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How would that happen when the sun isn't shining?

@@liveinagreenhouse during the day I’d expect it to hit at least mid 80s. But I also don’t know where you’re located. I also see you have lots of trees around the house, so that makes a little more sense.

Northwest Washington state, United States. Although this year the spring was sunnier and drier than normal, it usually is cloudy or raining 9 months of the year here. Which is why I wanted the greenhouse but didn't add auxialliary heat - for protection from the rain, not to have a Mediterranean climate. Sunny days in March and September the greenhouse can get to the mid/upper 70s but the sun doesn't go above the trees to the south for much of the day. Also, I don't want to get to 80 degrees so open the ridge vents to exhaust the heat if it got much warmer than 75.

They are! The shelter estimates this one is about 2 yrs old but she's as energetic as a kitten. And a great hunter!

I don't know what the effect would be of having an opaque and insulated roof. Most of the year the sun is low enough to shine through the side walls so it should be enough light and heat except during the height of summer. However, for heat and humidity control, the ridge vents are open pretty much 7x24 from mid-spring to late fall. So that's a pretty large gap along the entire length of the greenhouse. Your glamping tent may not have that issue. How do plan to vent heat and humidity with a solid/tent roof? Yeah, I wish I had a different septic system but it was installed by the previous owners and it would have cost too much time and money to dig it up and install a different system. Sidewalls are 12'

@liveinagreenhouse I saw a few videos about piping air underground but I may just install conventional greenhouse fans on the north sidewall to pull warm air out. Maybe for winter get a roll up insulated blanket for the walls that I can drop at night and roll up in the morning. The continuously open vents in the summer are normal but my controversial theory is maybe it works too well for letting in light and make the walls taller by a couple feet and roof insulated. I'm a year of saving to start the project but I've got the land. Keep up the updates!

Second year made much progress on everything and it has been better living here. But it was still a lot of work getting things set up and maintained. Looking forward to year 3 where more stuff is established so I can spend more time enjoying.

Awesome! Thank you for subscribing. It would be great to be able to have a studio inside the greenhouse too. I lived in a few places in LP and think there are places in MI where this could work well but my recommendation is actually a walipini rather than a ground level greenhouse. With the frigid temps, especially with wind chill in MI, the walipini benefits from having more of the structure below ground/less exposure to the wind, plus the extra contact with the earth temperatures.

Although I do accept some government inspection, I think this guy was a bit too rigid. I'm glad it's over without too much added cost.

They are very beautiful animals that I enjoy watching through the greenhouse walls. Not while eating my garden :)

Quite familiar with no till farming and regenerative farming. Quite familiar with practices to build good soil. Distinguish between knowing what needs to be done vs the time, money, and energy to do everything at once. While one can immediately become no till by stopping tilling, the benefits of no till are not immediate. Results from regenerative farming practices are not immediate. And it takes time to build good soil. Especially inside a greenhouse where every environmental factor has to be introduced and balanced. I avoid chemical use and as a national expert on hazardous waste-derived fertilizer (google Waliser fertilizer law), I disagree with the proposal of zero fertilizer but am very selective about which fertilizer I use.

Thank you, Lynne. I appreciate your support!

Thank you for providing a timestamp. I took a poll last year and by far most people wanted to see the greenhouse, not the house. But I do the walkaround in the same order every month so feel free to skip to near the end if you're only interested in the house.

Thanks for joining and for the kind words. I'm on an island near Anacortes. Got the peach tree idea from a video I watched many years ago by a commercial grower who had a peach tree and grapes as his shade. Last year and this year it hasn't been so many hot days. The problem has been so few rainy days. This year the rainwater tanks were dry for about 3 weeks so I was drawing water out of the pool to water inside the greenhouse.

Hi Alan, thanks for following along and commenting! Steel countertops are probably not a good choice where they would get direct sun because of the blinding reflection. Works in my space because the window facing south is small and when the sun is passing that window it shines across the sink so not reflecting into view anywhere standing in the kitchen. Also the way the livingroom juts out it blocks the sun from shining directly into that window except in the morning. If, however, your kitchen windows face only east or north, and/or skylights are on a east or north-facing pitch, then they might be a good choice. UP or LP?

​@@liveinagreenhouse Most likely the lower peninsula. Right now I don't have land, but looking in places near Grand Rapids where my parents are. Still considering lots of options. Holland, Charlevoix. Colorado, and Bend Oregon region as also still not excluded. Still many years away.

I still have family in Bay City, Tawas, and West Branch. Charlevoix is beautiful but that lake effect - wow. I was a ski bum for many years and skied Mt Batchelor many times in winter and summer and almost moved to Bend in the 1980s. A greenhouse enclosed home would work well in Bend due to light powdery snow and lots of sun in the winter. Winters inside the greenhouse would probably be more like in the videos from Sweden than mine where winters are often cloudy and/or raining so not much solar gain.

@@liveinagreenhouse Interesting. I'm not familiar with the city names. RE: Winters in Michigan. Holland has a lot of greenhouses in the area. I didn't have the time to stop and ask questions but did have a chance to talk to a few people who have built in the area. The impression I get is the building code inspectors are less likely to approve anything that isn't a "traditional build" the closer you get to that city. Another building option styles I'm looking at are barn-dominiums, which have been built in the next country over. If I could combine the POSTFRAME building style with a greenhouse that would be ideal. But it seems a lot will depend on the local building inspectors.

