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What is better - a greenhouse or a hothouse: the whole truth was told to novice gardeners
13.03.2024 22:43
Due to ignorance, many often call a greenhouse a hothouse or, conversely, not suspecting that these are different things.
Each structure has its own purpose and capabilities.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told when it is better to install a greenhouse, and when a hothouse will suffice.
Greenhouses
A greenhouse differs from a hothouse not only in shape and size – it can also be a heated room.
It allows you to create a warm, humid, comfortable and weather-protected climate for heat-loving plants.
Here you can control all climate conditions from temperature and humidity to lighting.
But the main advantage of a greenhouse is that you can extend the vegetable growing season.
Greenhouse
It can be called a light version of a greenhouse, allowing to increase the yield, but this design clearly does not reach the level of a greenhouse.
Often this is a portable structure without a foundation, which is installed during cold weather or when growing seedlings.
Use is limited, and frames are generally installed in early spring and dismantled before the autumn frosts.
Conclusion
The main advantage of a greenhouse is the independence of the microclimate formed inside from environmental conditions.
Various systems can be installed here: irrigation, temperature and humidity maintenance.
In a greenhouse, heating occurs naturally, due to the temperature of the air and soil or organic additives added to the soil.
Maintenance and arrangement of a greenhouse is easier and cheaper for summer residents.
Earlier we talked about what to plant next to cucumbers .
