Hi, great video! I was surprised to hear you say, "December 1st", after you twisted that beautiful Bonnie ripe tomatoe off the vine! So, I reminded the video and I thought, Wow! If an individual can grow tomatoes during the Winter in a good greenhouse like the commercialize folks, "go for it and do it! Thanks for the information!
My wife is thinking about starting a bread ministry here so she was excited about that part. We have a coworker who makes his flour fresh from the berries. I never thought about it until he said so. He said there's a definite difference in the taste of the bread.
I really like your shelving! I'm in zone 6b and have a Palram greenhouse. I've had it 6 years and have been using a large steel shelving unit but I really want to do something different. It will have to be a fall project now because it is getting crammed full of seed trays already for my summer garden. I just have to wait until Memorial day now to get everything out of there 😂
Hello. You kindly offered questions so am curious if you have more pictures of the shelves being built or perhaps plans your husband drew up. We love what y’all did.
I don't have any other pictures of construction. Those were taken before we realized anyone else would be interested. No plans, he just got some ideas from other videos and did it by trial and error. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
How are your tomatoes pollinated? This is great design. I’m appreciating the video very much thank you! I just bought one and trying to figure out the shelving. I would love to put mine up on timber like you have.
Bonjour! J’ai la même en polycarbonate depuis 25 ans! Pour le prix, j’ai décidé de conserver la structure et d’acheter des panneaux. Oui, la porte coulissante est sa plus grande faiblesse…
The winter strip that came with the green house that you’d put along the left side of the door is a piece of junk. It strips off slowly from the top. How did you remedy that?
How much does it cost to run the heater and the fan 24/7 for a month? I had a heater like that before and the wires inside of it melted from running it 24/7 in an rental basement without heat installed and it became a serious electrical hazard. Trying to figure out how to heat a greenhouse though. How did people do this before electricity? ;D
We run our home completely off solar so I couldn't calculate a cost for you on that. I have the heater set to a timer so it turns off during the day. This is on the southern side of my house so once the sun shows up it gets plenty warm in the greenhouse, no matter the outside temp. Not sure all the ways they would heat before electricity was available, but I know Charles Dowding uses a compost pile to heat his. Look up those videos. We have plans to build a larger greenhouse across the southern side of our house. It will have a brick wall on the house for a heat sink and we can also crack a living room window to share woodstove heat when needed. Night would be the only "dangerous" time. As long as we could keep it around 40 and above I'd be happy. We would plant accordingly. You can also put additional hoops and coverings over crops inside the green house (see Elliot Coleman) to add more insulation. And as a fall back, we would run a little heater in there to keep things above freezing (planning to have some dwarf citrus trees). I've seen others online put small woodstoves inside their greenhouses. Hazard is always in the cards.
@@Boringcountrylife That would be nice to just plug into solar. I can't afford solar panels or electricity. **smh** I agree about the hazard part. I was thinking I should just get a wood stove and I have seen how people use candles. Even electric heaters are sketchy, I had one for a house I lived in and I discovered that the wires inside melted when I was looking inside it to see why it stopped working. Gardening starts out so easy, just a seed in the dirt, but then suddenly you are dumping thousands into a money pit hoping to finally get to the point where it pays off.
Gardening can be a small or large project for sure. We haven't viewed solar or gardening through the lens of "when will it pay itself off", any more than someone would ask when their car will pay itself off... it's always sucking up more money for running and maintenance. We do consider the long-term, non-monetary benefits of growing our own food and decide how much of our income we want to invest in those benefits. We have also found that little upgrades here and there over the years have helped us to improve our production while also freeing up our time.
@Joyful Heart Joyful Home they produce more heat than the chicken lights and are apparently better overall for heat. That being said if you get one they do not produce light so check that they are producing heat before needed.
Hi, great video! I was surprised to hear you say, "December 1st", after you twisted that beautiful Bonnie ripe tomatoe off the vine! So, I reminded the video and I thought, Wow! If an individual can grow tomatoes during the Winter in a good greenhouse like the commercialize folks, "go for it and do it! Thanks for the information!
Yes, I think I started the plants in early summer. It was a nice treat having fresh tomatoes at home so late in the year.
Good job husband! I admire your work.
I’m so moving my tomatoes into my greenhouse now. 😂
Awesome! I love it! I love the slats on the shelves. Thank you for a great video.
You're welcome!
Thank you for sharing. It gives me an idea of what will and won't work for our greenhouse. Cheers!
You're welcome!
My wife is thinking about starting a bread ministry here so she was excited about that part. We have a coworker who makes his flour fresh from the berries. I never thought about it until he said so. He said there's a definite difference in the taste of the bread.
