Temp Greenhouse required

worded

We are renting a place and really want a green house but not a permanent structure. I have a trailor hitch and trailor so want to be able to move the puppy when we do.

Does a green house have to have a concrete or cement base to be at all effective? Is it necessary to use paving slabs?

Will a plastic tubular one be as good as glass?

The Sweeper

Hey OP

What you're really trying to achieve with a greenhouse is shelter from the elements, enhanced warmth during the day and protection from low temperatures at night. Unless you're growing something that needs climate control, any structure that meets the above criteria will work.

As opposed to making a permanent structure that will have to be moved as a single piece, would you consider putting up something that can be easily dismantled when you move? I saw a temp greenhouse on the internet recently, damned if I can remember the link though - a handy chap had used timber, pipes, shade cloth and polythene. He made a square frame to about five feet from timber, and used bendable pipes to create three archs, for front, middle and back of his structure for the roof, taking the height of the structure past six feet so he could get into it without stooping.

He fixed polythene over the outside of the structure, and kept a piece of shade cloth that could be unrolled over it if the sun was too intense. His 'door' was just another flap of shadecloth. He positioned his directly over a flowerbed where he wanted seedlings to have a fighting chance to get well established, the literally lifted it off the bed when they were well underway.

If you want an effective temporary floor in your greenhouse, try sand or gravel. Sand would be great - doesn't freeze, doesn't get really cold, will absorb heat during the day and reflect it back at night.

Nonmonotonic

Good advice, Minesajackdaniels. I would go the same route and build a temporary house rather than try moving a permanent one ( glass and trailers are not a good combination). There must be plenty of websites with plans of a combination of plastic pipes, timber and polythene. Commercial guys use tunnels so they are pretty solid (expensive ones).

worded

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