When planning a new greenhouse for the home garden, the decision depends on many factors. How big should or should it be, will you build it yourself or buy it ready, what is the financial budget and which plants should be quartered at all? Just as important: Does the building actually fit into the existing garden structure and the property as a whole and leave it alone manage the greenhouse alignment in such a way that optimal growth conditions exist for the plants are?
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Light, warmth, sun - everything has to be right
A stand and the optimal alignment for your later planting must be particularly careful be selected, because major corrections can only be made after construction with a very high structural effort realize. So, sun has to come and at least six to seven hours on the day when the house is otherwise on a halfway bright patch of earth. Ten hours is even better, something especially for
Cold frame plantings is beneficial. When the sun is low in winter, a greenhouse must not be surrounded by wooden fences, shed walls or nearby Hedges are shaded. Otherwise it remains cool and dark inside and is attacked relatively quickly by green layers of algae.The type of planting determines the orientation
Whether a greenhouse with the front from north to south (summer cultivation of vegetables and flowers) or from east to west (cultivation in early spring) depends primarily on which plants are to be raised and whether the one ordered area all year round or only for spring planting should be used.
Geometry and greenhouse alignment
Greenhouses(€ 60.76 at Amazon *) with many corners look chic, but have one major disadvantage: they are more difficult to ventilate and also the planting is a little more complicated than the square conspecifics. As a result, the alignment of a square greenhouse in a central location is almost insignificant, since the receiving area for the light irradiation in this case is almost in terms of size is identical. A north-south orientation would be recommended for long houses, as the broad side can absorb a lot of sunlight and pass it on to the plants.
Tips
Already with the geometrical alignment of the foundation, which is to be laid as level as possible, you are later on the dry side, if one low inclination for trouble-free rainwater drainage from the roof and the side walls in the direction of the greenhouse entrance is also planned will.