SeedHouse
Exercise your green thumb 365 days a year. Designed for home gardening, the FlowerHouse SeedHouse lets you start and maintain seedlings inside your house or out on the back deck. The compact, lightweight SeedHouse is a convenient, effective way to protect your fragile flowers, shrubs, and perennials from harsh weather, particularly during the winter. It’s made of durable, waterproof, UV-resistant Gro-Tec material that features rip-stop protection and is certain to keep birds and insects away from your favorite plants.
You can set up the SeedHouse in seconds using no assembly tools whatsoever. Open the 2-screened vents and 2 large zippered windows for perfect access and to create the perfect growing environment. Close the vents and windows to maintain the high temperature and humidity necessary for the nurturing of your plant life. 2 small portholes allow you to insert power cords or hoses without getting them in the way. Ground stakes, a shade cover, and a carrying pack are included. The SeedHouse measures 3 x 4 x 4 feet and weighs just 9 pounds. A 1-year limited warranty is also included.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Does what it says it does
I bought one of these and proceeded to experiment with it, measuring air and soil temperatures inside and out. (I’m in zone 6, near New York City.) On a sunny day in late March, the temperature inside the SeedHouse will be much higher than outside, sometimes as much as thirty degrees more (I’d be careful about cooking your plants on a warm day!). It also holds humidity in very well, so it’s good for germinating.
On the other hand, just like the instructions that come with it say, it will drop to ambient temperature at night. But over a couple of days, that still means a warmer temperature on average than outside, and it warms the soil perhaps five degrees. And I do expect that if I put a pail of water in it to store the heat of the day, it will probably protect it from spring hard freezes (within reason).
It also stays put well in the wind, as it’s staked like a tent.
The one thing I don’t know yet is the effect on the light. It cuts down on total light a little, but diffuses it. Is that good? I’ll find out.
1 Star What is this actually FOR?
I take full responsibility for ordering this, because I’m not sure what I really expected it to ‘do’ in the first place. In my case, its only use turned out to be as a wind break during the hardening off phase - and I probably could have solved that little issue myself, but since I’d bought the darn thing, I was trying to justify the cost to my husband!
Maybe it’s helpful further north, as I live in zone 7? But it’s hard to imagine how. It doesn’t hold heat at night, so you really can’t start seeds early in it. You could add a heater, but by that point you might as well start them in your kitchen. It doesn’t provide the kind of light that seedlings need, so you’d have to add light…and pretty soon the whole thing just doesn’t make sense.
I guess I bought it because I was suffering from the winter lack-of-gardening blues, but I wish I’d saved my money.
