WINTER GARDEN- Cold Frame, Hot Bed, Small Greenhouse

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March/April 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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I do think it was pretty fine of these people who sell greenhouses to give us such an honest estimate. They just don't believe a small greenhouse will "pay for itself" on the average homestead. It seems that the value of a greenhouse depends largely on how far north you live. If you live where the grocery stores carry most summer vegetables all winter it probably won't pay you to grow vegetables in a greenhouse.

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Commercial growers north of New Haven and especially up past Springfield, Massachusetts into Vermont and New Hampshire can make a greenhouse pay on just one tomato crop. Further north, in Ontario, Canada, it is easier for a commercial grower to make a sure success with winter vegetables.

If you think you'd like to have a greenhouse you might consider attaching it to your house. This lowers the heating cost considerably. I know that Fred Rockwell, editor of Home Garden, has a greenhouse hitched to the southeast corner of his house. The greenhouse is heated by the same furnace that heats the house. This is an economical arrangement because on sunny winter days the greenhouse absorbs a lot of heat and contributes this extra heat to the house. Fred says this system works so well his fuel bills are no higher than before he had his greenhouse.

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