5 Greenhouse DIY Ideas Everyone Should Know

It’s easy price to create a backyard green house to grow your favorite plants all year round. It is possible to enjoy your favorite pastime year-round by using a greenhouse to keep your seedlings and plants chilly in the winter and warm in the summer. When there was a foot of snow on the ground, I’ve seen lettuce and spinach grow in a greenhouse. An old gardening acquaintance of mine used to pot up all of the free seedlings from her yard, grow them in four-inch pots in her homemade greenhouse, and then sell the plants to make money for her charity. Any professional gardener worth their salt would kill to get their hands on a greenhouse, regardless of how you look at it. Therefore, how do I resolve issues at Green Garden? I do our own DIY greenhouse projects, naturally!

How to Build a Greenhouse

I’ve created a list of DIY greenhouse ideas and designs ranging from a simple cold frame to a full-fledged greenhouse for your backyard! Start by reading our “How to Get Started” section to learn how to plan, design, and build your greenhouse.

  • Put your greenhouse so that it runs east to west. This will give it the longest amount of daylight each day.
  • Make sure your greenhouse gets at least 6 hours of sun every day in the winter.
  • Remember, if you want your greenhouse to have electricity, put it close enough to the source.
  • Try to put it away from where kids play.
  • Make sure your DIY greenhouse has a thermometer that works. Unless your system automatically vents, you will need to pay attention to the temperature. For growing to happen, the inside temperature should be at least 45 to 60 degrees in the winter. Even if it’s cold outside, a sunny winter day can quickly warm up the inside of a greenhouse. When the temperature gets too high, open the vents to let cool air in.

 

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Photo by Northern Homestead

DIY Greenhouse Ideas

This free greenhouse design is for a barn-style greenhouse, which can help you grow your plants while also appearing beautiful thanks to its durable corrugated metal and greenhouse plastic sides. The greenhouse plan may be downloaded here. The free greenhouse design comes with images, schematics, a list of supplies and equipment, written instructions, as well as video tutorials.

Soure: Ana White

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Photo by Ana White

Love, love, love this DIY greenhouse made out of a window. You can’t miss this one! This comes from the “Liz Marie Blog” and is great. I mean, it’s like magic, right? This pretty greenhouse is made from old windows, and I might never want to leave it. Like, ever. Liz Marie has a smaller version of this project that comes with a step-by-step guide.

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Photo by Liz Marie Blog

Northern Homestead has given away its free plan for making a GeoDome greenhouse. Using this plan, you can build a greenhouse that is light but safe, lets in a lot of light, has a lot of growing space on the ground, and makes quite a statement. There’s a list of materials, a list of tools, written directions, diagrams, and photos to help you build it.

There are additional tutorials on how to set up a greenhouse, how to cover it, and how to install a hot water tank.

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Photo by Northern Homestead

Here is a DIY greenhouse made out of a small window by “Crafts Ala Mode.” They just assembled some old windows by screwing them together, and they constructed this very gorgeous greenhouse all by themselves! A clear instruction that will lead you through the process.

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Photo by Crafts Ala Mode

This DIY greenhouse from “Handyman Magazine” looks so good, I thought it was for sale at first. To build this yourself, follow their step-by-step guide, which includes instructions on how to add an optional vent. Another one with a video showing you how to build it right.

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Photo by Handyman Magazine

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