Outsunny Greenhouse UPDATED REVIEW - 1 year later
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- After 1 winter of using the Outsunny Greenhouse, I have a different opinion of it. This is a follow-up greenhouse review to the original I posted several years ago.
📝Free guide to eliminate overwhelm in the garden: embracingharve...
👁️ 🎥 Related Videos:
Original Outsunny Review: • Review of Outsunny Gre...
Garden Playlist:
👉Subscribe to my Channel: / embracingharvest
🙋Say hi on social:
Instagram: / embracingharvest
Facebook: / embracingharvest
Have you tried a greenhouse kit before? I'd love to hear about your experiences.
Yes Mam I have two of them. Just need to do some supporting to these cheap greenhouses. My tomato house is now going on 6 years old.
Thank you for the information. I have been thinking about this greenhouse, but the price and your videos have let me know how strong it is. Thanks again.
Pieces of 18-24" re bar pounded into the ground work well to hold it in place. They can be slid into the bottoms of the poles, or attached to them. It also helps keep the proper spacing for the greenhouse so the zippers work properly. Think of this like a semi permanent tent. Would you expect a tent to hold up to high winds without taking precautions?
Next time you get one, get a can of expanding foam and a drill, then fill the metal tubes with the foam.
Sorry to hear your green house collapsed in the strong winds . i watched your review video and noticed that you didn't bury the flap ? instead you tucked it inside and put cinder blocks on it.. the flap needs to be buried so the wind cant get under it.. just a little advice for next time . mine is doing well , if you do get another one ? a helpful tip is to buy some white foam tape and line the top of the frame with it , This protects the cover from degrading when the galvanised frame heats up in the full sunlight .. Keep up the good work . G
Great advice, thanks Gary. I'm looking into a different greenhouse now but those are excellent tips for anyone else thinking of getting an Outsunny. Thanks for sharing :)
We modified our Outsunny. Put in landscape timbers in ground on corners and sides 2 ft deep and attached to inside frame to anchor it. Ours has withstood 80 mph wind gusts. 3 years now no problems. Go the extra mile and anchor it.
Always coat the zippers with a bit of petroleum jelly. I picked up a double pack of clear lip gloss sticks and rubbed that on the zipper. Works like a charm and cheap!
ALWAYS bury the edge of the cover well & even bank the outside soil up a bit against the cover! Another good practice is to fill 4 plastic buckets with concrete & insert 3 feet of galvanised wire about an 1/8th of an inch diameter with a good few twists on the bottom & set it in the concrete, When the concrete has set, dig 4 holes in the ground, one at each corner of the polytunnel & bury the buckets or just the concrete mold from the buckets, firm the ground back well & attach the galvanised wire to the bottom of the frame of the poly tunnel by wrapping it around the metal tube & then twisting the wire around itself to secure it. NEVER LEAVE ANY GAP FOR WIND TO GET INSIDE BECAUSE YOUR POLYTUNNEL WILL BEHAVE LIKE A PARACHUTE & TRY TO TAKE OFF!
Ive seen durable carports fall apart due to high winds. Like many others mentioned you need to reinforce the frame with lumber.
Sometimes all you need is a couple of new metal poles(sometimes wood, 2x4s, 2x6s) to reinforce with the greenhouse frame(will add weightto hold down as well). You should always stake or use something to hold down your greenhouse. When I was doing research on their hoophouses very large majority are only for year round use. Their ment to extend your growing season w/ little to no snow. Not so much to be left up in feburary. I mean $130 for a 10x11x7 steel frame with a green UV protective greenhouse cover. Its definitely worth it for a few extra bucks spent to secure it. Hope all goes well one your next season
Thank you for the update. I have a very large roll of strapping which I will use to make it more secure. I also have some hard aluminum pipe from an old carport so I can assist the cheaper structure. I plan to have one end but flush right up against the house hoping that might offer more support. Thank YOU !
I've have the small 3' x 6' tent...it works for the money. On one windy day it went from my yard to my front lawn. In a nutshell, I ended up building my own from PVC. It's much sturdier with 2' spacing and wood reinforcement. A bit more money of course but well worth it in the end.
We have a Outsunny 10x20 Greenhouse....if you reinforce the frame at the bottom all the way around with 2x6 treatment lumber & on the vertical poles with 2x4s it will stable it up pretty good. Another thing you can do is hammer 3/4 inch rear through the 2x6s to hold it down in high winds.
Its 1/2 Inch tubing so it needs reinforcement it is what it is, but it can be customized. We paid $205.00 for ours.
We will have a video up on ours soon.
QUESTION: if I'm doing a ground based garden, can one of these be 'remote' ... I can take it off in the summer and put it back up in the winter!
We had one. It grew plants wonderfully. Wind was it's downfall. It was shredded after 6 months. Part of the frame was damaged.
Bought another fabric cover. It lasted 3 weeks. Wind collapsed the frame this time, which ripped the fabric.
Outsunny do a version with thicker galvanised steel tubing.
But these tunnels are designed for the flaps to be buried to make it secure, it won’t last without doing that. I know some people on windy sites also zig zag some ropes over the top, tethered to the ground in a few places to make it a lot more secure too
I have the same green house and I put the lip on the outside and buried the plastic with some gravel. Its been over a your and so far so good.
I have one of those for 2 years now, had no problem so far
Great info and easy to digest. Very hard to concentrate, though! So beautiful. Going to check out the assembly video and put mine up. Thanks for the heads up!
