By growing in a greenhouse, you can about a month earlier get the first vegetables and greens, and thereby pleasantly surprise your family. Also, hotbeds are actively used for growing seedlings. Below we will consider the various designs of greenhouses for cottages and materials that can be used for their manufacture.
Greenhouses and hotbeds for dachas - what's the difference?
Not everyone knows that a greenhouse and a greenhouse are not the same thing. The differences between them are not only in size, the principle of work is also different. For example, winter greenhouses are heated with the help of special heaters, no additional heating devices are needed for the hotbed. It is the greenhouse effect that fully ensures the climate inside the structure.
In greenhouse conditions, the greenhouse effect, of course, is also there, but due to the large size of the structure it does not have a significant effect on the climate inside. Any of the existing designs of greenhouses and greenhouses for cottages is aimed at keeping heat inside. That is why the materials for the construction must remain tight and serve a long period.
Types of greenhouses for cottages
Conditionally, all existing designs can be divided into in-depth and ground-based. If it is a question of an in-depth construction, then a special trench is dug out and the strapping is made from the measurements. The soil itself will serve as a heat insulator. This option is also called a Russian greenhouse. Its advantage is that the heat is stored and released by the decomposition of biomass, so that even on cloudy days there will be a necessary temperature. There are also more cumbersome advanced designs, where you can work in full growth - a greenhouse hothouse.
The above-ground hotbeds are called French. These are fairly light and transportable structures that fold before the chalom of the season, and then disassemble in store all winter. As a rule, such greenhouses for cottages are made of polycarbonate. Their downside is a lower level of energy savings. There are several variants of such constructions, depending on the features of the shape and number of hatches to be opened:
- The design called "butterfly" has a round roof, which can be opened from the spirit of the sides (in open form it resembles a bird or butterfly with open wings);
- There is another design with a round roof, which opens as a breadbasket;
- The so-called Belgian greenhouse has a saddle roof and is usually used for planting high crops.
Small greenhouses for summer cottages
Any of the ready-made hotbeds will serve you faithfully for a long time, but it is not always possible to purchase this design. Because many summer residents prefer to build mini- greenhouses for dacha with their own hands .
Collapsible hotbed in its design is very similar to a greenhouse, only its dimensions are several times smaller. As a rule, it is made of wooden bars or rods made of metal. These blanks serve for the construction of the frame, on which the protective material will be further stretched.
Modern gardeners have learned to build greenhouses for cottages not only from polycarbonate, but also other materials.
- The simplest option is a conventional wooden board, the roof is a frame, covered with a film.
- If you after the renovation took out the old windows to the dacha, using them for a greenhouse is even easier. As a basis, you again make a conventional wooden box, but the roof will serve as an old window.
- As a roof, you can use a curved in the form of a dome wire, covered with any available transparent material such as a film. And you can make a base from flat slate.
- You can build a more solid construction of the greenhouses under the film for the dacha with walls made of bricks. These types of parts are made sectional for the possibility of airing the greenhouse in parts.