Does anyone have a greenhouse?

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I've always wanted one. My neighbor down the road has one. His is nothing fancy. Just the hanger type, with thick plastic over it. It's probably 20 feet wide and 40 feet long. When I was down there last month, it was probably 15 degrees outside, but a very comfortable 45 to 50 degrees inside. He already had many vegetables started. I could have sat there all day and hung out, and wanted me to build one for myself that much more.
Pros and cons? Any advice?

[northshore]

We have a 25 by 36 hard ploy greenhouse,just put a propane heating system in it two days ago. We also have a homemade one, it is made from wood and 1 inch PVC. Two 10' pieces glued together give you a 10'or 12' wide greenhouse. We get a lot of snow here so the ploy has to come off the homemade one. Greenhouses allow you to start earlier and go later and grow crops that require or do better with more heat. They are more maintenance to grow in and when things go wrong they go quick. You can also do a winter harvest garden in them if you are going to grow directly in the ground in the greenhouse.They are well worth to have for the garden.

[bk]

On the home place, I helped my Dad build one for my Mom. Remember it was a lot of work but worth every minute.  It was a lean-to type on the south side of the house. 12 x 32 if I remember correctly. We put up a wood frame and covered it with double wall plastic panels we purchased from Farmtek. Had an outside door on each end and one leading into the house. Extra heat in the winter was just blown into the house and we would close the door into the house at dark and had a wood stove in the greenhouse to keep things toasty at night, without sucking all the heat out of the house. 

Mom always had veggies and plenty of her flowers growing.  Loved to sit out there when it was 30 below and it was like sitting on a sunny beach.  Pretty cool the first time I picked lemons off her trees in the greenhouse - in December in northern Wisconsin.

[farmertrappe]

I have a cold frame I picked used a few years ago and unfortunately have not done much with it-time & $$. If you are interested in starting plants and maybe some lettuce and spinach in the winter its pretty cool what you can do with the livestock panels from TSC.

[northshore]

If your interested in doing winter stuff look up a guy named Eliot Coleman. He has a few books out about it.