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. Also, other than by using shading and ventilation it is not artificially cooled in the high summer.
A cold greenhouse will save you money and enlarge the number of plants that you can grow successfully. Greenhouse gardening need not be expensive. Even without the use of artificial heating it will protect tender plants from the wind and you can extend the growing season because of the heat that is stored from the early and late summer sunshine.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, As every gardener knows,sweet corn cooked within minutes of harvesting, tastes so much better than those bought fresh or frozen. The traditional and established way of raising early seeds on the windosill has some significant drawbacks. 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 if you haven’t tried a Greenhouse, it will pay its own way in a short time and will increase your sense of satisfaction and accomplishment in gardening. So build a greenhouse now.
