How to make a greenhouse: 8 designs and a lot of ideas

Even having a small piece of land, it is difficult to do without a greenhouse. Grow seedlings, get an early harvest, cover them from possible frost, from the heat, force the plants to flowerbed blossom earlier - all this can be done with this device. And it's easy to make a greenhouse with your own hands. There are very simple designs, there are more complex ones, but the manufacture of any of them does not require special education.

The frame for the greenhouse can be made of wood (boards), metal (corner, profile pipe or fittings) or PVC pipes (round or square). Cover the greenhouse with the same materials as greenhouse: film, spunbonod (also called agrofiber or non-woven covering material), polycarbonate and glass. Since the size of the greenhouses is smaller (the plants in the greenhouses are served outside), the requirements for them are not so strict: they are not afraid of even a strong wind.

Greenhouse sizes

Since the plants in the greenhouse are served outside, its width is chosen so that you can comfortably handle plants planted closer to the middle. Determine this empirically: sit down, and try to reach with your hand to a certain area. Measure the distance. Get the width of the greenhouse with a one-sided approach. This is if the greenhouse is located so that you cannot get to it from the second side (near the wall, for example). If you can approach from both sides, this result is doubled.

It is important to work comfortably

The distance for each person is different: height and physical condition affect. Do not chase the economy by making it wider than necessary. You will have to spend a lot of time on weeding, loosening, fertilizing, and other work. A couple of hours in an uncomfortable position, and no strength remains. Therefore, it is better to make the greenhouse a little narrower, but to make it convenient to work: getting pleasure from work, you spend less energy.

And the length of the greenhouse is chosen based on the layout of the site. It is arbitrary.

A simple greenhouse from arcs under a film or spunbond

This greenhouse is made of several boards, knocked down to the required dimensions, arches of PVC pipes, which are attached to a wooden base. The tops of these arcs are connected at the top with a bar or the same pipe. If it is a timber, it must be well processed by rounding the edges so that the film does not tear.

Simple greenhouse made of boards and PVC arcs

How to fix arcs

How to fix PVC pipe arcs on the greenhouse frame. Fastened most often using a metal perforated tape. Take a small piece of it 5-6 centimeters, screws and a screwdriver. And they are fixed on both sides. For reliability, you can do it twice.

This attachment can be repeated twice

In exactly the same way, you can fix them from the inside, to keep them stronger, add bars.

Greenhouse arcs are fixed inside the frame

Another option: drive in pieces of reinforcement near the frame, and put pipes on them and only then fix them with clamps to the frame boards. This option is more reliable.

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How to attach the film

You can attach the film to PVC pipes with double-sided tape. But only if an inexpensive plastic film was used: it is impossible to tear it off without damaging it, and polyethylene lasts no more than a year. So for a seasonal greenhouse, this option is from the category of "cheap and cheerful". The second method is special clips for fixing films and everything that can replace them - a piece of an old hose cut lengthwise, a clip for pipes that are used for installing pipelines, office binders, etc.

How else can you fix the film in the meadows of a greenhouse or greenhouse

It also makes sense to fix the block on both sides along the edges of the film. For this, the film is cut off more than necessary in length, a bar is wrapped in the excess and the film is fixed on it. Now you have a piece of film with bars attached to its short sides. Leave one on one side, throw the other on the other. Now you do not need to press the film to the ground with stones: the block holds it well. It is also convenient with him to open the greenhouse for airing, wound the film, put it up.

A bar wrapped around the edges of the film makes it easier to work

You can use small nails to fix the film, but put washers under the caps. Work faster with a construction stapler with staples. To prevent the film from tearing at the attachment points, it is laid with something. It is possible - a dense braid or just a strip of fabric, and fasten fasteners into it.

Methods for attaching the film to the bar and to the arcs

More powerful option

If there is a need to make a greenhouse with PVC arches more reliable, wooden racks are nailed to the base of the boards in the center of the short side. A board is attached to them on the edge, in which holes are pre-drilled in diameter larger than the outer diameter of the pipes.

