Amazon has Miracle-Gro 4'8" x 29" x 6'5" All-Season Mini Walk-in Greenhouse w/ 4 Wire Shelves (70526) for $33. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+.
Home Depot has Miracle-Gro 4'8" x 29" x 6'5" All-Season Mini Walk-in Greenhouse w/ 4 Wire Shelves (70526) for $33. Shipping is free.
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4'8" x 29" x 6'5" unit is ideal for indoor or outdoor use to start seedlings early or extend your growing season and includes 4 removable sturdy wire mesh shelves to maximize space
Made of high-grade 5/8" tubular steel with a premium powder coat finish that resists chipping, peeling, rust, and corrosion for long-lasting use
Plants receive a maximum amount of light even in cooler months, and the double-zipper door allows for easy access to plants
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Amazon has Miracle-Gro 4'8" x 29" x 6'5" All-Season Mini Walk-in Greenhouse w/ 4 Wire Shelves (70526) for $33. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+.
Home Depot has Miracle-Gro 4'8" x 29" x 6'5" All-Season Mini Walk-in Greenhouse w/ 4 Wire Shelves (70526) for $33. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter TattyBear for finding this deal.
Features:
4'8" x 29" x 6'5" unit is ideal for indoor or outdoor use to start seedlings early or extend your growing season and includes 4 removable sturdy wire mesh shelves to maximize space
Made of high-grade 5/8" tubular steel with a premium powder coat finish that resists chipping, peeling, rust, and corrosion for long-lasting use
Plants receive a maximum amount of light even in cooler months, and the double-zipper door allows for easy access to plants
I've got this or one just like it. I've had it for two seasons. I use it in December/January to start tomatoes and peppers and such for the spring garden. I set it up on a south facing deck against my house. It has held up well, but is very light weight, and somewhat flimsy, but fine for what it is. It will blow away and must be weighted down. I lay boards across the bottom and fill a small trash can with water. In that, I put an aquarium heater, that keeps it weighted down and the warm water provides moist air to seedlings. If you have a sunny 50 degree winter day, like we often do in Northwest Florida, it can overheat. I've cooked seedlings because I forgot to open it up, and the inside temps got to over 100 degrees. I start putting tomatoes in the ground around February and then I just use it to store seedlings at night, until danger of frost has passed.
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I've got this or one just like it. I've had it for two seasons. I use it in December/January to start tomatoes and peppers and such for the spring garden. I set it up on a south facing deck against my house. It has held up well, but is very light weight, and somewhat flimsy, but fine for what it is. It will blow away and must be weighted down. I lay boards across the bottom and fill a small trash can with water. In that, I put an aquarium heater, that keeps it weighted down and the warm water provides moist air to seedlings. If you have a sunny 50 degree winter day, like we often do in Northwest Florida, it can overheat. I've cooked seedlings because I forgot to open it up, and the inside temps got to over 100 degrees. I start putting tomatoes in the ground around February and then I just use it to store seedlings at night, until danger of frost has passed.
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I've got this or one just like it. I've had it for two seasons. I use it in December/January to start tomatoes and peppers and such for the spring garden. I set it up on a south facing deck against my house. It has held up well, but is very light weight, and somewhat flimsy, but fine for what it is. It will blow away and must be weighted down. I lay boards across the bottom and fill a small trash can with water. In that, I put an aquarium heater, that keeps it weighted down and the warm water provides moist air to seedlings. If you have a sunny 50 degree winter day, like we often do in Northwest Florida, it can overheat. I've cooked seedlings because I forgot to open it up, and the inside temps got to over 100 degrees. I start putting tomatoes in the ground around February and then I just use it to store seedlings at night, until danger of frost has passed.
Does this have any practical purpose in the Northeast? (Boston area)
Tropical plants that love moisture. Just being outside might not be enough or if you can't water them often enough. My wife has a few tropicals and they love it outside in the summer but need to be watered a lot. I imagine this would help them thrive more but we live in an apartment currently so we don't have that choice. I think that will be ineffective in winter here, you'd have to heat it quite a bit and the cost then probably outweighs the benfits.
Does this have any practical purpose in the Northeast? (Boston area)
No! It's so thin that on cold nights the temp will be what it is outside. Even using it in early spring is pointless with the winds you'll be constantly keeping an eye on it to blow away and the week early you might be able to put out stuff in it won't be worth the hassle.
Does this have any practical purpose in the Northeast? (Boston area)
Why not? I buy tomato seedlings in McCue's Garden Center in Billerica in April and let them mature for a month in a greenhouse like this before replanting. You can start your seeds as well.
You will need to put it away for the winter though.
The yard guys at my townhome always blow moldy grass clippings all over my planter garden, every year. I'm hoping to use this next year to keep my plants from getting infected, ruining my harvest. This year I lost almost all of my tomatoes and a lot of my cucumbers.
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I live in the dfw area and tried this a couple of years ago to keep some plants and citrus trees alive during the winter. I was planning on using it as a temporary green house and take it down and store it in the spring. Long story short, it failed.
I had a bigger one and it did a good job with heating up during the daytime but it did not hold any heat at night. I did not want to put a space heater in it so I tried milk jugs that were filled with water and painted black and five gal. buckets of hot water to try to keep heat in it at night. I also lined the roof and sides with bubble wrap to help insulate it. My plants died from using it without a heater. When I took it apart in the spring, all of the thin metal poles had surface rust, some started rusting through.
I've got this or one just like it. I've had it for two seasons. I use it in December/January to start tomatoes and peppers and such for the spring garden. I set it up on a south facing deck against my house. It has held up well, but is very light weight, and somewhat flimsy, but fine for what it is. It will blow away and must be weighted down. I lay boards across the bottom and fill a small trash can with water. In that, I put an aquarium heater, that keeps it weighted down and the warm water provides moist air to seedlings. If you have a sunny 50 degree winter day, like we often do in Northwest Florida, it can overheat. I've cooked seedlings because I forgot to open it up, and the inside temps got to over 100 degrees. I start putting tomatoes in the ground around February and then I just use it to store seedlings at night, until danger of frost has passed.
You probably won't get year round use unless you heat it and that would be expensive. But starting the Spring early and going later in the Fall? Worth a shot. It'll still need heat but less so.
You probably won't get year round use unless you heat it and that would be expensive. But starting the Spring early and going later in the Fall? Worth a shot. It'll still need heat but less so.
I only use mine for seed starting in January through early spring. Once we hit April, in my area, the greenhouse is too hot for most seeds. After April, I'm trying to keep seedlings cool to get good germination. From what I understand, most veggies will germinate best with a soil temp around 75. I've never tried to take the plastic off and put a shade cloth over the frame, but that might work when it's hot and seed trays need to be cooler.
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You will need to put it away for the winter though.
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I had a bigger one and it did a good job with heating up during the daytime but it did not hold any heat at night. I did not want to put a space heater in it so I tried milk jugs that were filled with water and painted black and five gal. buckets of hot water to try to keep heat in it at night. I also lined the roof and sides with bubble wrap to help insulate it. My plants died from using it without a heater. When I took it apart in the spring, all of the thin metal poles had surface rust, some started rusting through.
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