{"id":860,"date":"2011-03-01T17:39:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/garden-greenhouse-types-made-easy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:39:44","slug":"garden-greenhouse-types-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/garden-greenhouse-types-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Greenhouse Types Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A plethora of greenhouse types can be had to suit your individual requirements and particular budget needs. Indeed, you can get them all the way from tiny window greenhouse units to impressively large free standing units in the garden, your options are plentiful. If larger areas are an option to use then you can add on to your greenhouse as you fill it up over time.<\/p>\n

A homemade garden greenhouse<\/a> can be an attached design which uses a wall of your home to connect to, or you can set up a detached type of greenhouse that is located somewhere in the garden,<\/p>\n

Greenhouses can be of several different types as determined by the roof line, the existence or absence of side walls, as well the kind of foundation employed. A bird’s eye view of these different types of greenhouses would <\/p>\n

There are basically three categories of greenhouse type<\/a>: Attached, Ridge or furrow and Detached. In this article I will talk mainly about attached and ridge types.<\/p>\n

Lean-To or Attached<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the amount of area you have is at a premium the lean-to is a solid option. A lean-to’s roof is attached to the side of the home or garage via the ridge line and has doorway built in so that you can travel freely between the two. As they are connected to the main structure of the home, they have easy access to electricity, water and heat as well.<\/p>\n

The height of the lean-to will necessarily be limited by the wall of the home that it is connected to. Also, the connecting wall will lessen the amount of sunlight available.. It’s also important to remember to keep a watchful on your lean-to during the winter time to make certain accumulated snow doesn’t slide off the roof of your home and lead to damaging effects on the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

Accessibility, lower cost and easy heating are the main plus points of the lean-to greenhouse.<\/p>\n

The Ridge Roof Greenhouse:<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are joined by a shared gutter only at the bottom edges or eaves of the roof. This allows increased efficiency in terms of the amount of sunlight that is able to enter. The roof design of these structures will be either curved or gabled.<\/p>\n

Even-span Greenhouses<\/strong><\/p>\n

An even-span (or free standing) house is a wonderful design style that can be set up as an attached or detached structure . If you decide to set up an even-span design that’s joined to your home or other structure it will usually be through one of the gable ends of the greenhouse. These greenhouses are best suited for being expanded later on if you find your self running out of room in the future. <\/p>\n

It has the capacity to accommodate two or three benches for crop production and beats the lean-to in availability of usable space and better shape and size to maintain optimum temperature and ventilation. Free standing greenhouses like this are usually best when they stay within dimensions between 10×8 to 12×15. Bigger or smaller than that and it starts getting a bit tricky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A plethora of greenhouse types can be had to suit your individual requirements and particular budget needs. Indeed, you can get them all the way from tiny window greenhouse units to impressively large free standing units in the garden, your options are plentiful. If larger areas are an option to use then you can add on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,1,10,13,5,8,4,12,15,3,9,6,11],"tags":[1155,1197,1060,1196],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-annuals","category-container-gardening-ideas","category-container-gardening-shade","category-container-gardening-soil","category-container-gardening-tomatoes","category-container-herb-garden","category-container-vegetable-gardening","category-fall-container-gardening","category-flower-container-gardening","category-fruit-container-gardening","category-organic-container-gardening","category-patio-container-gardening","category-winter-container-gardening","tag-garden-greenhouse","tag-greenhouse-plans","tag-greenhouse-types","tag-types-of-greenhouses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}