[Annad83]

Is it possible? Has anyone done it? Any pics?? I'm winding down my allot due to time restrictions and I'm thinking of bringing the greenhouse home and joining it to the one I already have to make a super greenhouse!

[mumofstig]

Have a look here -

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=13184.0

[tinyallotment]

What is it made of?

paul

[anchorman]

Hi,

Joining 2 greenhouses together is possible I reckon but not easy. If its aluminium  there would be quite a few considerations due to the sectional shapes of the frame. Then you would need to make a gusset for joining the ridge beams, IF they are the same shape. You would probably be better off selling the 2 you have and using the cash to buy a longer one.

Not much help I know but It would be quite a complicated task.

[Annen]

It might be more useful to keep them separate and just site them close together.  You can have 2 different sets of growing conditions for different plants eg one for tomatoes, one for cucurbits, or just heat one of them in the winter.

[Kleftiwallah]

I've done just that.  Fish plated the long sides and moved the door from the end to a side.  I'll try and send pic's.

Cheers,   Tony.

[ARPoet]

I built a covered area between mine. Its used as a walk way to my manure heaps behind both greenhouses and has bench down one side that i can use as potting bench or have plants on that are hardening off.

[Kristen]

I planned to do that, and have one as a "different climate section" but a "walk through" to the other. Turned out they weren't quite the same profile ... so I put them back-to-back, with enough room between them to glaze and collect water. So the net effect is that the doors are at opposite ends.  Not sure it is any different to having them side by side, except that they are all in one place / strip in my vegetable patch.

However, I think of 8 x 6 as being quite difficult to keep cool in summer, and (say) 10 x 8 as the point at which temperature control becomes easier, so if you are able to join them (e.g. profile is identical, and thus probably Make / Model) I think 16 x 6 would be easier to cool in summer. Perhaps especially if you have a door at each end (depending on how many roof vents you have, but seems to me that quite often small greenhouses are sold with too few ... I would be wanting at least 6 (3 each side) roof vents on an 18 x 6, so in the absence of that doors at each end for a through-draft would help.

I have staging in one, for propagation / growing in pots etc. and soil borders in the other for cropping Tomatoes etc.



Not sure it shows the "gap" very well, but its the only one I could find ...