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Buying a greenhouse kit...do I need any accessories right away?
I bought a greenhouse kit for the wife for Christmas this year. It's a 6x10 kit by Greenline.
We will assemble it, but will be moving in about 6 months, so it will have to be broken down and moved across town to a new home....so I don't want to make things too permanent with it.
It has a sliding front door, and a roof vent. Are there any necessary accessories that we may need? I'm thinking a heater, a fan, and then some gravel for the floor? I am planning to build her some shelving and tables for the plants.
We live in coastal North Carolina....gets in the 20's and 30's for the lows at night during the winter, and into the 90's in the summer....moderate humidity.
If your purpose is to keep plants from freezing, this will work, but you must have a heater for the nights the temperature is below 32. You seem to be in zone 8; I'm in 8b, and a ceramic space heater is enough for my greenhouse. I only have to use it for a week or two each year.
Gravel is okay for the floor, but you'll need to use sand around the edges to "seal" the greenhouse to the ground if by gravel you mean pea gravel. I have decomposed granite, which has been ideal since it packs like sand.
The single best greenhouse accessory you can have is a watering system. Mine is homemade. It's just a length of 1/2 inch flexible piping you can get at Lowe's or Walmart, attached to a short hose that's on a spigot. One short hose goes into a battery-operated timer, also from Wal-mart. I've got another short hose running out of the timer overhead into the piping, which attached to the roof joists with cable tie. I've got 1/4 inch piping coming out of that with micro-sprayers on the ends over the plant shelves. All this stuff, including the fittings and sprayers, is readily available and is easy to disassemble and move.
Everything gets watered twice each day for 5 minutes, whether I'm there or not. I can root up cuttings, even in the winter, and all my plants grow beautifully. This system actually uses less water than I do with hand-watering, too!
One really nice "extra" my husband gave me last year is a radio-signal thermometer. The base unit is in the greenhouse; a second display is in the house by the back door. This magical device tells me the outside temp and the greenhouse temp . . . when I'm inside and warm!
My husband built my greenhouse. For a plant-crazy woman, this is the best gift ever. Your wife and I are very lucky to have such thoughtful menfolk!