For 20 odd years I have done battle with the elements, the soil, the slugs and snails, rodents and raptors, without chemicals or traps. I know that I need a greenhouse, but a glasshouse is not in my immediate future, so I have tried a variety of temporary solutions. This is my third portable greenhouse and the best I have found. It is well designed and solves problems the others don't. One of the others is about half the size and has the same shelving. I had been using it for seed flats and seedlings. Seems that the birds have discovered that those little peat pots contain seeds and they have knocked it over daily to get to them. {not incidentally, Hitchcock was a gardener}. The third does not have adequate ventilation and my seedlings have burned up in there. This one is the best for a variety of reasons. You can actually stand inside of it (maybe not fully upright, but). It has windows which provide better ventilation than the others. It is also tinted so it does not get as hot. It comes with landscape staples and tie downs. Despite their best effort, the birds have not tipped it yet! It also has a door which zips on both sides. It is easy enough to open, but the birds haven't gotten in (like they did with the hardware cloth cage I built for my tomatoes last year). It is still a bit hot for our climate (Hawaii). The seedlings I have put in there are OK so far, but I am afraid the seed flats will roast.
The shelves are very light weight, but all of them have been. I would not put anything too heavy in here, but for starts, it does protect them from the elements and the wildlife.
Best I have found
For 20 odd years I have done battle with the elements, the soil, the slugs and snails, rodents and raptors, without chemicals or traps. I know that I need a greenhouse, but a glasshouse is not in my immediate future, so I have tried a variety of temporary solutions. This is my third portable greenhouse and the best I have found. It is well designed and solves problems the others don't. One of the others is about half the size and has the same shelving. I had been using it for seed flats and seedlings. Seems that the birds have discovered that those little peat pots contain seeds and they have knocked it over daily to get to them. {not incidentally, Hitchcock was a gardener}. The third does not have adequate ventilation and my seedlings have burned up in there. This one is the best for a variety of reasons. You can actually stand inside of it (maybe not fully upright, but). It has windows which provide better ventilation than the others. It is also tinted so it does not get as hot. It comes with landscape staples and tie downs. Despite their best effort, the birds have not tipped it yet! It also has a door which zips on both sides. It is easy enough to open, but the birds haven't gotten in (like they did with the hardware cloth cage I built for my tomatoes last year). It is still a bit hot for our climate (Hawaii). The seedlings I have put in there are OK so far, but I am afraid the seed flats will roast. The shelves are very light weight, but all of them have been. I would not put anything too heavy in here, but for starts, it does protect them from the elements and the wildlife.