Need help choosing greenhouse location

Looks like it'll be nice for a little bit.

So do you think a 6 x 8 is big enough? that is just what I have but have not decided that it is big enough to use?

I don't grow that much and don't have tons of pond plants, so for now, it should have room to spare. Even if I stick in a 35gal bin of water to be a heaksink and waterer source.

Remembered that there were some mites on the pond plants recently, so those won't go in the GH.

I can see my ponies!

Other window looking in, grey box is the porch thermometer.

Yea, I had 2 corn plants growing in the laundryroom and some Mulberry seedlings that got beat up by my cat...The Sago palm is in the GH because it's deadly to cats and dogs and the cat likes to bother plants and knock them down.

The veggie seedlings' side!

Heater and water bin visible in this pic.

looks to be a very workable setup you have

PennyJo said:

So do you think a 6 x 8 is big enough? that is just what I have but have not decided that it is big enough to use?

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My first backyard greenhouse was, I believe, 5' by 10'. It was a lean-to against the southside of the garage at a different home. I wanted a bigger greenhouse at my new home so I built a 20' wall. However, I'd built the lean-to with bolts so that the walls holding the storm windows and door could be pulled apart and with the fiberglass roof be moved. I set it against that longer wall for the first couple of years.

The walls below the windows was framed and insulated so only the bench in there had sunlight and I could hang a few pots from the rafters.

It was great for flats of annuals for the garden. With 72 or 48 plants per flat and room for 10 or 12 flats: That gave me 500 to 700 plants. One plant per square foot of garden space ... an instant small garden!

Steve

Hahaha, I'm such an idiot!

I was wondering why the GH temp was going down, 44.

I went out to check on the flock and decided to check the GH after.

Window open!!! Duh!!

It had gotten to 102 during the day when I was out there moving in plants. So I started opening windows until the temp went down. 3 opened.

I know I closed two, because I chatted to the ducks in between closing them and then locked up the birds.

Whoopsies.

I have done things like that!

But, realize that there are "best practices!"

The "right" temperatures varies by crop and it's impossible for most gardeners with a desire to grow most everything to do it "right." Did you know that there are best practices for an alpine greenhouse? I know absolutely nothing about it .

Anyway, I just follow what we did at the rose greenhouse where I worked. Roses are temperate climate plants - figure it's good for a ballpark. I had some nice tomato plants in there . We would go with 60°f at night and 64° during days. Of course, on sunny days, it would warm up! We tried to keep thing comfortable for the plants and us ... temperate dwellers. No blasts of 40° air! At 85° on summer days we were taking serious measures to cool things down and would throw water on everything.

Steve

Guess where I am sitting the garden fence goes in today our very nice neighbor that is getting eggs
from us now said she has a greenhouse she wants to give me, she bought it and doesn't want to put up
I had bought one from Harbor freight it is 6 x 8 semi rigid plastic sheeting we layed 4 x 4 as a base for
it. There are many pieces or do I really mess with the fence lines, guess I need to find out the size she
has .