Growing Our Food In The Winter | A Winter Greenhouse Tour & What Seeds We Are Planting In January
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Time to get planting for the 2021 growing season! We're starting some of our seeds in our winter garden greenhouse, and starting some in our seed starting area inside the house. Dave goes over some of the seeds we start very early for growing our food in northern Ontario.
We heat the greenhouse with a combination of wood and electric heat right now. With night time lows in the -20s, we can't risk losing our plants to the cold winter nights in the greenhouse.
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I’ve been playing with a fermented cayenne sauce as well, also from homegrown peppers. Any chance we can get a YT video showing your process?
Can do. It'll be a few months though. But we'll put one together.
Just dropped that Fermented Hot Pepper sauce recipe/video. Cheers!
@@Wilderstead perfect timing! I’ve got my last batch of hot peppers to harvest from the garden!
@@CoachJeremy great! We had an amazing pepper year here. Cheers!
That wireless thermometer is is a nice addition to your setup. Fermented hot sauce sounds intriguing. Good luck with the growing.
Fingers crossed!
And I thought we were the only ones lucky enough to have a butterfly in January. It's been around for a week buzzing us upstairs. Putting our seed order together today. Our greenhouse was our trial run but a dead elm came down on it in October. I'm milling lumber for the next few weeks to have ready for the building season and some will be for greenhouse ver. 2.0 . Bigger and better.
Sorry to hear that! Hopefully greenhouse #2 stands longer than that!
I love that you're planting already!! I gotta get going on mine!!
You should! The sooner the better dude!
Hello from Zone 5, USA. You have a great setup! We are all about growing our own food, even in winter. We just harvested some radishes and lettuce from our indoor garden. Love Baker Creek seeds. Great idea to germinate your seeds in multiple locations. Thanks for sharing!
Very cool!
As always it’s nice to see my grand-goats and you guys of course!
As I was watching. I made some Rice Krispies Squares.
Coming over to help me eat them? whoops you can’t.
We need to STAY AT HOME..
Another good video, the lavender plant you gave me last year did very well.
Fingers cross it will come up this summer.
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We miss ya, Mum! Hopefully this spring you and dad can come up to visit again. Maybe you should just move up here with us!
You guys are awesome.
Cheers Leonidas !
Love watching your videos- wonderful vlogs. Get to know so so many new things ❤️❤️❤️
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I love your channel. Great ideas.
Thanks Sheryl!
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Looking good! I love your greenhouse. Can't wait to build one 😍
You won’t regret it!
Hey Dave thanks for the video man. I really didn't know that you could even grow all throughout the year. I thought winter was outta the question...pretty cool setup you have in the with the wood stove..I'll keep that in mind when I finally get our farm to the point of building a greenhouse. For now I'll start my seeds in the house and go from there. I just got my seed delivery the other day, got my trays, got my rack...I just needs my lights and I'm good to go. I just need to figure out when to start and which seeds...I'll have to study the info on all the seed pack, but I do plan on saving lots of seeds at the end this year so I'll need tp buy less for the following year. Love this video bud, Chad.
No problem Chad! Growing in winter has its challenges. It's possible though.
Over the next few weeks, we'll add videos as we start seeds. So it should give you a decent idea of when to start various things. Or at least an idea of when we start them. If you are intent on saving seed from your crops, make sure you are buying heirloom seed that *should* produce seed true to their parents. Cheers bud!
Very informative video thanks
As I'm watching this I hope you have a video of you harvesting your seeds!
There are a few videos that have saving seeds in them, but not one single seed saving video. Good idea!
very nice video. I would say spiritually healing!
Agreed!
Thanks Andei! Planting seeds is always full of hope and happiness!
haven't tried as of yet, but saw some other homesteaders using hay bales, then activate them with rabbit poo to generate heat to grow seedlings on to keep them warm. I have overwintered kale and collard greens, seen others do it with carrots and other veggies, they won't grow but if you had enough of them could continue harvesting fresh veggies all winter in a greenhouse, there's tonnes of other cold weather plants too that will preserve all winter in the ground ..... that way you don't have to bother preserving, just leave in the ground, harvest when needed !
You certainly have some skills and knowledge.
Thanks Jim! I'm sure you'll get to sample some of the crops at some point!
Lovely you may need a couple of those blue barrels full of water in there would help with the heat.
Yeah, we've played with that a bit. The size of this greenhouse doesn't allow for enough water container to hold very much heat. We'd sacrifice a lot of usable space. For now we'll just stick with the woodstove and the heater. It's not much work at all really. We have plans for some different heating systems this spring. Cheers!
I saw a woman in Alaska put up bubble wrap she saved from packaging and put it up on side lights next to her door to insulate the windows but still let in light. It's a thought, may help on the windows closest to the seedlings. I do know the foiled bubble wrap insulation works great for lowering the temp in my dining room from a west facing windows in the summer. 😁
Good tips! Definitely works in a house, not sure it would work in the greenhouse though. We’ll stick to feeding the woodstove. Cheers Pam!
@@Wilderstead that does make sense..LOL!!
So excited about your greenhouse! It gives me hope and something to show the hubby "See! It can work in the north!" 😉 thanks!
Hah! That’s great to hear, Kristal!
It just glladdens my heart to see that you people can grow home gardens. My friends in Canada seem to be finding it difficult. I'll tell them to build a sort of greenhouse. Thanks for sharing.
A greenhouse definitely helps with growing gardens here, Lilian! Cheers!