Lol sly guy
Buy putting PVC pipe inside the frame rails of these kits , you will prevent ANY & ALL bending of the frame. Just take a frame piece with you to home depot or lowes , find the size you need and measure, that's it.
I built my greenhouse out of 2x4 lumber on 2ft. centers with greenhouse plastic. I've had numerous 60+MPH winds over 6 years with no structure or cover problems. I've always wondered why more people don't build with wood. If I want to modify or attach anything to it it's easier than working with metal support.
Hey Jeff, that's awesome that you were able to build your own greenhouse! I'm not quite that handy 😆 so I'm still on the hunt for a good greenhouse for my new house.
This is very good to know, I was considering buying one but maybe I need thicker metal. I was wondering how thick it was.
These type of polytunnel greenhouses are so cheap they are not complete from the store to tolerate much weather anyway. You have to anchor them to the ground with ground anchors and poles and tie the frame to them, and you have to bury the cover so the wind doesn't get a hold. Cheap tunnels can stand for years like that, you only have to replace the cover when it's worn out. The ones I've seen are probably slightly more expensive though, the Outsunny is definitely very cheap.
Glad you got some useful info from my experience with this greenhouse! I only expected to have it for 2 winters, until we moved, so I was sad to see it didn't even last that long. Even at a lower price point, I think a product should last at least that long of the box. Thanks for reaching out. Let me know what you end up getting!
Sorry to hear your polytunnel collapsed.
I saw a UK video where during assembly, they enhanced its strength by using 1m stakes put into the ground about 30 to 40cm deep, and attached to the upright poles of the polytunnel. The video showed it during a storm and all was good.
Another modification would be support ropes over the curved top, and secured to the ground.
Plus burying the 20cm flaps into the ground.
Good luck with the new polytunnel. Looking forward to your next update.
Any chance you have that video link? Thanks in advance
Strange what some people expect. Not sure where you live and your weather patterns. An inexpensive enclosure made of thin walled framing and polythene/plastic or weaved material covering (tarp) will only work in areas where moderate/extreme conditions are not found. Get a motorbike cover it with a thin frame and cover the frame in plastic, drive down the road at 30/40 mph see how far you get before it has dissapeared. I live in Albany New York and most winters you will here of people whos "hard top" gazebos have collapsed under snow load, had limbs of trees flattened their cars. It isnt unusual to hear of garages that have stood for 40/50 years having roofs caved in due to snow load. Sometimes you buy a product and, work out, if it lasts three years you've had a good return.
Great review, thank you!
I had it last year it died this winter the metal is cheap and thin my green house cave in so I decided to upgrade to harbor freight green house
Sorry to hear that! How is it going with the harbor freight? Do you see a significant improvement?
Yes Canadian!!
I bought a 6' x 8' Outsunny greenhouse and we put lots of landscape stakes around the base. It made it through a bad wind storm and then we had a much less windy day a week later it collapsed. Most of the plastic connectors broke and I have been unable to find out how to contact the company to get more connectors. It didn't even make it 6 months. I'm very disappointed with it.
Thanks for sharing your experience Mary. I like that they're trying to offer a low cost alternative to a traditional greenhouse for winter gardening, but it needs to last the winter! Have you tried anything else since?
@@EmbracingHarvest I've finally found out how to reach then. They responded once but nothing in the last few weeks.
I'm looking at the harbor freight is selling. I saw a video on how to reinforce it that looks feasible.
Thank you for the tips....
Glad you found them helpful!
Do you think opening the windows could have helped?
Not really. I think you’d have to do some structural improvements in order to see it hold up in high winds, it depends on your DIY skills... which I’m definitely lacking🤣
theae need to be attached to a wooden base us, a greenhouse on a raised bed
thanks for the tip. How is the outer cover? last long?
For the price? 👍🏻
Solid like
what about the cover? Does it hold up to the weather conditions or did it deteriorate?
I had no issues with the cover at all. In fact I thought about keeping the cover in case I got a better frame, but that sounded like too much effort 😆
I had no issues with the cover at all. In fact I thought about keeping the cover in case I got a better frame, but that sounded like too much effort 😆
@@EmbracingHarvest thanks. I've had bad experiences with polytunnel covers so I appreaciate you taking the time to answer.
Watch hydroponics done easy. He modified one of the same brand. He so cool
thanks for the tip!
How did it do in the snow and what was the temp in the green house
The snow wasn't an issue for me, but we don't get crazy amounts of snow where I live. The few times it snowed more than a foot or so, I swept it off with a broom or shovel and didn't have any issues. The wind was the only issue I had. As for the temps, I never checked, but it was definitely warm enough to grow when everything outside was frozen! Are you thinking of buying this model?
live in a area with that kind of wind if you could’ve afforded you should’ve bought a better greenhouse not $150 one looks like you’re just hard up to make a video maybe you should just do a little dance or something😊😊
Can't hear you.
these are garbage don't buy didn't even last one year for me
Thanks for your feedback. It's helpful for those considering whether they should by one. What caused it to break?
@@EmbracingHarvest first snow fall of the year, I live in British Columbia, just got a tiny bit of snow and it completely got destroyed will film and post a video of it! Loved this green house up till now :( wish I knew it wouldn't have lasted a tiny bit of snow, I would have took the cover off.