What to Grow in a Greenhouse

Having a greenhouse at home means that you won’t need to shop for expensive fruits and vegetables at the grocery store since you can grow nourishing and delicious produce right in your own backyard.

Even when the temperature drops, by purchasing an all season greenhouse and planting the right type of seeds, you can create a delectable garden of yummy treats all year long.

The Benefits of Having a Greenhouse

You control the indoor climate and humidity levels inside your greenhouse, so you can maintain and tend to the garden regardless of what it’s like outside. Depending on the season, you can encourage the growth of your seedlings by adjusting ventilation and temperature levels.

Having a year-round garden in a greenhouse also means that you won’t have to worry about outdoor pests, such as bugs or rodents, because it’s harder for plant-munching creatures to get inside a well-protected greenhouse than if your plants were outside. And a greenhouse will also protect your garden from the harsh outdoor elements.

The Best Year-Round Veggies For Your Greenhouse

While many vegetables and herbs can grow nicely in most parts of the country and within the protective walls of a greenhouse, always consider your geographic region before you start purchasing seeds. Ensure that they can grow in your area’s climate. For example, you’d be hard-pressed to grow olives in New York, but you may have a better chance of doing so in a place like California. It’s also important to consider the size of your greenhouse and how much time you’ll have to tend to it.

Tomatoes

Growing tomatoes in your greenhouse is an excellent way to extend the harvesting season either because you’d like to enjoy a second crop or there’s generally a shorter growing season in your area. Your greenhouse can extend the tomato harvest season by several months, and it will also protect the plants from rain, which can promote fungal disease.

Furthermore, tomatoes are delicious! You can put them on a sandwich, in a sauce, or bake inside of a quiche. They’re versatile and complement almost any meal, any time of year.

Leafy Greens

Not only are leafy greens — such as Swiss chard, kale, and spinach — excellent sources of nutrition, but they’re also high-producing plants. They’re loaded with fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that encourage good overall physical health. Leafy greens grow well in greenhouses because they love colder temperatures, which means you can extend your growing season and enjoy them throughout the year.

Herbs

Have you ever grown your own herbs? Having immediate access to herbs makes cooking so much fun, and not to mention, easy. Buying herbs from the grocery store is costly, particularly if you’re buying large bunches and only using tiny snippets for your recipes.

Growing herbs doesn’t take a lot of effort, and you can maintain them in your greenhouse all year long.

Having access to an all-seasonal greenhouse provides healthy, delicious food for you and your family all year long. Further to eating healthier, you’ll also save money as you won’t have to take as many trips to the supermarket!

 

Kimberly Atwood’s books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Kimberly lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical research, Kimberly got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Ohio State University. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of London and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships with some really important people who are way too dignified to be named here. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

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