Yes, it is more work, but once you taste freshly ground it is worth it
I.m in 7b. Thanks for showing the Harbor freight greenhouse. Its going down to 37 Wed. night and rain most all weekend.
We keeping hearing possibilities of big snow for the end of next week. My kids are hopeful.
I really like your shelving! I'm in zone 6b and have a Palram greenhouse. I've had it 6 years and have been using a large steel shelving unit but I really want to do something different. It will have to be a fall project now because it is getting crammed full of seed trays already for my summer garden. I just have to wait until Memorial day now to get everything out of there 😂
The greenhouse's busy season!
Nice garden👍👍
Thank you
Hello. You kindly offered questions so am curious if you have more pictures of the shelves being built or perhaps plans your husband drew up. We love what y’all did.
I don't have any other pictures of construction. Those were taken before we realized anyone else would be interested. No plans, he just got some ideas from other videos and did it by trial and error. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
How are your tomatoes pollinated? This is great design. I’m appreciating the video very much thank you! I just bought one and trying to figure out the shelving. I would love to put mine up on timber like you have.
I tap the stems with the flowers on them to jostle them and I have a fan always on. That's enough to pollinate them.
@@Boringcountrylife Ooh, that’s fantastic! Too easy!
Bonjour! J’ai la même en polycarbonate depuis 25 ans! Pour le prix, j’ai décidé de conserver la structure et d’acheter des panneaux. Oui, la porte coulissante est sa plus grande faiblesse…
Love the design, I cant find the video from Childers and Company on the shelving, do you have a link?
ua-cam.com/video/HrHJYzoviLw/v-deo.html
Hope that works
@@Boringcountrylife awesome thank you!
The winter strip that came with the green house that you’d put along the left side of the door is a piece of junk. It strips off slowly from the top. How did you remedy that?
Ours still looks okay. We did have to screw a piece of trim under the door frame to keep the door on it's track.
How much does it cost to run the heater and the fan 24/7 for a month? I had a heater like that before and the wires inside of it melted from running it 24/7 in an rental basement without heat installed and it became a serious electrical hazard. Trying to figure out how to heat a greenhouse though. How did people do this before electricity? ;D
We run our home completely off solar so I couldn't calculate a cost for you on that. I have the heater set to a timer so it turns off during the day. This is on the southern side of my house so once the sun shows up it gets plenty warm in the greenhouse, no matter the outside temp.
Not sure all the ways they would heat before electricity was available, but I know Charles Dowding uses a compost pile to heat his. Look up those videos. We have plans to build a larger greenhouse across the southern side of our house. It will have a brick wall on the house for a heat sink and we can also crack a living room window to share woodstove heat when needed. Night would be the only "dangerous" time. As long as we could keep it around 40 and above I'd be happy. We would plant accordingly. You can also put additional hoops and coverings over crops inside the green house (see Elliot Coleman) to add more insulation. And as a fall back, we would run a little heater in there to keep things above freezing (planning to have some dwarf citrus trees). I've seen others online put small woodstoves inside their greenhouses. Hazard is always in the cards.
@@Boringcountrylife That would be nice to just plug into solar. I can't afford solar panels or electricity. **smh** I agree about the hazard part. I was thinking I should just get a wood stove and I have seen how people use candles. Even electric heaters are sketchy, I had one for a house I lived in and I discovered that the wires inside melted when I was looking inside it to see why it stopped working. Gardening starts out so easy, just a seed in the dirt, but then suddenly you are dumping thousands into a money pit hoping to finally get to the point where it pays off.
Gardening can be a small or large project for sure. We haven't viewed solar or gardening through the lens of "when will it pay itself off", any more than someone would ask when their car will pay itself off... it's always sucking up more money for running and maintenance. We do consider the long-term, non-monetary benefits of growing our own food and decide how much of our income we want to invest in those benefits. We have also found that little upgrades here and there over the years have helped us to improve our production while also freeing up our time.
I love the shelves! What hardiness zone r you guys in?
We are in zone 7a, that's a correction to saying 7b in the video. Closer to the mountains, so cooler than 7b which is more costal.
What are the wood dimensions for the base?
We used 10" boards and the perimeter is 6'x8'.
@@Boringcountrylife 2x10s?
Yes, pressure treated 2x10's. It gained us a few more inches in height.
@Boringcountrylife thanks again, just got mine completed a few days ago
Congrats! I'm still using mine this year. It's doing it's job.
Use a ceramic heat emitter
Thanks! Will look into that.
@Joyful Heart Joyful Home they produce more heat than the chicken lights and are apparently better overall for heat. That being said if you get one they do not produce light so check that they are producing heat before needed.