Show me your Greenhouse!

[Mvan42]

I just bought a 6x8ft Greenhouse from harbor freight. We have to level a area out to put it. But right now I have a small 4x6 that I use got it from tractor supply it has plastic cover similar to a tarp.

Show me your shelving? I need ideas
How do you heat it? I am currently using Terra cotta pots and candles.

And any other ideas.. I need ideas on how to set up this bigger Greenhouse.. thanks.. I will post pictures of my smaller later.

This is the one I bought.

 

[Mvan42]

Ok so here is the one I have right now.

Here is how I am heating it. Terra cotta pots and candles.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I just bought a 6x8ft Greenhouse from harbor freight. We have to level a area out to put it. But right now I have a small 4x6 that I use got it from tractor supply it has plastic cover similar to a tarp.

Show me your shelving? I need ideas
How do you heat it? I am currently using Terra cotta pots and candles.

And any other ideas.. I need ideas on how to set up this bigger Greenhouse.. thanks.. I will post pictures of my smaller later.

This is the one I bought.
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I have the same one.

I will get pics tomorrow. It needs a bit of straightening up.

I will be sure to include info on how we beefed it up. We have had 30" of heavy wet snow and 80 mph winds...not at the same time thank goodness. No collapse and only one panel blown loose. The panel did not take flight thankfully.

 

[littledog]

I have the same Harbor Freight one as well. I built a level floor for it, out of deck blocks, 4"x6" frame and 1"x4" floor boards. Dumb me, I thought it would be good to leave small spaces between the floor boards, so I could sweep dirt out easily - but all the spaces did was allow weeds to find a place to grow up in between them.
Oh well, it's still a good greenhouse, I just cut the weeds off at floor level.
For the shelves, I didn't design much - I insulated the north side with styrofoam panels covered with aluminum foil, made a shelf out of my previous cheapo plastic greenhouse parts, plus freebie curb-alert end tables.

 

[Mvan42]

I have the same one.

I will get pics tomorrow. It needs a bit of straightening up.

I will be sure to include info on how we beefed it up. We have had 30" of heavy wet snow and 80 mph winds...not at the same time thank goodness. No collapse and only one panel blown loose. The panel did not take flight thankfully.

We often get feer of snow and high winds also. Snow the same or even more than 30", winds mostly less than you get. I also plan on keeping it heated in the winter I like the idea of tomatoes fresh ones in the winter.

Have either of you tried heating it in the winter? If so is it easy or hard to keep it at a good temperature?

 

[21hens-incharge]

We often get feer of snow and high winds also. Snow the same or even more than 30", winds mostly less than you get. I also plan on keeping it heated in the winter I like the idea of tomatoes fresh ones in the winter.

Have either of you tried heating it in the winter? If so is it easy or hard to keep it at a good temperature?

I haven't tried heating it in winter. I have found on cold winter days that are still sunny the temp will climb a lot. I have seen it under 30° outside and over 80 in the greenhouse.
I think regulating the temp would be far more work than it's worth. Growing the veggies takes more hours of proper light as well as more stable temps than I think I could provide in it in winter.

 

[cmom]

Here are a few pictures of our little greenhouse and some others.

 

[Mvan42]

Finished my Greenhouse and moved my plants into it.

How do you all keep a bigger Greenhouse heated. Right now I have candles/Terra cotta pots over them and at night an electric heater just because it has been in the lower 30s and I don't want anything to freeze.

 

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

^^^wow!
got my wife's set up a few weekends ago, still too soggy to put it by the garden, so it’s sitting on the trailer in the driveway. We found the wire shelving from Home Depot worked well, and was cost effective.... also we already had it.
she has just a few things going right now. I have an LP heater I intend to install in it along with a ventilation fan all thermostatically controlled. For this spring we have just been carrying plants inside at night. Hopefully next year we will have enough started to sell some with our duck eggs.

 

[Sally PB]

My husband built our greenhouse. This last winter was the second winter; it was very mild, and I was able to keep spinach and lettuce all winter long. However, the spinach didn't do diddly squat. I got one small picking. And it bolted as soon as it started to get warm.

I'm slowly burying the foundation with dirt to insulate the ground in there. I'd like to think that my "Big Dirt Project," as I call it, helped with keeping the temps inside warm enough for growing greens. We did have a couple nights of below zero temps, and the lettuce and spinach made it through.

Right now, I don't have any shelves. All the growing is in big tubs of dirt. It's "modular" that way, so I can figure out what works better for a layout.