If you love organic fruits and vegetables, why not kick up your gardening efforts a notch and build your own greenhouse?
These days growing your own produce has so many health benefits and financial benefits. Not only can you grow them organically but you know exactly what goes into them enabling everything you grow to be truly pesticide and genetically modified free.
The financial savings can also add up and there’s nothing that beats the convenience or the satisfaction of picking your own home grown produce, nothing tastes better either. You just have to compare your own homegrown veggies to the store bought variety to know the difference.
The main advantage that a greenhouse has over a garden is that it is not limited by the weather conditions, this means that you can grow all kinds of produce regardless of the season, no matter what the weather outside is doing. You, in essence are creating an artificial environment where you determine the optimum conditions, a microclimate for growing the things you want and because your produce is in a contained system you deter, insect and rodent damage.
If you would like to build your own greenhouse, you don’t have to majorly overhaul your lifestyle to accomplish it or go to extremes and go all “Green Acres”.
To build your own greenhouse does have a few requirements but nothing that will hinder you from building one of your own, here are just a couple of things you might want to know:
How much time is required to build your own greenhouse?
Well, it’s purely an objective thing. Just how much time do you want to dedicate to build your own greenhouse? Only you know your time restrictions.
What is the main purpose to build your own greenhouse?, as this will determine the time investment, for example is it for a hobby or do you plan to use it to fully replace your store bought produce with? The size of your greenhouse will also determine your time requirements, as obviously the bigger and more intricate the greenhouse, the more time needed.
How big should your greenhouse be?
This depends on how big you want it to be and what your budget restrictions are, you’re limited only by the available space that you have and how much you’re willing to spend.
How much should building your own greenhouse cost?
Again, this depends upon your budget however can built anywhere from near free by using recycled materials all the way up to $40,000 to $50,000 using a professional architect and builder to construct one for you. Price is subjective, plants don’t care how much you spend and they will grow equally well in a $200 greenhouse as a $50,000 one.
Another thing that will determine the size when you build your own greenhouse is the area you need to heat and irrigate should you select this option, obviously the bigger the area the most expense associated with it.
If you want to dip your toe into building your own greenhouse then why not create a smaller 8 by 10 feet version first to get a feel for it? If it’s something that agrees with you, upsize it. The only disadvantage of smaller greenhouses is their inability to effectively moderate temperatures, this means that without proper ventilation your greenhouse could easily overheat or overcool.
What types of materials to use?
When it comes time to build your own greenhouse you can either do it the old fashioned way with a little elbow grease and a keen attitude or you can go with the next popular choice, the readymade greenhouse kit. These range in price from $200 all the way up to $20,000 and can be assembled within a few days for the simpler models. The more expensive greenhouses generally tend to be sturdier and better insulated with their double and even sometimes triple glazing pane glass. It really is a case of you get what you pay for, that’s not to say you won’t get a decent product on the more modest end of the scale, it all depends upon your budget.
So there you have it, no matter what your financial state, you can still build your own greenhouse and enjoy out of season produce all year long.
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