I didn't get a greenhouse this year. So,I got a pop-up greenhouse from Home Depot on-line for $399 Plus shipping. It's 8.5 ft
dia. and 10 ft high. This should hold me over for a winter. I have a small heater for it and with the flaps up and with the door open it cools down ok.
It looks good but I’ll let you know if my Homeowners Ass. sends me a letter.


Terry
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How cool is that!!! My association would be calling me I'm afraid, hope yours lets you do your thing! Nice set up!

Up-Date on the Pop-up Greenhouse.
The Zipper to the door has broken. It started bending right a way. I knew it wouldn't last long.
The door is hard to zip. You have to push in on the frame to make it small enough to zip.
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Terry

Terry,

How is this greenhouse holding up for you? What kind of plants do you have in it all winter? Do you have a heater AND a humidifier in there? What kind of average temps have you been able to sustain inside it? Has it been fairly weather proof?

I ask all of these questions because I am thinking of getting a similar pop up greenhouse to over winter my citrus and other plants. So far I have had them inside my house but I am slowly running out of room and will most likely need to house them outside next winter. We have had sustained temps below zero here and I am worried that I won't be able to provide an environment for them to thrive in, or even survive.

Terry, good luck with the homeowners association. I would always be in real trouble for being extremely belligerent and non-complying if I liven in a home owners association. Fortunately, homeowners associations are mainly East Coast and California. I hear, from time to time, about your citrus and the other plants you grow from Citrus Joe. - Millet

Well, This is the follow up on the Home Depot pop-up greenhouse. The greenhouse has worked well except for one design flaw. The zipper.
Here’s the problem. The supports of the greenhouse are rods that run from top to the bottom edge. To give the needed support these supports are in an outward flex. There is a lot of pressure constantly pushing outward. Now if you kept the greenhouse zipped up all the time I don’t think it would be a problem.
Zipping it up many times is why the tab for the zipper broke early on. It wasn’t but a month or two when it broke. I improvised.
Now leaving the door open caused the next problem. With the door open and the supports pushing outward it didn’t take long for it to warp the shape of the greenhouse. Not to the extent that you would notice it by looking. But the distance between the left side of the door and the right side of the door was slowly becoming further and further apart.
When it got colder and I wanted to zip it up at night. It was hard to do because the doorway was still getting wider and I had to push in on the sides of the greenhouse to engage the zipper. Still there was a lot of pressure on the zipper. Next, the zipper started to rip away from the side material of the greenhouse. Next the zipper was useless.
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I put on a blue press-on zipper. I had to tie rope from one side of the door the other in several places. This helped keep the door way from getting wider. It didn’t make it easier to get inside.
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First, If I had it to do over again I would rig up a binding around the greenhouse that would keep the doorway from getting wider. If the doorway didn’t widen it would have been acceptable.
Second, Otherwise the greenhouse worked. But with 2 problems.
1. Heating the greenhouse was easy with a small heater. As my friend Joe warned me, “cooling it will be a challenge”. And it was.
When it was sunny and over 50 deg. It would get up to 100 deg quickly. Almost daily I had to open the door and all the side vents. Then close it for the cold night. This was time consuming and didn’t help my zipper problem.
2. I live in Wilmington, NC not MN. So far it has only dropped to 19 deg. I’m sure that if I was in MN it would have at the least frozen everything on the outside 2 ft of my 8’ dia. Greenhouse.
On the bright side I have an amazing amount of citrus in my greenhouse. With plants and seedlings and grafts:
Bloomsweet grapefruit
Thomasville citrangequat
Nippon orangequat
Kimbrough Satsuma mandarin
Meiwa kumquat
Procimquat
Yuzuquat
Pepper shaped finger lime -
Yuzu lemon
Tiawaniquat
Sunquat
Ichang lemon
Razzlequat
Hong Kong kumquat
Centenial kumquat
Changsha
Shekwasha (Taiwan Tangerine) -
Naval orange (Washington)
Mexican lime
Etrog citron-
Australian fingerlime
Microcitrus inodora
Microcitrus australis round lime
Microcitrus virgata - The Sydney hybrid
Australian Desert Lime
Bergamot Perfume Lemon
Hanna Pommelo
Indomandrinquat
Karinji
Eustis Limequat
Lakeland Limequat
Kishu Seedless Mandarin
Marumi Kumquat
Moro Blood Orange
Rangpur Lime
Surinum Cherry


Rajapuri Bananas
Ice cream Bananas
Super Dwaft Banana
I have others in there too. I’ll have to wait till spring to see what I have.
Terry

Terry, I think I can see Citrus Joe's name as a supplier in some of the citrus varieties you listed??? - Millet

Millet,
You’re right. I owe a lot of my citrus stock to Joe.
Citrus Joe has been a good friend. Because of him I was able to get and maintain several different Australian Citrus of which I have a fascination. 2 years ago I didn’t know that Australia had citrus.
More important than getting the citrus I’ve been collecting Joe has helped me understand how to take care of it. Some people are natural teachers. Citrus Joe is one of them.
Terry

good lord man, thats alot of citrus in a pop up greenhouse.