Thanks and welcome! Love Vermont both summer and winter.

Welcome and thanks for joining! I used to visit a friend in Syracuse/Fayetteville area so I'm familiar with your hot muggy summers (but love the little ice cream places everywhere!) I think something like this could work in your area because the greenhouse will be engineered for the snow load and wind shear. The key to heat and humidity control will be going overboard with size, quantity, location, and length of air-to-ground tubes. And windows high up to exhaust the hot air.

You're right! There's a firm in Europe that has done most of the greenhouse-enclosed or greenhouse-attached buildings in Europe but for the US I had to figure out much of this myself. Lot of time and lot of risk. Which is why I do these videos and longer articles on my blog.

Hi Erik, Thank you for continuing to follow and comment! I did a lot of research on every greenhouse-enclosed home I could find in the world while I was designing mine and found in the US only 1 in Hawaii where they built walls inside a greenhouse with roll up sides and a 1 room shed (no bathroom) inside a hightunnel in Alaska. I could have gotten a construction loan for the house without the greenhouse but would not have been able to refi that into a mortgage with the greenhouse in place so would have ended up in the same place - having to pay off the contruction loan as a lump sum.

Thanks for subbing!

Thanks! Welcome aboard!

Copy & paste Milton's comment for me. But from Illinois, USA.

Welcome and thank you for joining. In more extreme colder climates I'd recommend a walpini instead of a ground-level greenhouse. Most of the concepts are the same except the walipini, being partially buried, provides more temperature buffer.

Me too! Except when they jump on me at night when I'm sleeping. That was a bit too creepy.

Thank you for visiting, I hope you will subscribe if you haven't already. There is a link to my blog in the description of every video where you'll find more information about insects, humidity, and many other topics. Pollinators are able to get in and out through doors on each end of the greenhouse, awning windows down low and ridge vents that run the entire 60' length of the roof. That said, I select self-pollinating plants as much as I can. There is also almost always a breeze inside the greenhouse during the growing season so I plant multiple plants of a variety close together for (hopefully) wind pollination. Humidity inside the house is low. I show humidity readings near the end in many videos and on the blog.

@@liveinagreenhouse thank you so much for your response🤗 Amazing work! It's so amazing that this works!!

Pine straw isn't really a thing in this area but I've been trying to get the local tree company to drop a load or 2 of wood chips.

@@liveinagreenhouse I think it's something about the acidity in pine that repels weeds also. It's some piney turf like grass that never seems to have weeds too.. Looks awesome too

Thank you for the kind words and suggestions. You've given me ideas for future video and to cover on my blog. Episode 15 explains 1 big reason I can't dig to retrofit pipes now. I could not dig, literally, 10' from the greenhouse in any direction where there is not an obstruction - waste pipes, water pipes, electric supply, internet, other buildings, rain tanks, retaining wall, property line. They run north-south and east-west. That's why I consider it one of the biggest mistakes to not do it during construction.

Thank you for the kind words and welcome to the journey!

Thank you for the reminder. Interesting that frogs were a major theme last year. This year is more about deer.

My pleasure!

Welcome!! Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for the kind words. I can't speak to hail since we hardly ever have any hail and when we do it is really small. I do expect the roof panels to yellow over time and need to be replaced but it will be significantly less than a standard house roof. Since the greenhouse protects the house I do not expect to ever have to do maintenance on the house exterior like paint or roof.

I didn't know that. I picked the largest bulb/stem the other day to try grilling it as I'd seen in a video but it wasn't ripe enough. The core was still very hard and dense. I love using fennel seed in spaghetti sauce so hoping to get some seeds.

@@liveinagreenhouse when soft,they are not good 😊

The night of the lightning storm was less than 1" that was about 1,300 gallons. Yesterday and day before were about 2.5" and after watering was still about 2,400 gallons left! Yea!

All the gardeners on the island were doing a happy dance this week!

I was very new to greenhouses when I moved in and had never had a problem with soil at any of my homes previously so did not test the soil before planting. I did have it lab tested toward the end of the season and the only problem was almost zero nitrogen. I got different soil before this year's planting and this year the plants have done great for fertility. Still working out other challenges

You are so welcome

Less than 1" on the rain gauge but about 1,300 gallons.

It really was sort of scary in the greenhouse it was so loud it gave the impression of being under a freight train. I ended up going into the house but left the doors open so I experienced the awe of the storm from the security of the house. The house is well insulated so if I'd closed the doors and windows I still would have heard the heaviest rain but it would not have been too loud.

Very!

Yeah, I love the sound of rain on the roof. At the heaviest part of the downpour it was so loud I was actually surprised to be a little scared. Being directly under what sounded like thunder got my heart pounding.

Got about a week's worth of water! Yippee!

Yea!! About 1/2" so far and new forecast shows rain the rest of today and tomorrow.

It's on the list. The very long list of things that should be done.

Thank you for watching. I think no greenhouse would do well against a tornado but even this polycarb greenhouse is holding up well to storms here and (smaller) tree branches and pine cones.

I'd purchased the pump the first time I needed to empty the pond to patch the leak. Now I'm glad it was already on hand.