In article ,
Penelope Periwinkle wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:59:31 -0600, Katra
wrote:
"samuel" wrote:

Do you heat those pop-up greenhouses (I've never used a greenhouse)?
Thanks for the pictures, by the way. I think you just gave me the idea
I was searching for, if I can find a place to buy them around here!


We just put a clip on lamp in them during the winter to prevent
freezing... The greenhouses never dropped much below 50 degrees using a
single 100 watt bulb.

What was the temp outside?


Penelope

It never got much below 30 this year, I think it hit 28 at the coldest
but it was enough to freeze everything else in the yard! :-(

But, that's winter! It generally never gets any colder than maybe 15 to
17F above zero. My first attempt at an outdoor winter garden did well
with brocolli, kale, mustard and a BUNCH of red swiss chard. I expect to
get a lot more chard this year from it and just planted more babies I
started from seed in greenhouse #2.

The idea of warming the greenhouse is just to keep it above 32 so one
could use more than one lamp if necessary for colder temps. I live in
Central Texas. These seem to hold the heat nicely.

One greenhouse has a pair baby frogs I developed from tadpoles, and a
tank of escargot snails I'm experimenting with, so it was important to
keep it reasonabley warm! I had an additional lamp a bit closer to them
with a 75 watt bulb.

We will be building a pond hopefully this year and I want to raise those
two leopard frogs up large enough to release into it.

The snails will only be released into a steamer pot. ;-d

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