Greenhouse gardening can provide you with fresh vegetables year round. Building or owning a greenhouse doesn’t have to cause a shock to your wallet, or take up a large portion of your yard.
Greenhouses come in many sizes and are available in kits that you can assemble yourself. Manufactures of greenhouses also offer onsite construction, although a little pricey, will save you the time and trouble of putting in all those screws. After they have constructed the green house, all you have to do is add the vegetable plants and flowers.
Every flower and vegetable that you grow normally outside in your garden can be grown in a green house. The key is to optimize the space you have inside the green house. Include layered shelving in the green house. This will allow you to grow tall and short plants without one interfering with the other.
When greenhouse gardening, it is important to remember that without pollination, the vegetables won’t produce. Although most vegetables are self-pollinating, there still needs to be air movement. Using a small fan in the greenhouse, if electricity is available, will aid in the process. If no electricity is available consider leaving the door open for a short time every now and then to allow a breeze to aid in the pollination process.
Using a trellis system that hangs from the ceiling, will allow your vegetables such as tomatoes, squash, or any plant with vines, to be entwined in the trellis, therefore keeping the vegetable off the ground, and it keeps these plants from getting entwined in the other plants, resulting in a difficult harvest.
You can use your greenhouse to get a jumpstart on the next years planting, or by adding heat to your green house, you can grow vegetables and flowers all year long.
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