GroDomes: Lightweight, Portable Greenhouses

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Portable Greenhouses: The GroDome™

Shelter Systems' portable GroDome™ greenhouses provide controlled growing conditions your vegetables and flowers. The GroDome greenhouses are lightweight and freestanding so you can easily move them around your garden to improve the growing environment of different plants in different seasons. The portable GroDome greenhouses are easy to assemble--no tools are needed and they can be put up in 30 minutes,. You can use the portable GroDome greenhouse only when needed and move or take them down when not needed thereby freeing up more growing space. You will have plenty of room to work, store tools, build flats, hang potted plants, and care for mature plants in your GroDome greenhouse. Shelter Systems' greenhouses will shelter your plants from cold, rain, wind, frost, and birds. Your vegetables and flowers will thrive in your GroDome greenhouse.

Useful All Year
GroDome™ is portable, so it has many seasonal uses. In spring you can place the greenhouse in your yard where it will collect the most sun and heat for your seedlings. In the spring you can set the GroDome greenhouse over soil to warm it and plant right in the ground. At the same time, you can use the GroDome greenhouse as a traditional greenhouse to start seedlings in flats. Then you can move the greenhouse and warm the soil somewhere else in your garden and plant directly in the soil. In regions not hot enough to grow certain crops like melons, you can use the greenhouse to create the heat required to grow hot plants that require a hot summer. In fall you can set the GroDome greenhouse over tomatoes and peppers to prolong the harvest. In winter, you can put the greenhouse over a cactus garden to keep the rain off or put it over a fig tree or other cold-sensitive plants.

GroDome™ 20

Affordable
The GroDome uses a patented Geotensic™ structure and fasteners that make it possible for us to construct a greenhouse that is extremely strong for its weight and one that uses less material than other greenhouses. It is lightweight so its fairly inexpensive for us to UPS it to you. Shelter Systems' greenhouses are easy to take it down when you do not need them, say in the heat of the summer or the dark of the winter. Storing your greenhouse will both create more room in your garden to grow things and prolong the life of your greenhouse. Since you can move your greenhouse to different places in your garden you will not have the expense or trouble of replacing the soil in your greenhouse to avoid pathogens that will otherwise collect in soil after a few years.Your GroDome greenhouse will quickly repay its initial cost in the increased choice, quality and quantity of the plants you can grow.

Other Uses
Your GroDome greenhouse has many uses in and out of the garden. With your GroDome greenhouse you will have plenty of room to work, store tools, build flats, hang potted plants, and care for mature plants. Since your greenhouse will not leak you can use your greenhouse as a shed to keep tools and equipment dry. You can use it to store mulch, potting soil and fertilizers.

Sturdy Design
The GroDome's covering is made of Shelter Systems' superstrong, woven, translucent, ripstop greenhouse film, which lets 90% of the sunlight through (more than glass does). Our greenhouse cover was specifically designed for greenhouse use. It is treated with ultraviolet inhibitors, which protect it against sun exposure. It will last years of continuous use even the sunniest parts of the country. The greenhouse covering will not rot or mildew. The greenhouse's frame is constructed of strong, long-lasting PVC tubing. Patented Grip Clips join the GroDome's cover to the frame. Grip Clips provide greater strength than sewn seams or any type of grommet, because they do not puncture the cover. Each panel of the greenhouse is shingled over the next so that the greenhouse breathes, yet is completely leakproof! Shelter Systems' greenhouses are made from all the same high quality components that we use to manufacture our shelters and tents.

Up In 30 Minutes!
You will be pleased with how easily your GroDome greenhouse goes up in 30 minutes without tools. You simply insert interchangeable poles into connectors spaced evenly over the greenhouse cover. The poles bend slightly when inserted, which tightens the cover into a wind- and waterproof dynamic greenhouse. The greenhouse is freestanding so you can turn or move the greenhouse into any desired position. If for some reason, your GroDome greenhouse is not being used, just take out the poles, roll up the greenhouse, and store it in a closet or on a shelf.

Light and Fresh Air
The GroDome 14', 18', and 20' greenhouses each have four flap doors evenly spaced around the dome. The GroDome 8' and 11' greenhouses each have one door. The door coverings close automatically so you can go in or out quickly. There are no zippers to fumble with or break. For maximum ventilation the walls themselves can be rolled up. There is always plenty of light and fresh air in your GroDome greenhouse.

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Each GroDome greenhouse comes with poles, stakes, guylines, vent tubes, a detailed Instruction Manual and Shelter Systems Gardening Manual.

Accessories
Net Doors, Porches, Liners, etc.

GroDome™ 8
Transparent fabric is used in this photo to show the interior;
the actual greenhouse fabric used is shown in the above GroDome 20.

Be sure to look at our Bubble Dome™ Greenhouses which are taller forms of our GroDomes and our new Solar Shed™: Compact Greenhouse

GroDome 31 Greenhouse Diameter 30'x11' High, 706 sq', Weight 270lb. $2900 Shipping $360
GroDome 30 Greenhouse Diameter 30'x11' High, 706 sq', Weight 190lb. $1990 Shipping $200
GroDome 20 Greenhouse Diameter 20'x10' High, 314 sq', Weight 70 lb. $920 Shipping $75
GroDome 18 Greenhouse Diameter 18'x9' High, 254 sq', Weight 60 lb. $780 Shipping $75
GroDome 14 Greenhouse Diameter 14'x7' High, 154 sq', Weight 40 lb. $640 Shipping $55
GroDome 11 Greenhouse Diameter 11'x6'4" High, 95 sq', Weight 20 lb. $350 Shipping $45
GroDome 8 Greenhouse Diameter 8'x7'4" High, 50 sq', Weight 20 lb. $290 Shipping $45

Sizes: Drawings and tables comparing the dome and door and package sizes, shapes, weights, volumes, and square/cubic feet and meters of 8'er, 11'er, 14'er, 18'er, and 20'ers.

Note that the GD11 and GD8 are constructed using a different geometry that has less panels and only one door. You can see the shape of the GD11 near the bottom of the Archeology page. The 14, 18, or 20' greenhouses each have four doors. You get a lot more volume for your money as you go up in diameter. When you step inside the 18' greenhouse after just being in the 14' greenhouse, the 18' greenhouse feels twice as big. The 20' greenhouse feels twice the size of the 18' greenhouse. This is because the extra feet in diameter extends out in all directions creating a large increase in volume. Since the surface area of the covering does not increase as rapidly as the volume, the larger greenhouses are less expensive for the space you get.

Happy Customers: Tell about their experiences with Shelter Systems' domes. Photo rich.

"Thank you so much for my 14 foot greenhouse. I never thought it would be so
easy to assemble. It is a true work of art in my back yard. Keep up the
good work." Thanks, Steve Farrell

1 1/2-YEAR GUARANTEE. If for any reason you're not completely pleased with your purchase, return it in original, clean condition within 30 days of receipt for a full refund or exchange as you wish. All items in this catalog have a warranty against defects in materials and workmanship for 1 1/2 years. Should any product prove defective we will repair or replace it at no cost to you. Special Orders are not returnable. Read Snow and Wind Warnings.

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