Lean To Greenhouse - A Valuable Home Addition

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A lean to greenhouse is a greenhouse designed to "lean to" another structure. Many people design sunspace additions to their homes that double as greenhouses. A sunspace can provide many benefits for your home. As a greenhouse, it can be a place of solace where the presence of tropical plants provide refuge against frigid winter winds. Seedlings can be grown for the vegetable or flower garden. The lean to greenhouse can also provide heat for the home on a sunny day.

The lean to greenhouse can be designed with multiple or single purpose in mind. It can be built as a "plant only" structure whose only function is to grow plants. As such, plumbing and heating must be provided as well as benches for the plants to grow on and storage for the various paraphernalia needed to grow plants. In such a structure there will be little room for people.

A multipurpose room would possibly be more suitable. Plants can be grown in pots and on shelving designed for such use and scattered around the structure. A special area for seedlings could be provided. This can be only temporary, as seedlings are usually only produced during the spring season. The seedlings can be moved to an outdoor hotbed or cold frame when ready to transplant, leaving the sunspace used only for the larger, decorative tropical plants.

The lean to greenhouse will be the least expensive greenhouse to build and the easiest to heat, as one wall, the home’s, is already in existence. Possibly the roof is there too, if an existing porch is converted into a sun porch.

A lean to greenhouse can provide many benefits to the home it is attached to. Green plants can be therapeutic, especially in the cold, bleak, winter months. Additional solar heating for the home as well as additional living space. And it can provide a spot to grow seedlings for the vegetable and flower garden.

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