Your climate and crops grown will determine the best design of your greenhouse to achieve optimum results. We can help you design a greenhouse for your climate.
What works in an area with a prolonged winter with snow, low light and blizzard does not suit conditions for areas with hot tropical temperatures and high light intensity. Deciding on the proper greenhouse design and environmental controls to overcome the climatic challenges your area poses will determine the ability to realize your goals of maximum plant health and growth.
Design a Greenhouse for Your Climate
Arid Climates
An arid desert conditions usually have high temperatures. This, coupled with low humidity, high winds and associate dust and sand create challenges to achieving successful healthy plant growth. In these extreme conditions, a simple shade structure with insect screen sidewalls is the most practical choice. Because of high heat and low humidity, cooling is best realized by a simple mist or atomized fog system. Using automated controllers to operate circulation fans further creates a healthy environment for your plants.
Subtropical Climates
A Mediterranean or sub-tropical regions can experience colder temperatures in the winter and boiling temperatures during the summer. These conditions require a greenhouse heaters at night but still maintain cool temperatures in the summer. Greenhouses with ridge vents, exhaust fans and an evaporative cooler are ideal for these conditions. Adding extra heaters during the winter. helps combat low temperatures. This combination of environmental control systems helps to hold down condensation in the greenhouse. Therefore, there is less risk of mold and bacterial conditions.
Temperate Climates
Large changes in rainfall and temperatures characterize temperate climates. Greenhouses with full covered surface, roof and sidewall vent that allow expanded areas for ventilation. If you are a commercial grower with a large greenhouse, a multi-functional computer controller is important to handle all environmental systems such as ventilation, fogging, shade & thermal screen, heating, mist irrigation, lighting, etc. A double layer of polyethylene film plastic or polycarbonate will reduce the expense of heating and afford optimum environmental control.
Cold Climates
A Northern Tier – Cold Temperature Climates average above 45 degree latitude experience climate variations in temperature and natural sunlight. Often the temperatures in the day can fall below 32 F with copious amount of snowfall and shortened days during the winter.
Our experts will carefully determine the greenhouse engineering required to withstand the particular areas conditions. Typically a rigid roof is utilized to shed snow loads that would otherwise collapse a film plastic covered structure. This type greenhouse often requires supplemental lighting and CO2 because of the structure being kept closed during the winter extreme cold conditions.
Gothic Arch Greenhouses Design Team
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