Compared to traditional outdoor cultivation, a greenhouse offers advantages that make such an investment particularly sensible if the air-conditioned usable area is to be used for year-round self-sufficiency with fruit and vegetables. And leisure time fun is not neglected either.
Fresh vegetables can be grown in the greenhouse all year round
In order of precedence, the evaluation of the advantages of a greenhouse will certainly differ. For most hobby gardeners, however, there is first and foremost a good portion of leisure time fun behind it when they are involved in cultivating a wide variety of plants to a certain extent make independent of nature. The trend that has been observed for years that families are increasingly going over to self-sufficiency with fresh fruit and vegetables also plays an important role, since trust in industrially produced food has fallen. Homegrown tomatoes, cucumbers or kitchen herbs are perceived as healthier, which ultimately cannot be refuted.
Flexibility 365 days a year
Greenhouse gardening enables the sheltered and, depending on the type of construction, completely weather-independent cultivation of an unbelievably large variety of plants throughout the entire calendar year. The climatic conditions compared to outdoor cultivation, which depends on the weather and is almost completely unpredictable, can be designed individually and enable improvements in:
- Growth: Plants tend to thrive faster, including species that cannot normally be grown in our vegetation; staggered multiple cultivation, possible regardless of the season;
- Yields and quality: The crop yields do not necessarily have to be higher for every plant species than outdoors, but they are safer there not with weather-related failures must be calculated; Quality, freshness and taste correspond to the standard values of organic food and are far better and above all healthier from a nutritional point of view;
- Pesticides: Chemical growth promoters and pesticides can be largely dispensed with - one of the most important greenhouse benefits when it comes to our healthy diet;
Weather-independent gardening
If the necessary technical equipment is available, you can garden in the greenhouse at any time of the year. If the construction height is appropriate, very comfortable working is possible and no one has to stoop through the beds, as is sometimes the case in small foil tents.
Greenhouse benefits with a fun factor
It's not only great fun to grow a wide variety of useful plants for a health-conscious diet for the family. Even as a cactus and orchid breeder or a lover of alpine plants, you will have a lot of fun with a greenhouse, no matter what type, and find a very demanding leisure activity.
tips
In order to use as many advantages as possible that a greenhouse offers, needs-based planning, which also includes the profitability of the expected construction costs, is imperative. Regardless of whether you build your own or a prefabricated house, this requires that you need a lot of information in advance, which is best obtained from experienced friends and acquaintances who already run a greenhouse.