When is it to late to start a greenhouse or start growing in your greenhouse?
I am doing a project which I have procrastinated and it’s fall in Seattle and I am wondering if it to late to start this project
It’s never too late to start a greenhouse. I too am from the Seattle area so I’m familiar with the climate. Are you building from scratch, or ordering one? Do you plan to heat it or use it as a cold frame? Crops differ depending on your intentions. You could use it to overwinter tender plants, or you could keep it heated and grow things like citrus and other tropical specimens, or you could keep it heated just enough to keep your plants and containers from freezing when that ice and snow sneak up on us. Again, it’s never too late. If you get it built over the winter, February and March are great months to start your next summer’s annuals and flowers.
I worked at a greenhouse/nursery in Edgewood for years and I find I miss it now that I’m not there.
Happy Growing!
September 27th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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September 27th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
It’s never too late to start a greenhouse. I too am from the Seattle area so I’m familiar with the climate. Are you building from scratch, or ordering one? Do you plan to heat it or use it as a cold frame? Crops differ depending on your intentions. You could use it to overwinter tender plants, or you could keep it heated and grow things like citrus and other tropical specimens, or you could keep it heated just enough to keep your plants and containers from freezing when that ice and snow sneak up on us. Again, it’s never too late. If you get it built over the winter, February and March are great months to start your next summer’s annuals and flowers.
I worked at a greenhouse/nursery in Edgewood for years and I find I miss it now that I’m not there.
Happy Growing!
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September 27th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I guess you could build one at any time. If you built one right now you could put patio pots etc in it, save them from the worst of winter. But stuff won’t really grow because daylight is getting less and less.
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September 27th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
It never is except when you live in a very very cold polar of arctic place.
Stuff grows year round and nature is not dead in the winter.
But generally speaking you should start planting things in early spring before you have more and more sun-hours making nature come alive more and more until late fall.Best thing is to get ready for the next season and do your research/reading about what to plant.Some vegetables will grow year round if it is not too cold or dark; mustard seeds and new-zealand- salad, beets.
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November 14th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Very true, although people think that things are “dead” in winter they aren’t