Mini greenhouses for seedlings are used when growing it on the glassed-in balcony.
Bringing plants to the balcony is recommended for hardening them and to prevent stretching with a lack of light in the apartment.
Design features
Unlike greenhouses for summer cottages, balcony greenhouse is a bookcase for installing boxes with seedlings in several tiers. The number of shelves depends on the height of the structure.
From above the shelves are covered with a transparent cap, most often made of film. Homemade balcony greenhouse may have a glass coating.
The use of such greenhouses is possible only on glassed balconies or loggias.
Mini-greenhouses for balconies - this is a rigid frame, on which a transparent cap for thermal insulation is stretched. Coverage of such greenhouses has opening sides for access to plants.
The maximum height of the structure is 200 cm, width is 90 cm, and depth is 50 cm.
This greenhouse does not take up much space and will fit on any balcony.
It is advisable to arrange a mini greenhouse for a balcony that goes south facing. Northern balconies are not suitable for these purposes - they will not have enough light and heat.
What are they used for?
In the balcony greenhouse can grow seedlings of any plants. Just do not place in the same greenhouse together plants that need different conditions of detention. In one design, tomatoes and eggplants can be grown together. But cucumbers need to be planted with zucchini. It is also not necessary to grow peppers with tomatoes, since they require different humidity.
To increase the illumination can be used in mini-greenhouses illumination fitolampa.
IMPORTANT. Conventional incandescent bulbs for these purposes will not work.
In winter, the greenhouse freed from seedlings can be used for storage indoor flowersat a time at rest (cacti, gloxinia, etc.).
On the average balcony when it is equipped with several greenhouses, you can grow about two hundred bushes of seedlings of different cultures.
Ready greenhouses
Currently, there is a wide selection in trade. greenhouses for balconies different sizes, so each gardener can choose a suitable option for themselves.
Most popular The following types are:
- "Harvest". Mini-greenhouse Russian production. Steel frame, 3 sections. Dimensions - 70Х40Х110. It is completed with PVC a cover on a lightning.
- Greenhouse for seedlings 99-700 from the factory forging. 55Х26Х112. Wooden shelves on a metal frame. Cover - a cover on a lightning from nonwoven fabric.
- Mini-greenhouse greenhouse JXX-10024. Frame - metal tube. It is completed with a cover of their PVC on a lightning.
- Esschert Design W2002. Cast iron house with glass. Reliably protects plants from the cold, while the seedlings are illuminated as much as possible from all sides.
- Sun tunnel. It is a solid box with a polycarbonate cap. The ends are provided with rounded vents. Dimensions - 110H320H50. Suitable for large balconies or loggias.
- "Snail". Portable greenhouse on a metal frame. Suitable for large balconies or loggias. Its dimensions are 210x110x85. Greenhouse cover is reclined, made of polycarbonate. In summer, the greenhouse can be used by setting directly on the garden bed.
- "Nurse Mini - a miracle". 530Х730Х2030. It consists of a frame made of metal pipes. The coating used is clear or yellow polycarbonate. Painting in yellow color creates a special light spectrum, contributing to the creation of favorable conditions for plants. The set can be offered suitable in size drop boxes. The size of the greenhouse allows you to place it up to 12 boxes of size 110x480x150.
A photo
The photo shows a mini greenhouse for seedlings on the balcony - types:
Automated mini greenhouses
This system has a slightly higher cost than simple greenhouses, but seedling growing process in such a design as simple as possible. They provide ventilation systems. Watering and lighting fitolamp.
Such a greenhouse can be installed in any room. Named such mini-greenhouses "Growbox". The construction covers an area of four square meters.
An important feature of such greenhouses is the ability to select the optimal moisture, temperature and light for different crops. Full automation of the process of growing seedlings in such structures - result guarantee.
Greenhouse on the balcony do it yourself
In addition to ready-made greenhouses produced by industry, there are options for the construction of such structures by myself. Moreover, the configuration and materials for their manufacture differ in diversity. The top cap opens with a slight movement of the hand. Greenhouse for seedlings does not require assembly, as it is completely ready for use.
Based on wooden box
The basis of such a mini greenhouse is wooden box. The side walls are raised in the form of a gable roof. The cover is made of polycarbonate and screwed onto a rail located in the center of the structure. Drawers or pots with seedlings are installed inside the box
Greenhouse - Aquarium
Balcony greenhouse for seedlings - The easiest way to grow it. Boxes with plants just covered with an inverted aquarium.
Based on shoe shelves
As a rack can be used regular shoe shelf. For her, made a transparent cap. Even simpler design, which is worn transparent raincoat with zipper.
Of rack frames
For this design are made of wooden bars. A polyethylene film or polycarbonate is packed on the frames according to their size. From the frames thus prepared, the box is made.
The top frame sits on the hinges for opening. The design can be made without a bottom and cover its boxes with seedlings. By the way, with the onset of heat, this design can be used on the beds. 
From the old cabinet
If you have an old cabinet with glass doors, you can used as a greenhouse. You can put it back wall to wall. But for better illumination of plants, it is better to place it in such a way that the access of light is from all sides.
In this case, the back wall must be dismantled and tightened with a transparent film or a sheet of polycarbonate.
Seedlings, hardened in a mini-greenhouse on the balcony will be strong and resistant to adverse growing conditions in open ground. Use the balcony space to good use, instead of turning it into a closet for unnecessary things.
