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Plants have gotten so expensive that I decided to expand the amount of starter plants from seeds. This has worked perfectly as a small greenhouse. I created a “floor” from landscape fabric. Since there were people obviously having issues “seating” the metal poles completely in the plastic connectors, I used a small block of wood on the ground (see photo # 2) and lightly tapped each joint with another block to make sure the pipes went completely in. Several times when I thought they were in securely, they weren’t. This would create the problem of the zippers not meeting. I didn’t have that problem. The cover fit over nicely and all the zippered doors work fine. I used landscape staples (one at each corner, one in the middle back and one in between each of the zippered doors) to secure the structure to the ground. I just folded the excess plastic cover to a double thickness and punched through one side of the landscape staples (see photo # 3). It has weathered 50mph wind gusts with no problem. I’m a 65 year old female and I put this together in less than 2 hours - including the landscape fabric floor and securing everything with landscape staples. I took my time because I wanted to make sure it was all well put together and secure. My plan is to dry it out well and store it in a lidded tub for next year once I’m past the frost date and have all my seedlings out. This is a well thought out structure and should give me several years of use for starting plants. You can see from my last two photos that I’ve gotten a lot of plants started in the square footage. Most everything is in trays so I can slide things in and out as needed.

We had trees down and this greenhouse was still standing with the plants safely inside. We had it on a wood deck on a thick mat. We taped the bottom flaps to the mat on the inside (little tricky going around the poles). We tied the corner poles down around a board. Then we tied 4 different ropes all the way around the top of greenhouse around the boards of the deck. We used bricks to hold the three door flaps down. (we did not put it in an ideal spot because the deck sides were blocking the sun.) We did put a heater in during the cold Minnesota spring nights. It still looked great when we put it away after two months of use. It held about 100 tomato and pepper plants. Barely had enough room to put a stand in it to put the heater on. You do not want the leaves touching the sides. By the time the plants needed more room (6 inches tall), the heater could be taken out. I plan to use this greenhouse again next year ....for max of 100 plants in 32 ounce yogart/cottage cheese container 4.5 inch top with holes cut on bottom lip so water drains out the bottom sides.Cons is it heats up quickly in the hot sun and needs the door flaps to be opened a little or all the way depending on the temp. It is difficult when it is hot plus having a 20 mph wind. With the wind it needs to be closed and the warmth it needs to be open. The greenhouse must be checked depending on outside temperature and wind. Normally, I would open it up (how far depending on the forecast of the day) at 7am before going to work and my husband would make adjustments at 2:30pm when he got home. Then check it a few times after that. We always closed it at night and had the heater on (set for 59 degrees F -lowest setting for this heater) for at night. We had no problems with this greenhouse.The greenhouse can handle a lot of wind while shut. But if it is open with wind over 20 mph the wind just rotates inside and plants can tip over and I am not sure how well the greenhouse will hold up . If I want to plant 100 or more plants next year I may buy a big walk-in greenhouse with a vent on the top, instead of buying a second one of these.Minnesota has a huge temperature change in a short time frame. Plus we have 80 mph winds (off the lake) at times.

Although the poles came scratch and dent, I was still able to assemble it. It took about 45 minutes to assemble. Make sure all the joints/couplers are tight and the poles are in as far as they can go and that it is as square as possible. I recommend tapping the end of the poles and couplers with a mallet (where possible) to get them in all the way. This thing is WAY bigger than I thought and I couldn't put it where I had planned. The plastic cover feels cheap. I think the cover will only last a few years of use if it doesn't get destroyed by animals or blown away by the wind. If you are comparing this to a similar model that is 2x the price, get this instead. If you need a plastic greenhouse, and have the space for one this large, get it. If you want a sturdy greenhouse, look elsewhere. Only time will tell how long this will last. If I get 1 or 2 years out of it, it will have paid for itself in plants that mature to harvest.

The cover for the greenhouse was poor stitched together and it was over 2inches to small. I notified the seller and they pushed the problem off onto Amazon. Amazon did not make the greenhouse, therefore the greenhouse is useless. I have had numerous greenhouses over the past 15 years and this is the absolute worst and no help from the seller. I do not recommend buying anything from them.

The assembly is pretty straight forward... just make sure to COMPLETELY insert each framing pole into the connecting points.. it took me about 30 - 45 minutes to assemble the frame. Then another 30 minutes to put the cover on weigh down the whole assembly to our patio. I used pond rocks (from Home Depot) to do this.On the back and the two sides, I tucked the cover underneath the framing poles and put the rocks on the INSIDE. (YES, I got my 6 foot. 235 pound body inside!) On the front where the zippers are, I put the rocks on the outside so I had access to the zippers. The rocks probably added 70 -85 pounds to the frames. It seems very unlikely to move, though I will disassemby it before hurricane season arrives! It DID get warm inside the structure when I was putting the rocks in for weight.This seems to be well constructed and it seems like disassembly should be relatively straight forward. Time will tell, but I do recommend this 8 foot long greenhouse.

It's not very cold and my alovera plants are dying