For plants to thrive, it is important that you always look for a good climate in the greenhouse. How to create a good climate, read here.

Ensure good ventilation
Ensure good ventilation

A greenhouse provides a long-term, extremely productive crop of fruits and vegetables. But also for a magnificent cultivation of flowers and potted plants. In addition, a greenhouse serves as a wintering ground for exotic plants that can not remain outdoors in cold climates within our climate zones. Why you must make sure that the climate in the greenhouse is always optimally adapted to the currently prevailing weather conditions in the outdoor area. The following tips will tell you how to achieve this.

Climate in the greenhouse - 4 tips

Tip 1 - Heating system

If your greenhouse hibernates plants or you grow new plants very early in the year, then your greenhouse should have a frost guard ( here available ), better still an integrated heating system. Ideally, special greenhouse heaters should be automatically controllable via a thermostat, such as recirculating air heating systems for greenhouses, which can achieve even temperatures in the greenhouse.

Less suitable are petroleum heaters that spread uneven heat in the greenhouse. Although they are often offered as a heating system for greenhouses.

Tip 2 - Shading

The shading of a greenhouse is urgently necessary, especially in intense sunlight, so that the plants do not burn inside . Suitable for this purpose are either blinds and / or blinds that can be mounted on the inside or outside with special mounting systems. You can also roll up bast mats or plastic mats, or a garden fleece for shading along the roof surfaces.

Tip 3 - Aeration Naturally,

plants should never be exposed to direct drafts. However, in a greenhouse always a pleasant indoor climate prevail. Why you should install a large, wide-opening door - in the case of large greenhouses, two doors on both sides.


It is even better if you also integrate windows or skylights in the greenhouse, which you can easily put in a tilted state. Alternatively, you can also install a special greenhouse fan ( available here ) in one of the outer walls (if possible in gable height).

Tip 4 - Humidity

An automatic irrigation system in the greenhouse usually ensures a high level of humidity, which clearly prefers a large part of the plants. On top of that facilitates a water intake in the greenhouse, there always necessary irrigation of the plants.