Part 2: Finding a Used Greenhouse for Your Garden

March 4th, 2010

So how would you go about getting one of these things installed? You could buy a nice new greenhouse and design it yourself, however that can be very expensive. A normal greenhouse price for an average sized 10×14 is around 5500 dollars to install it, not including all the heating and cooling things you will need. Now that would be for a brand new greenhouse that you basically built yourself. The other option would be to buy a used greenhouse, now you’re out buying a greenhouse for probably two main reasons, save the environment and save money. Buying a greenhouse would cover both of those reasons, you’re buying something that is recycled and you’re saving about one or two thousand dollars. Getting a used greenhouse however is a little bit more difficult than getting a brand new one. When going to buy a new greenhouse you will have to answer a couple of questions before you go off and buy one, questions like, does it rain a lot where you live? How hot does it get where you live?Do you plan on planting just plants or vegetables or both? Now these are all Read the rest of this entry »

Part 1: Used Greenhouses

February 18th, 2010

In this age where it seems that everyone is “going green” it seems that being eco friendly is the new thing. Another thing that is the thing to do nowadays is to find ways to save money. Perhaps the best way to do both of these at the time is to buy and install a greenhouse. Basically killing two birds with one stone, you’ll be doing something that is eco friendly and you will definitely save a lot of money on vegetables. So what is a greenhouse? I’m sure you’ve seen one before, but then again there not a very common thing to have in areas where there aren’t big backyards.

A greenhouse is a very big garage basically made entirely out of special glass, or special windows. What a greenhouse does is keep everything within the contents of the house nice and warm during the winter months and gives it the proper amount of sunlight during the summer months. A greenhouse lets that heat from the sun inside the structure but it traps the heat and doesn’t let get out therefore keeping all that hot air inside the structure keeping it nice and warm for the plants inside.

There are two types of greenhouses. Read the rest of this entry »