A greenhouse without heat and the house plants that can grow there

Without Heat

Heat is not essential for all kinds of greenhouse gardening. Although gloxinias, for instance, usually are grown in a well-heated house, a Minneapolis man has found out how to make a tidy profit from them without heat. In late February, he starts seedlings in his kitchen windows and in his basement under fluorescent lights. When the weather warms up in late April, he moves the seedlings to an unheated pit greenhouse. By August, when the local market is just right for selling gloxinias in flower, he has quantities-and florists clamor for them. Actually he could sell many more if he wanted to expand his little project. And this is carried on in a greenhouse, without heat, in Minnesota’s cold north country.

Another friend makes money from an unheated greenhouse by using it as a potting shed and starter room for potted roses, daylilies, and iris. She also has a heated greenhouse-a glassed-in extension of the south portion of the basement which she uses for starting seeds of tender plants. She has found that this is also the perfect place for a few potted orchid plants whose blooms are always in demand.

Potted conifers grown in a cool greenhouse bring profit to another Minnesota gardener who prefers growing trees to flowers.

House Plants

A young man in Oklahoma made a success of growing many kinds of house plants in a 6- by 9-foot plastic-covered greenhouse. Total outlay for all materials was $70.00, and it was not unusual for him to net that amount in a single month. An enthusiast in Maine invested $75.00 to transform an old chicken coop into a small lean-to greenhouse. She soon developed it into a profitable hobby, and today she owns and operates four large greenhouses. Her specialties are potted ges-neriads (African violets, etc.) and bedding plants, such as coleus, wax begonias, and geraniums.

And what about growing plants just for their seeds? Seeds of newer varieties of saintpaulias often bring as much as $750.00 per ounce! There is also a steady market for seed of rare plants and extra-fine strains of garden and house plants.

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