Geodesic dome greenhouse kits offer efficient and elegant designs that extend your growing space, growing season and even your living space. Some people invest greenhouses as an extension of their home, for a mosquito free garden oasis patio space.
Extend Your Growing Season
Most gardeners we hear from would love to be able to extend their growing season, and even grow food year round. We love the idea of being able to grow things like avocados and dwarf citrus and other milder climate fruit trees, plus year-round fresh herbs, greens and veggies. So we definitely plan to invest in multiple greenhouses over time.
We’re intrigued by the concept of the geodesic dome greenhouse kits, and are glad to be able to learn from and share this article on growing domes. We asked the owner of Geodesic Dome Greenhouses, James Freed, how it is for growing year round.
Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Kits
Article by contributed by James Freed, of DomeGreenhouses.com
Why domes? Geodesic dome greenhouses are an efficient design for creating an optimum environment for growing in both cold and warm climates. Whether it’s an arctic climate in winter, or something milder, you can actually grow year round in a dome greenhouse.
Our geodesic dome greenhouse kits and designs range from 15 to 100 feet in diameter and up to 50 feet high and use the best in solar greenhouse technology.
Designed for both tropical and cold hardy plants, our greenhouse kits are unique, robust garden structures, made from eco treated wood struts and metal or schedule 80 poly hubs and covered by reinforced polyethylene.
Families, schools, after school programs and community centers are using greenhouse kits to allow families and communities to grow fruits, vegetables, flowers and even trees. Depending on your location and growing zone, supplemental heat and lighting may be needed. Besides allowing you to grow organic food year round, these domes create a green oasis in the middle of winter.
A greenhouse is a gardener’s favorite winter hangout. Make it geodesic dome, and they might just move in!
Benefits of Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Kits
Strong
The first greenhouse kit design feature is, of course, the shape of the geodesic dome. While it is a beautifully shaped building, its real beauty lies in its strength.
The triangle shapes forming the geodesic dome creates a geometric pattern of strength not replicated in a simple rectangular shape. With designs for roof top growing for cities, geodesic greenhouses are the best structures for wind, seismic, and snow.
Adaptable
Adaptable to any scenario, you can choose geodesic dome greenhouse kits large enough for community gardens.
Efficient
The dome design is much more efficient than high tunnel cold frames. Dome greenhouses were approved for the USDA NRCS High Tunnel Program, (but check first to see if that option is still in place if you’re interested in possibly applying).
Building Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Kits
In this video, James Freed demonstrates constructing a geodesic dome greenhouse using one of his kits.
Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Photos
Images by James Freed of King Dome, Inc
Comments from the Community
Paula Kohagen Rigby and her husband, Keith Rigby were delighted to finally get out of the city life and are now building their dream homestead in Idaho. They’re doing it right, living in a small cabin attached to their wood shop while they’re building their new home.
They’ve already built their geodesic dome greenhouse – a 26 foot grow dome with a huge pond for fish. Paula says they need to install a propane heater this winter before adding the fish.
Love this photo of the Rigbys’ posing as the classic American Gothic painting by artist, Grant Wood of The Farmer and His Wife. 👨🏼🌾👩🏻🌾👏🏼😊
RELATED: We used a similar fun kind of photo in this article on the idea of landscaping service providers adding vegetable gardening and maintenance, as a part of their services for those looking for gardening related business ideas.
But… back to DOMES!
Buy a Geodesic Greenhouse Dome
Contributed by Paula Kohagen Rigby
Buy a growing dome! We’re at 3100 feet, and seven miles up in Kamiah, Idaho and my tomatoes are still going strong in August! Growing Spaces dome company in Colorado is the best!
NOTE: If you contact Growing Spaces, please tell them you heard about them through Paula Kohagen Rigby, who so graciously and candidly shared her photos and experience.
What makes them [Growing Spaces’ grow domes] so fantastic is they work with bees wax which heats up causing the vents to open and then when the sun goes down the vents close as the wax hardens. My brother is a home builder here but he had never built one so he, my husband and another guy built it.
The outer beds have vents with a cooling fan. I am growing lemons, lime, avocado and olives. With many vegetables.
Small and Inexpensive Greenhouses
If you need to start off smaller and the least expensive, then a cattle panel greenhouse may be the way for you to get started in greenhouse growing. That’s what we’ve done.
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Best Geodesic Dome Kits on Amazon
These companies selling well reviewed kits on Amazon are slim as of this writing, but here are two that look promising.
Dome Kit by Hubs
This kit by “Hubs” gets pretty good reviews and contains instruction and connectors. You add the wood, PVC or metal “sticks”, so the size is variable based on what size you cut your structure materials to.
The company says, “You can adjust the size of your dome but adjusting the length of your sticks. Our stick calculator should be able to help you.”
One reviewer said it cost them about $300 to complete given materials and kit, and of course depending on the materials you choose and the size you use.
Geodesic Dome Kit by Greenhouse Garden Supply
This 16 foot grow dome comes with galvanized steel frame, though scant verified reviews as of this writing in 2020. This kit includes 7mil marine poly shrink cover, but not the door. GGS says, “Dome frames include a doorway entrance frame kit only. This will give you the entrance way for walking inside the dome. We do not include a finished door.”
Let us know if you have any questions and we’ll ask our experts, or you can contact them directly in the links provided. Or if you know of a good geodesic dome greenhouse kit company, either from your personal experience of buying one or because it’s your company, let us know and we’re glad to add your info to this article.
Wishing you longer growing seasons and healthy harvests!
I’m LeAura Alderson, a garden, herb and plant enthusiast with a passion for discovering the many edible and medicinal benefits of the plants all around us, including the weeds! I’m a writer, editor and media publisher for our family of websites.
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