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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: Hector on June 25, 2009, 00:05:09

Title: width?
Post by: Hector on June 25, 2009, 00:05:09

Is there an advantage to wider greenhouses? ie a 8 foot and a half versus 6 foot?

Title: Re: width?
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on June 25, 2009, 00:22:15

Hi Hector,

If you have the option, I would go for the larger one.

I'm lucky to have both a 6 x 8 and an 8 x 10 (the latter under the overhang of an oak tree) but the larger one, in my experience seems to give a better return, pro rata growing space, than the smaller one (which I now treat more as a potting shed and a drying area).

Linda

Title: Re: width?
Post by: saddad on June 25, 2009, 07:41:31

Also at 6' the higher eaves are a real bonus...  :)

Title: Re: width?
Post by: shirlton on June 25, 2009, 08:43:14

bigger the better ;D

Title: Re: width?
Post by: Plot69 on June 25, 2009, 09:25:47

The larger the area, the less the temperature fluctuates.

Title: Re: width?
Post by: saddad on June 25, 2009, 10:26:15

That's very noticeable in the big school's greenhouse compared with my 8x6's.
 :)

Title: Re: width?
Post by: Hector on June 25, 2009, 18:18:56

Id wondered if a wide bed was less flexible than a long thinner greenhouse?

Title: Re: width?
Post by: Plot69 on June 25, 2009, 18:46:29

Just put a wider path up the middle  ::)

Title: Re: width?
Post by: Hector on June 25, 2009, 21:26:34

Quote from: Plot69 on June 25, 2009, 18:46:29

Just put a wider path up the middle  ::)

Your a genius  ;)