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I've recently moved to an area with low rain and some vast temperature extremes, regularly over 100, often over 110 in the summer and down into the 20s, sometimes single digits in the winter. Is it even possible for me to build a green house that can grow year round here.  Allowing for a change in what I'm growing inside based on season but to be growing all year is the goal.
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I live in a high desert area and have those monumental temperature swings as well.  A sunken greenhouse or modified sunken greenhouse has served me well. One of my greenhouses I constructed beds slightly over three foot tall and three foot wide i placed bales of straw in the base of the beds and then good soil on top of the bales. Essentially using the beds as if they had a walk way dug below grade. We incorporated other trial experiments but I think the mass of the beds or sinking the beds was the most effective part of that particular greenhouse.
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