Greenhouse - Walk in Greenhouse with 8 Sturdy Shelves and PVC Cover for Indoor or Outdoor Use - 56 x 56 x 76-Inch Green House by Home-Complete

This is the second portable green house that I have bought. The first one was O-grow brand and had the green cover. The O-grow one lasted 3 years in our Dallas TX winter seasons. This is my first year with this model. They are very similar in set up and materials. thin metal poles plastic joints flimsy shelves not built to last (but let's face it, if you are buying this type of greenhouse you are looking for a long lasting solution right?) I just winter my plants in them and as you can see from the photo i have it set up on concrete on my patio. The first thing to break on my last green house were the plastic joints. The winter freezes just cause them to crack at the stress points. We ductaped the few that broke and they ended up lasting 2 more winters. I expect these will do the same as they are of the same material. the poles and shelves hold up well with only minor rusting inside. That green cover finally gave out which led me to purchase this one. I will say I like the look of the clear cover better than the green one. It also seems a bit thicker/sturdier that the green one. The cover fit over the frame but it took a warm day or two, to stretch out a bit so your could really pull it down to the ground. I secure mine with rocks from my rock garden and it is protected from wind on two sides by my house. The "tie downs" that come on this model are a joke. Don't expect to secure it by that method. A couple of heavy plants on the lower shelves and bricks or rocks around the border of the cover should do the trick. I string a set of Christmas lights in mine to create heat on nights that get below freezing you will need that if you are to keep the plants from freeze damage. But so far my plants have done well in this model over the 7 or 8 freezes we have had this year. I would buy this one again.

I put it together late Monday afternoon and by Friday morning it was covered in holes, many of the ties were ripped off. It is completely unsalvageable.. because of the cheaper cost of this, I didn’t expect it to last me for years and years, but I did have hopes that it would get me through the spring/summer not just 3 days. Honestly it probably had holes in it before Friday, but I worked Tuesday through Thursday 13+ hour shifts at the hospital so I did not go out and check on it when I got home late each night. I’m very disappointed, I didn’t even get to put any starters in it yet.. Also, multiple PVC pipes were disconnected with the slight movement from the wind. The stakes and string supplied were not very sturdy so we even made heavier stakes and used a lightweight rope instead of the little strings trying to tether it and protect it from the wind.It didn’t encounter any extreme weather, just some mild wind in my backyard. We have a lot of trees, a privacy fence, and on the backside of it was my horse trailer to help protect it from any additional wind. Not sure what else I could have done to protect it besides for leaving it in my garage which would defeat the whole purpose. I would like a refund, but to be honest, I’m not sure the refund is worth my time taking apart the shelving and all of the zip ties and trying to ship it back. Plus I already got rid of the box so I don’t know what to do now.I have even more photos because there were so many holes but didn’t include all of them here, I figured 14 photos would get the point across.Pros: I liked that it was very easy to put together, I did it by myself besides putting the cover on because I had my husband help so I didn’t snag or rip it by doing it alone. Directions were pretty straightforward. This would be a fine little greenhouse if you were going to leave it inside your house or garage, but definitely not sturdy enough for anywhere that has even the slightest breeze.

When I first got it and put it together I was pretty happy - we used a mallet to make sure all pieces were securely inside the connectors - doing it by hand they FELT all the way in but when we used the mallet they always went in further. The mesh shelves are pretty flimsy and we definitely used extra zip ties to secure them. I also used some pieces of cardboard to reinforce them and they held my seedling trays fairly well. We set it up against the house on a concrete paver patio so there was no staking it - I had heavy garden pavers and just sat them on the bottom part of the frame inside and on the outside, sitting on top of the plastic flap.At one point we were predicted to get heavy winds (we did) and I rolled out a piece of black landscaping cloth to go over it with a bit of a “flap” at the bottom mimicking the plastic cover flaps and then sat more pavers on the flap. It still moved with the wind but it stayed put and nothing fell off shelves inside. If you need a greenhouse that won't blow away in a storm you should probably just build one. For what this is, it is as sturdy as it can be and a great price.Update: early this spring I had emptied the greenhouse and had been meaning to take it down when a big wind storm snuck up on us. It was definitely picking up the empty, unsecured green house and starting to toss it around so my son and I ran out and took the cover off so it was just the frame and then we hurriedly pulled the frame apart as much as we could and just piled it so nothing would blow away. Admittedly, it got away from me to put it away properly, so it sat there – plastic cover and pile of metal poles and mesh shelves in the Arizona sun and heat the ENTIRE summer. It is January 2022 and we have just put it back together for the 2nd year. The paint is kinda coming off the frame on our hands a little like the sun and weather broke down the clear coat but nothing is bent, rusted (yes it is Arizona but we had pretty torrential monsoon season this year so, plenty of rain) or broken! We knocked all supports in with a mallet, zip tied the shelves on the frame, This time to reinforce the flimsy mesh shelves I had some large cooling racks from the dollar store and laid those on top and zip tied those in place as well- I HIGHLY recommend doing this and wish I had thought of it last year because it added lots of stability and strength to the shelves – just make sure they are large enough to sit over the bar of the main frame when placing them. The plastic cover totally shrunk – the bottom flaps that went on the ground now just barely reached the bottom of the frame so it shrunk shorter but still fits over the frame fine and I just used hose repair tape to pull the flap tight and secure it around the bottom support, I also used this tape to repair some small rips and holes that occurred from the plastic cover sitting in a pile in the yard all summer. I’m still using pavers to secure on the concrete patio. We will not be taking it apart this year, though we will be moving it to the other side of the house and securing it to the ground differently. I do not expect this to last forever, however, for the use I have gotten out of it and until we get the yard to a place that we can build a small permanent greenhouse, and for what I have put this thing through?! I'm still super happy with the money I spent on it – at this time the price is around $80 and I got it on sale for just under $70. Also, the zipper worked fine last year but this year one side doesn't want to go past 3/4 of the way down anymore since sitting all summer. (Pics 1&2 when first set up 11/20, pic 3&4 cardboard to reinforce shelves and landscaping cloth over the top 12/20, pics 5,6 & 7 current set up with pavers, taped bottom edge and reinforced shelves 1/22)