. In the greenhouse this problem is solved since the ligh is more even.

So please give it a try. You will get so much more enjoyment from it just as I have, and your gardening abilities will be greatly extended. So build a greenhouse now.