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Why would you want a small portable greenhouse? I can only tell you that for me it works really well as we live at about 9000 ft in the Rocky Mountains and the amount of snow that we get in the winter would demolish a small greenhouse. We do, however, have another home in New Mexico where the winters are cold but there is little snow.

I can use the greenhouse in New Mexico in the winter to carry my plants over into the spring when we dismantle the greenhouse and move it along with all my plants to the mountain home in Colorado. It doesn’t get really warm enough to grow outdoors on the mountain until June but we move at the end of April. Also, for our vegetables, we must use the greenhouse for almost the entire summer as our nights are too cold for the vegetable to mature outdoors. Sometime early in November or so, we move the greenhouse back south to winter our plants and continue harvesting the vegetables.

Portable greenhouses work great in this situation because of the easy set up. The price is also very reasonable for the use we are able to get out of it. They can be folded out in an accordion style with simple posts in the middle. It is just perfect for our seedlings in the spring as well as our wintered plants storage.

Even though the portable greenhouses are smaller and inexpensive, many are made of durable and lasting materials with tear-resistant plastic that blocks UV rays but allows about 75% of the sunlight to come through to the plants. Most also have sturdy zippers in the roof for necessary venting. This venting is important especially for us with the amount of sun we experience in New Mexico even in the winter. It may be cold outside but inside the greenhouse, it can get extremely warm.

Because of the amount of wind we receive, we do need to secure the greenhouse with extra supports. Portable greenhouses are very lightweight aluminum so we need to provide that extra support but don’t mind at all considering the benefits we get from wintering our favorite plants and having the fresh vegetables from our spring seedlings.