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Would my VFT's etc survive in a mini greenhouse over winter in tempretures of up to -10 celcius?
We have snow aswell.. I live in Dundee, Scotland.

The greenhouse is similar to this: http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?a ... arch=false

And also, would this be ok in summer? or would it cook my plants? Summer tempretures range from 19-29 celcius.. can sometimes go into the 30's..

If anyone could help or direct me to a better greenhouse type thing that would be great.

Cheers,
Ronnie.

Anyone have any advice?

Growing in a greenhouse without heat or some form of cooling can be difficult. I learned that last year. I use a shade cloth and fan in the summer and then I ran electricity out to the greenhouse to run a heater in the winter. I keep it above freezing in the winter and as cool as I can in the summer. The plants struggled last year when I wasn't cooling the greenhouse.

I think it would be fine in the summer as long as that door was always open.
Winter time i think anytihng inside would freeze though.

What I have read is that the reason green houses are bad during winter is dehydration. Apparently, it's better to have a VFT frozen solid for many days than to be frozen and thawed over and over again. I'm guessing you would want to have all windows in the green house open and then in february shut them and add a heater to avoid freezing over night and let the temperatures get into the 20s during the day to start a lengthened growing season.