ThereÕs Nothing New About Used Greenhouses

Used greenhouses are about as common as cow pies in a corn field. Farmers and gardeners give up their greenhouses for many reasons. They outgrow them. They move and the greenhouse doesn’t. Or they just plumb go out of business, retiring most of the time. So, this leaves plenty of low-mileage greenhouses for you to choose from in the used greenhouse market.

Aside from commercial greenhouses that reach the length of football fields, most of your more workable size greenhouses are assembled from kits. Greenhouse kits that are used to put up greenhouses-- can also be used to take them down. Then, shipped and put back together again wherever you are. All this at a fraction of what a new greenhouse would cost.

And considering what a greenhouse provides—it’s a bargain that you can’t buy anywhere else! The right amount of light, temperature and humidity. In addition to protection from the pests, predators, disease and extreme weather.  Everyone who takes their gardening seriously and who has even the smallest plot of land could build a greenhouse— with good greenhouse plans. And hopefully, instructions included.

When The Greenhouse Goes Up, The Instruction Book Goes Out

Working with a greenhouse kit, means reading from instruction sheets that tell you over and over how easy the greenhouse is to put up. But you won’t have to worry about that, because you probably won’t have the instructions. For some reason, after a greenhouse is erected by the original owner— the instruction booklet is the first thing to be lost, misplaced or thrown out.

What the instructions don’t tell you is that you may need a friend to help. But, once you find out how to build your first one— with or without instructions-- you may want to build a few of them!

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