Growing Advice & Tips

In order to get the best results from your greenhouse, it is important to have a solid, leveled and squared foundation. With a secure and stable foundation, your greenhouse will have smoothly sliding doors, easy to open windows and a strong anchoring system, which is especially important in high wind zones. It also increases the lifespan of your greenhouse. Our unique and custom made greenhouse bases are undoubtedly the str...

Winter Gardenz And Good George Brewing Build The Future Of Post COVID-19 Dining New Zealand business Winter Gardenz has pulled off the impossible by constructing glasshouse dining structures overnight for The Good George Brewery in Wynyard Quarter, Auckland. Greenhouses helping to solve Level 2 challenges as food venues reopen By Brooke Hunter Miann's Chocolate Factory in Morningside, as well as Good George's North Wh...

After a long career in a service-based role, John Herrick was ready for a change of pace. With an engineering background and an entrepreneurial mindset, John set out to find an industry where he could inject some innovation, and he found his inspiration in the most unexpected place.While travelling around Europe, playing with the idea of selling rubbish bins, John settled down in Germany in anticipation of the beer fest. He visited a mate’s plac...

Greenhouse growing is a family affair! Many people ask us why they should even consider buying a greenhouse. Here are the top ten reasons our customers have shared with us.Let's you start the seeds you choose much earlier How much fun is it looking through your favourite seed catalog every year and finding something new and different. It may be a new variety of a flower, or a bigger, better tasting tomato. What can be more satisfying than wat...

What are Winter Gardenz greenhouses like in the wind?Very good. In fact, we'd go so far as to say they are the strongest greenhouses you will find in New Zealand. The are designed to withstand a constant wind speed of 120km/hr for up to 3-hours, and will survive gusts in excess of 150km/hr provided that are closed up (vents and doors shut and secured) and are sufficiently fixed to the ground. We recommend using our foundation mounting kits for a...