This greenhouse can be used not only for growing peppers or eggplant. Having grown the side racks, if necessary, it will be possible to tie up cucumbers or tomatoes

During installation, the pipe is threaded through the hole. You can fix it on the sides as suggested above, or do it in another way: pre-install the studs in the bars, and put the pipe on them.

How to fix the longitudinal bar in the racks

The easiest greenhouse

What is great about PVC pipes is that they are easy to bend. Even the fact that they weigh a little. Ideal for a lightweight portable greenhouse, especially when combined with spunbond. This material can be sewn. Take a piece with a density of 30 kg / m2, with a step of 50-60 cm, make drawstrings in it. For the drawstring, stitch across a strip of the same material about 10 cm wide (it is stitched on both sides). Insert the pipes cut into the required lengths inside.

Here's what it should get: covering material with arcs threaded into the drawstrings

Now all this can be installed on the garden bed: stick the pegs in two rows on one and the other side of the garden bed, plant a pipe on them. A ready-made greenhouse is immediately obtained. And what's more convenient: you open and close the plants simply by collecting or spreading the spunbond on an arc. This is a very convenient temporary greenhouse: as soon as it is not needed, it can be removed and folded in a couple of minutes.

Greenhouse - it couldn't be easier

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Triangular greenhouse made of boards

This greenhouse is good for seedlings, but you can do it for peppers, eggplant. A stand is nailed in the middle of the base. There are two inclined boards to it. In the section, a triangle is obtained. If a greenhouse is needed long, the same structure is installed approximately every meter. All tops are connected with a long bar or pipe. This greenhouse has a simple and convenient design.

Cucumbers are grown with it only until they begin to curl. Under the cucumbers, the covering material is removed, the racks are nailed (screwed) to the sidewalls, between which the twine is pulled.

Triangular greenhouse made of boards

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Greenhouse "Khlebnitsa" and "Butterfly" - photo

This design is called "bread box" due to the fact that one in one looks like a plastic container for bread. Its lid also rises upward, hiding behind the second half. If you look at the photo, you will understand everything.

Such a greenhouse-bread box can be welded with your own hands from a profile pipe

There are two types of such products: opening from one or both sides. If it is shallow, you can work with a lid that opens on one side. If the width is more than a meter, it will be easier to work if there is access from both sides. This design with two opening sides has its own name: "Snail".

A film, spunbond, is stretched onto the fabricated frame, but polycarbonate is more popular for this design.

The second design differs in the type of door opening. Its arch is also made on arcs, but it opens up on hinges (see the picture).

Butterfly greenhouse: when open, the lids resemble wings

They can be installed directly on the ground or on a prepared base made of bricks or timber. In some cases, the lids do not open immediately from the ground, but there is a small side 15-20 cm.

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From scrap materials

To turn unnecessary things into useful products - our people have no equal in this. They make greenhouses out of things that you never think of.

For example, you can easily make a greenhouse with your own hands from old window frames. When replacing windows, do not rush to throw them away. You can make a great greenhouse out of them. Moreover, the designs may be different. The simplest is a body made of planks, to which a window frame is attached from above as a cover (with glass, of course).

A simple framed greenhouse: a wooden enclosure to which an old window frame is hinged

In order for the plants to receive maximum light, one of the sides of the frame is made higher (which faces south or east). There are different frames, any of them can be used for these purposes. As proof - a photo gallery of greenhouses made of frames, which were made with their own hands by zealous owners.

They make greenhouses from barrels. Cover with an old transparent umbrella or cut off plastic water cans.

Greenhouse from an old barrel

A way to grow cucumbers

A homemade greenhouse can be made from a plastic or foam box. Although "to do" is a loud saying. All you need is to stretch the film.

All ingenious is simple

Have a plastic box? Can be adapted for seedlings

Mini greenhouses for seedlings

For those who grow seedlings for their own garden or flower garden, large volumes are useless. We need little greenhouses. Moreover, many grow seedlings on balconies. All of the above designs can be used for a reduced size balcony. For very minor plantings, you can generally take plastic egg trays. On the one hand, you will get a container for soil and, and the lid will be instead of a shelter. Consider the rest of the ideas in the photo.

You can assemble a greenhouse with your own hands in a few hours. You don't have to build any complex structures. Everything is very simple, economical and practical.