in my state, it can be anywhere from 70-100 in just a few days and back and forth, or the winter 50-20. I want to use this mostly for the seedlings as I start them. I already have a brown thumb I don't need something that might kill them faster lol
by Expensive-Target-271
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I think I bought the version of that one with the green reinforcement in the cover material. On sunny days in winter it would get nice and toasty, in the summer I left the doors and windors rolled up. It was wind that was the problem because the tie down points are not beefy but it lasted me 3 years before the zippers failed and tie downs started ripping off.
I used one for a few years and then replaced it with another. I’d start things in the house while it was in the teens and then move them out to the greenhouse later. We get some pretty strong March winds and it pretty much folded one year. I propped it back up for a couple more months and threw it away when I was done. At 20°-30° it will need a heater. At 70° and sunny it will need the door opened for the daytime. For the wind I made an outside frame from ABS pipe to strengthen the second one and it worked ok.
I got one that was clear plastic and it is already separating at the zipper due to our high winds. Put it in a sheltered area and don’t expect it to last more than a season or two!
What does it cost? Looks like very thin tubing for the frame, wind (or snow load) would be the big concerns. Where I live wind would probably wreck that. If it is cheap enough to throw away after damage, no problem. If it is not cheap and you have to spend more reinforcing it, might as well step up to something a bit sturdier.
Probably depends a lot on where it’s located. With little wind getting too it it might stand for a long time.
I had a version of this. The plastic dries out pretty fast and becomes brittle, especially in the cold. They’re not really meant to be kept up year round, more like Spring into Fall. As others have said, expect to get 1 to 2 seasons out of it.