Greenhouse: Thinking about a Rion?, 1 by greenhouse_gal

greenhouse_gal wrote:
Here's a photo showing the location of mine. I have an 8x8' model which we put up several years ago. A bit of shade and shelter isn't at all a bad thing for a greenhouse; otherwise it gets awfully hot in there in the summer. But at that point I'm just using mine for storage of tools, so it doesn't matter. Ours has withstood some very strong winds; I think they're pretty sturdy.

We used Pennsylvania blue stone for the floor of our greenhouse because we didn't want water to pool there, and my husband and son built two-tiered shelves on a wood frame with 1/2 " hardware cloth stretched over it, to provide a work area and storage space on both sides of the greenhouse, and we have a wooden potting table at the far end. We also have an electrical outlet which can run a small fan, but the structure doesn't seem tight enough to hold a lot of heat against a cold night.

I mostly use mine for seed-starting, although I do the first leg of it in the house and put them out in the greenhouse only when they have some true leaves and can stand more variation in temperatures. The plants stay in the greenhouse and are often repotted at least once until they're big enough to go into the garden and the weather is mild enough not to kill them.