Greenhouse heaters are a smart investment to help you stay warm while gardening and extend your gardening season to grow more fruits and vegetables.
Keeping your plants warm can protect them against some disease and harm caused by frost. Depending of the heater you buy, you can also use it in the summer to improve air circulation.
Benefits of greenhouse heaters
1. Helps seeds grow into plants
2. Helps keep existing plants warm during the winter.
3. Improves circulation in greenhouses.
When researching which greenhouse heater to buy you need to consider, the size of your greenhouse, the size of the heater, operating costs, and costs for the heater.
There are lots of different heaters to choose from
Paraffin heaters Most inexpensive, ideal for small greenhouses, available in a variety of sizes.
The downsides paraffin heaters it can be hard to find fuel, manually controlled.
Gas heaterCheap to use with gas that is readily available, however, they emit smoke and fumes so the greenhouse needs to be well ventilated.
Electric heatersAffordable and run and do not emit any fumes. You do need to have electricity available or a power supply.
The best time to get a good deal is in the summer and fall. In the summer most companies are trying to make room for summer inventory so they tend to put heaters on sale. In the winter larger companies have sales on heaters since they know that is when people are thinking about or need them. Watch for internet specials or circulars in the sunday newspaper.
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