My husband bought me this green house and set it up over the weekend. This is the first green house I've owned. Right now I winterize my plants in my garage. I am in zone 7B. Do you think I can move the tender plants (hibiscus, tuber rose etc) to the green house? It is not insulated and of course doesn't have any heat. How do you use the green house? ( photo / image / picture from Tina's Garden )
I have a much smaller one in the unheated backroom, don't have that many plants that I overwinter so it doesn't need to be very large. And right now I have a few containers with seeds starting in them. I have a small clamp-on light fixture that I turn on for warmth in there during the coldest days and nights and when the temps were down in the 10-32 degree range back in January I covered the whole thing up with a couple of old sheets to keep the warmth in.
Tina, that is a fine, considerate husband you have! For heating, a couple of 100 watt bulbs running off an extension cord (the rated for outdoors kind) would keep your greenhouse warm. There are really cheap thermometers that you could hang in the greenhouse to see the normal, no heat temperatures, and then what the temps would be with the two 100 watt bulbs. Then you could judge whether your tenders would like it there. I'd use that greenhouse to start seeds, get houseplants acclimated to the outdoors, and just as a place to go and breathe in the smell of damp earth (beats the heck out of perfumes!).
