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!
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