Aha! Now I have a bunch more ?s regarding "greenhouses" but first, thank-you David for your sound advice! Indoors is prob the answer. Last yr I wanted to populate a small area w/paw paw trees. We actually are overrun w/paw paw trees...they're native and unpalatable to deer....so I thought to fill an area w/the these trees to protect some of my other seedlings in a few yrs. I sunk pots all over, applied window screen, weighed screen down w/rocks....pinning it down w/stakes is impossible around here because the ground is largely rock....and lo and behold...all 16 of these pots were wrenched out of the ground and the contents strewn far and wide....not a single paw paw seed was recovered. I'm guessing bear...it happened in Spring as temps were rising..*sigh*.
So inside is a better bet for me. Problem is I don't have space or $ for proper equipment BUT we do have a little "hut" that the kids play in and I was thinking of growing things in there...but my reservation is that it is maybe not mimicking natural conditions...i.e. heavy snowfall/moisture and temp fluctuations since it retains heat more effectively than outdoors though it is not artificially heated. (All of the species are native to Mid-Atlantic region so they require some degree of stratification). Let's say I soak seeds well before stratifying, I put them in ziplocks or pots in ziplocks and seal them for the couple of months I am gone (not able to water them) would this work? Dee, when you start plants in a greenhouse do you let them germinate as they would outside or do you control temp and go for early germination?
