The Benefits Of A Cold Greenhouse
If, as a gardener,you have never owned or used a Greenhouse, I would recomend that you do so. Don’t be put off by the cost of green house kits or the cost of heating during the winter, since even a cold greenhouse can provide some great benefits. A cold greenhouse is really a technical term. It means that the greenhouse is not heated in winter. It is not cooled in summer, although you will find that shading it and opening windows and vents will help it from becoming to hot.
A cold greenhouse will save you money and enlarge the number of plants that you can grow successfully. Greenhouse gardening need not be expensive. Although it is not heated in winter, it will retain what heat the out of season sunshine provides for longer and will protect plants from cold winds.Hence the cold greenhouse will extend the growing seasin over that you can achieve outside; You can also grow plants for which the normal outdoor season is not long enough, such as melons and peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Instead of going out and buying bedding plants, you can easily germinate and raise seeds in the cold greenhouse in large enough numbers that you will have plenty to sell or share with friends and neighbours.
Taking cuttings and raising them is often easier in the greenhouse, although many cuttings are better raised outdors in shaltered areas, as greenhouses do tend to become rather warm in the summer.
Sweet corn seed needs warmth to germinate (as do many other seed including tomatoes) so sowing them in a cold greenhouse helps no end. By getting an early start in the greenhouse you effectively extend the growing season. And remember, The sugar in sweet corn starts to change to starch as soon as it is harvested, so the sooner it is cooked the better. The traditional and established way of raising early seeds on the windosill has some significant drawbacks. The problem is that the plants become impossibly ‘leggy’ before you are ready to put them outside. In the greenhouse this problem is solved since the ligh is more even.
So please give it a try. You will get so much more enjoyment from it just as I have, and your gardening abilities will be greatly extended. So build a greenhouse now.
