I wish I had a greenhouse. My plants out on the deck are tired of being covered and uncovered. My tall lavender plants have a few broken stalks. I have sweet potato vines which I brought in the house along with my coleus plants.
My neighbor brought me a lavender sachet when I moved in, I definitely needed it that night and I also put it under my pillowcase. :)
I don't envy you. Until a couple of months ago I was out doing that everytime you were! But, my tomato plants made it into DECEMBER!!! Went to visit my daughter in Alabama for Christmas and they bit the dust then. Lavender is one of the plants that I have set by my lawn chair in the greenhouse. I sit there and rub the lavender leaves alone with a lemon verbena and rose scented geranium.
Yes, spring is nipping at everyone’s heels......LOL, first spelled it as heals, and that fits too, as spring will heal the soul.
How large is your deck? Is there a window that opens on to it?
You could have a greenhouse of sorts and of course it would be easy to nail uprights to it and cover it with plastic.
But I am attempting to plan one you can do yourself and take with you.....[now you are in trouble, when I start inventing]
A few years ago, they went crazy building all kinds of furniture and greenhouses out of plastic water pipe.
It comes in 10’ foot pieces. It is easy to put together with the right pipe glue and they sell all kinds of fittings, that will take it off at an angle.
What if you got some 5 gallon or larger buckets, filled with soil and rocks and planted your pipe in it?
now you have the upright, add the roof supports and a frame to join to the house. Or get it as close to the house as you can and use something to seal it, like the foamrubber mattress pad that Walmart sells and I like, and that wild cat kept peeing on, until I bought a new one and got the cat out of the house.
LOL, of course I did not throw it in the trash, it will make wonderful strips to seal several areas, if I ever catch a willing pair of hands, the smell is gone now, LOL, or at least until the next rain.
If you own the house, you could do it differently, but if it is a rental, the landlord may not want any nailing.
I see 6 or 8 buckets, holding the pipe/posts up and if it covers a window area, you will be amazed at the heat you will get in the winter from the sunshine warmed air in the greenhouse.
Not perfect, but it would work.
Google for: free plastic pipe greenhouse pattern
I know it will work, as the last time I went crazy planting seeds, all of a sudden all those pots that I had sat out there in the added on room, by the wood stove in the cold January nights, potting away, were now pots of plants, needing to be hardened off and more sunlight.
I had a deck that was a couple feet off the ground, and had a railing on 3 sides or half of it.
I strung heavy grape vine wire, crisscrossed across the top, went outside the railing and using a thin board, tacked the plastic drop cloths that Walmart then sold for $5.00 for a 20’ roll 10’ wide , up from the outside/bottom of the deck and over the wires, which did need 3 or 4 short sticks to prop up the middle of it.
Kept it closed with clothes pins, opened it when it needed air.
I had a 3 foot high greenhouse, about 6 foot wide and 15 or 20 foot long.
The plants loved it, grew well and it worked for an instant wild idea that passed thru my pea brain.
Ok, do I have to admit that it felt good, while I was in there crawling on hands and knees to water it.
with your house plants, you have a good start on this spring, now for a tub big enough to grow the large size sweet potatoes.
I am glad you have lavender for your pillow.