Greenhouses

[sclancy27]

@Southern Elk go to your local NRCS office, when I worked there they used to cost share small greenhouses. I'm not sure if they still do, but it's worth a shot.

 

[Pagosa]

Here are some construction pictures

 

[Caseknife]

Check out a Walipini. Here is an article about one.

Year-Round Produce: Wyoming Gardener Outsmarts Winter With Underground Greenhouse

Sara Ross loves gardening but lives in Daniel, Wyoming, where there are only 57 growing days a year. So she's outsmarted Wyoming’s brutal winters by…

cowboystatedaily.com

 

[Caseknife]

I built mine under our south facing deck. There is a door to the basement/crawl space in the green house and I have a frost free spigot inside to water with. Added grow lights a few weeks ago and insulated the walls under the counters with 2"solid foam board. The panels are 6mm polycarbonate.

 

[jryoung]

My dad built a cattle panel greenhouse for north Idaho which gets heavy (weight) snow. They've had it up for 4 years now and it's still in great shape, I'm really impressed by it. Was there last week, temp was in the 30s and it was almost 80 inside.

 

[brymoore]

I don’t have a greenhouse but have wasted hours researching building one myself. I’m at roughly 4k’ but I can still grow in my outside garden easily. A green house extends a month on each end of the growing season.

For a 6k’ situation where essentially everything is grown in a greenhouse, I’d research high tunnel greenhouses. You can heat them if you want but otherwise you’ll still have enough long growing season in them.

 

[Fire_9]

I would definitely put it below grade if it were me. There's a farm in Belt that has two of them and they are amazing. Never thought I'd see a banana or lemon tree growing in MT

 

[BigHornRam]

I don't think I would need a full blown greenhouse, but a small one built on the south side of a fence would be handy for starting plants. Something like this.

 

[jpc01101]

Check out a Walipini. Here is an article about one.

Year-Round Produce: Wyoming Gardener Outsmarts Winter With Underground Greenhouse

Sara Ross loves gardening but lives in Daniel, Wyoming, where there are only 57 growing days a year. So she's outsmarted Wyoming’s brutal winters by…

cowboystatedaily.com

+1 Walipini especially if you live on the side of a hill makes it way easier and it will stay much warmer. My friend has one and it is pretty impressive honestly.