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blownz281
07-16-2012, 01:57 PM
We live in coastal NC zone 8B one mile from the beach. I have a few smaller nanners I want to dig up and protect,and save pups off other cold hardies.

GH will be placed in are patio which gets a fews hrs of direct sunlight. It will be up against the house so blocked from wind,and a 6ft fence solid fence around it. Is the cheap greenhouse at Harbor Freight any good? Not sure it has vents? Looking for something in the $100.00 or so range. Plus something we can take down and put away. But needs to be decent size for some nanners, and pups in pots. Some small cacti and others.

Thanks!

smjmd
07-16-2012, 02:28 PM
I just bought 10 of the smaller ones, witht the green color. They are 6 x 6 x 6 and work awesome. With their 20% disount coupon you can save some money too. I paid $790.00 for them all. I am very, very happy with them and my lazy husband (just kidding) finally has connected them all together to form a long one I guess you would say. So for that price I got a 6 ft. wide and 6 ft tall and 60 ft. long greenhouse for less than a grand, cant complain.

Darkman
07-16-2012, 07:09 PM
Are they made to be joined?

If not what did he have to do to join them and are they still weather tight?

sunfish
07-16-2012, 07:39 PM
Check Craigslist

smjmd
07-16-2012, 08:21 PM
The posts for the frame are metal tubing and they connect to one another real easy. They are water tight too and dont leak. All we did is leave the back wall and the door wall off of all the greenhouses from the second one to the last (harder to explain than to do :) But, the only part that sucks with them is the frame on the ground has tabs that you put stakes in to hold it down to the ground. Well, the holes where the stakes go through are not much bigger than a coat hanger would be. The stakes they give you are cheap too and bend if you take them out more than once. We just bought a bunch of extra tent stakes and anchored it down that way. We will see how well it works when we get another windy day I guess. But, not much to complain about for that kind of a price. If you want I can try to post a picture of one soon.

Arachnotron
07-17-2012, 11:35 AM
My parents have a few of the harbor freight greenhouses. Good deal for the price. They are on cinderblocks for extra height.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49746 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49746&ppuser=4196)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49747 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49747&ppuser=4196)

Two were rebuilt after the hurricane in 2008.

blownz281
07-17-2012, 01:34 PM
Thanks for the replies. Keep them coming!

blownz281
07-27-2012, 03:08 PM
Our house does have a storage closet,that I keep the lawn mower and a bunch of other stuff in. It should stay kinda warm in the winter. Its up against our bathroom on the back of the house.

I have a extra 36" long T5 lighting hood from my reef tank. I have two 39watt T5 10,000k maybe 12k but I think 10k bulbs. Now if I hung the fixture up and only ran one bulb would that keep my nanners and pups happy? I would run it on a timer. Lets say 8hrs a day?

Then buy a thermostated heater that came on when it got down to 40 degrees in the closet. How does this sound instead of spending acouple hundred bucks on a greenhouse. Not sure how much that would change the electric bill compared to spending money on a GH and just having a heater hooked up with free light?

Scuba_Dave
07-27-2012, 07:16 PM
I built my own against the back of the house, facing South
Total cost was maybe $100 or so....$75 of which was the jalousie windows
I use it to get an early start & then move stuff to the larger gardens

Link to thread:
http://www.bananas.org/f313/diy-greenhouse-30-maybe-7923.html#post200460

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y105/Daveywb/Plants/GH09web.jpg