Home and Family Author: C.A. Perez

Now is the time to look for greenhouses for sale. Summer is the perfect time to find sales and deals on all gardening tools and accessories. Retailers are especially anxious to lower their inventory of home greenhouse kits.

If you are a serious gardener or just beginning, you know the advantages of having an extended growing season.

I got the gardening bug from my grandfather. Visiting his home, I remember an abundance of colorful blooms carpeting the landscape spotted by multi-branched ancient pecan trees and spindly flowering peach trees that were lazily scattered about the front and back yards.

What I remember most is the anticipation of harvesting fresh nectar filled watermelons. A feast! Sweet red pulp laced our lips and sticky red juice trickled down from our gorging mouths. The dark brown watermelon seeds gathering at our feet like spent cartridges.

We grew up in the Southwest where the growing season can be as long as seven months. With that long of a season, buying any home greenhouse kits was a pretentious luxury. Nobody needed a backyard green house.

I now live in the Great Northwest. Here the climate does not favor melons, squash, cucumbers or other semi-tropical vegetables and flowers. Here in the Northwest having a backyard green house is no frivolous luxury. It is a necessity. It is a 'must have'.

Without a garden green house, you take the chance of not having a harvest at all or at the very best a meager one for many warm weather vegetables. After my first two years in the Northwest, it became very apparent that I needed to buy a home greenhouse kit if I wanted a variety of vegetables for my dinner table. Leafy vegetables were no problem, but not my watermelons!

I harvested an abundance of spinach and lettuce. But, man does live on lettuce and spinach alone! I wanted some hot peppers, eggplant, watermelon, and cantaloupe. We can get a frost as late as mid May and as early as the middle of September.

I searched the internet and local newspapers for greenhouses for sale and found one of the smaller ones. I bought it. Buying one of the many home greenhouse kits available will be one of the best investments you could ever make.

Owning one has extended my gardening by about three months. If you want to lengthen your gardening period, a hobby green house is a must.

Greenhouse designs vary from the conventional metal framing and plastic sheeting to the more exotic wooden frame and polycarbonate UV panels. Of course, there are greenhouse designs that meet anyone's needs.

If your space is limited, you can buy a portable greenhouse. Their functionality is no less than that of larger permanent fixtures. A portable 'hot house', sometimes called a mini green house is perfect for the patio, balcony, or deck. It is inexpensive, lightweight, and very movable.

A portable greenhouse come be as small as a closet hutch or as large as a small carport. Most are made with rust resistant galvanized steel. Some portable greenhouses have polycarbonate panels that are safer than glass and just as durable; others use UV protected polyethylene sheeting.

Traditional permanent backyard greenhouses also have a wide range of greenhouse designs, sizes, and prices from which to choose. Your choices are limited only by your imagination, your needs, and the size of your pocketbook. Quality hobby greenhouses can last for twenty or more years.

Anytime is a good time to buy a backyard greenhouse. However, in the summer, you can find some great sales as retailers reduce their inventory. Besides, I would rather assemble my greenhouse kit in the warmth of summer than in the cold of winter. You can shop for greenhouses for sale on the internet. Amazon has a wide selection to choose from and your purchase is guaranteed.

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