Building your greenhouse can be a family project, or you can get professional help to erect all or part of it.
A cement contractor built the foundation and walk for ours, and we did the rest ourselves.
Your first profit-making greenhouse can cost you as little as $200, or it can run into hundreds and even thousands.
You can build with inexpensive second-hand materials from an old dismantled greenhouse, buy all new material, build a plastic greenhouse or construct your house with completely or partially prefabricated sections.
What to Grow
Your very first year of under-glass gardening (a term that now means under-plastic, too) can show a profit, even if you are not an expert gardener. Indeed, the plants that are easiest to grow may be the very ones to click in your neighborhood.
Wax begonias, ivy, marigolds, philodendron, petunias, coleus, and cacti can be real profit-makers. Today every city has supermarkets, dime stores, and roadside markets, and these are all potential outlets for such plants. In Minneapolis, some of the drugstores carry small plants, and there are cafes where you can buy a pretty pink begonia as well as a blue-plate luncheon.
Many new home owners know little about gardening but welcome colorful plants if they […]

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