My geodome garden

[Magda Mildner]

Just want to share with You all, my little geodome garden in Poland.
Its 3 years, and Im really happy. 

[Dx G]

What a wonderful arrangement.  Many thanks for sharing this and posting photos.

Is it made from painted wood?  Do you have vents for air circulation at the bottom and top?

Dx G

[Ashok Mathur]

Dear Dx G

Having a vent at the top means that you are constantly losing hot air and the associated heat along with it . I thought the purpose of a hot house was to contain heat!

Avents at bottom are good as you are expelling g the cold air accumulated at the bottom.

Regards

Ashok

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[Dx G]

Ashok,
An enclosed space in the sun, especially with a light permeable
exterior, can quickly reach over 100F, especially under high light
intensity, even in winter. Same reason you don't want to lock a pet
or a child in a car in the hot sun to "just run in the store" for a
few minutes. In fact, it can be so extreme that even with powered
venting, a lot of greenhouses use "shading compound", an opaque
temporary paint that sticks to the exterior, or use various white and
mylar shade cloths. Unshaded enclosures with clear exteriors make
great solar dryers, but even those need to be managed to prevent
cooking the material instead of just drying it. Normally venting
regulates the temperature, drawing cool air from lower down, expelling
hot air out the top, much like a soffit/ridge system used to ventilate
attics. Typically the vents are thermostatically controlled to
maintain a set temperature. Unlike some people who generally believe
"if a little is good, more is better", this is not the case with heat
from "the greenhouse affect". Typically all this is taught in
greenhouse management training, as much of it is not intuitive to
everyone. In a lot of domes, the cupola windows provide an excellent
temperature control option.

Dx G

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 8:56 PM Ashok Mathur <ashokch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Dx G
> Having a vent at the top means that you are constantly losing hot air and the associated heat along with it . I thought the purpose of a hot house was to contain heat!
>
> Avents at bottom are good as you are expelling g the cold air accumulated at the bottom.
> Regards
>
> Ashok
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> On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 at 10:24 PM, Dx G <yipp...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What a wonderful arrangement. Many thanks for sharing this and posting photos.
>>
>> Is it made from painted wood? Do you have vents for air circulation at the bottom and top?
>>
>> Dx G
>>
>> On Monday, March 16, 2026 at 7:23:53 AM UTC-5 Magda Mildner wrote:
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>>>
>>> Just want to share with You all, my little geodome garden in Poland.
>>> Its 3 years, and Im really happy.
>>>
>>>
>>>

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[Magda Mildner]

It's painted wood and the cover is foil (6 seasons).

Ventilation - 2 separate windows on the top, and door only. 

Windows are manually open, so when it is really hot they are open. 
In Poland we can have -20C in winter, but also +35C bi summer.

When it is really hot in summer I use an electric ventilator for cooling. 

[Peter Watz]

Hi Magda.
What is the size/diameter of this one?
Would you've gone bigger back then if you know what you know now... ;-)

All the best from Norway.
Peter

[Magda Mildner]

Hi Peter 

It's 4m, for me it's ok.

I mean, manufacturer has 5m and 6m but there's only me and my daughter, so 4m is really reasonable. 

Last year we had really good season for tomatoes. This pot at the center - cucumbers - about 15 kg per season. 

Side pots - tomatoes, bell peppers and eggplants - really a lot. My daughter can't even see an eggplant now. Last green tomatoes harvest was at the of October. 

But in pots isn't only soil. 

I have pot garden and forest near by, I'm herbalist and forager 🙂 so always there is something to harvest. 

For me very important is snow and wind resistance. We have here strong wind called "halny", and if it's snowy winter... I think you know what I mean 😅

After 3 years it's really ok, before geodome I had standard greenhouse. Stainless steel (solid military tent), wood and foil. One day in April, 50cm of snow and ice and snow again, and rain. Construction disaster 🫣 

Now I don't need to worry. 

Greetings from the Polish mountains. 

Magda

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[pe...@watz.no]

Hi Magda.

Thank you for your elaborate reply!

Sounds like a good deal for your needs.

I wish you and your daugther all the best in the future! ;-)

Regards

Peter Watz

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