Nice! 😎👍
Thanks! 👍
Can you ever have enough greenhouse space? Woohoo! Lavender, I tried to start some and it didn't grow, ticked me off, so I'm optimistic about this year. Hmm, anyway to run that warm air under your growing bed? Great Job! You are inspiration to get my butt in gear!
If you are able to find the ‘Munsted’ variety of lavender, it’s quite easy to germinate and grow. The tray I planted in the video has already sprouted! No way to heat those beds yet, but it’ll be an upgrade we do later this year. The soil is sitting between 10 and 20 degrees through the night, so not too bad for the cold season crops. Cheers, Eric!
Ohhh man, I'm amazed with the wood stove greenhouse, never even thought of doing something like that. Genius. Yeah, we had a buttefly in our basement yesterday, same pattern. I think it came out of the wood I'm bringin in. Keep rockin it!!!
Can't wait to finally have fresh produce in the greenhouse again Brother!!
Good jump start on the veggies, The greenhouse really looks nice.
Thanks Joey!
Your making me think I should suck it up and just put a little heater in my greenhouse
Try it out for a couple of nights and see what happens, Josh. You might be pleasantly surprised!
Love the greenhouse tour! And I love the toque. Made me laugh!
So much love for that toque!! LOL!
I do believe that is a Red Admiral Butterfly, their caterpillars eat Stinging nettle... Dave you are killing me here, I promised I wouldn't start any seeds till February!!!
Hahaha! More to plant this week. I’m also going to try winter sowing some wild leek and elderberry seeds we have here. See what happens with those. I’m waiting on a few potatoes to sprout so we can join you and the others with indoor potato growing fun, too!
@@Wilderstead oh, ya, I have some garlic seeds & bulbils to get out to the orchard...
No heat source in our greenhouse at the moment, so to the basement in the tents the seedlings grow! Definitely need my peppers!!
Definitely gotta have those peppers! Right now I'm more excited about the radish and the lettuce though LOL!
Love the videos y’all!!! I’d love to message you and ask a few questions. Let me know and keep up the good work!
Thanks Adam! There is an email address on our about page here on YT. You can also find us on instagram and facebook under Wilderstead if you'd like to message us there. Cheers, and thanks for watching!
Seems so early, even with a heated greenhouse... how many repots before they get in the ground, 3 or so ? Do you let them get rootbound before you move up ? So much work for you.
One repot on the seedlings before they go into the wild. If food wasn’t a lot of work, it wouldn’t be so expensive to buy 😉
Much earlier thaw where you are now then ?
This is about the time we start seeds every year. We plant different things every week or so based on when we plan to move then either into the gardens or into the hoop house.
Thanks for the greenhouse tour and seed starting walk through, I enjoyed it. How many seedlings will you be starting this year? 3, 4, 500? It doesn’t take long to get to those kinda numbers when your doing 36 at a time! I built an unheated hoophouse over the garden this past fall. I’m not sure how to maximize it potential this spring...
I would estimate we start between 400 and 500 plants. Possibly more. I’ve never counted all of them. We sell our extra seedlings in the spring.
@@Wilderstead thanks for the reply! :) In 2019 I did about 150 seedlings (just for my garden), in 2020 I did about 300 (and gave some away to friends and family). For 2021 I’m thinking of doing about the same scale as you. Do you mind if I ask how you go about selling your seedlings in the spring?
We just put the word out on our local Facebook groups. We share a list of what we have available. That’s all we’ve had to do to sell them all. If we nagar to get a second larger hoop house built this summer, we’ll likely open up on weekends or something to sell even more.
@@Wilderstead Thanks for the advice, if ever you find yourself in Niagara Region, send me a msg, I could show you my little operation here, and maybe we could seed or veggie swap. 😁
Sounds good to me!
Hello, am new to your channel =)
Welcome to the Wilderstead, Mary!
Where do they sell those starting trays?
You should be able to find these at most nurseries. Canadian Tire, TSC and Home Depot all carry them as well. We save and reuse ours for years.
I am in Wyoming 🥶🥶 zone 4b. By any chance would you guys sell me some of your seeds? Cayenne peppers sound interesting that you have been adapting them over the yrs 😍😍 as well as other varieties. Let me know 😬 i can pay for a couple seeds or send a envelope
Hi! We have a selection of seeds for sale on our website, wilderstead dot com
Burning wood for almost empty greenhouse in the middle of winter seems wasteful tbh
Nothing’s gonna grow in a frozen greenhouse, tbh...
@@Wildersteadjust saying it seems like an awful lot of trees you're burning down to keep a few veggies alive. There's more efficient greenhouse designs for winter growing, walapini for example.
We’ve explored many options for our greenhouse. Living on the Canadian Shield, a walapini is impossible. We have 12 inches of topsoil, then bedrock. We’re not too interested in blasting the area with dynamite to make that happen.
We harvest all of our wood from our property here. And it might surprise you that we haven’t taken down a single living tree here. Forest management is something that we take very seriously. All of our fire wood comes from dead standing or trees that have been downed in storms.
In a week or so, the greenhouse will be full of plants. Infact, many of these seeds have already germinated both in the house and in the greenhouse. As they germinate inside, the trays are moved out to the greenhouse where they’ll stay until they are either eaten or planted out in the spring.
We also treat it very much like a workshop, and an area outside to get warm when doing outdoor chores... everything is multipurpose here!
Have you looked into passive solar greenhouse? Just as easy to build as this one, and you got the wood for it! I built one like this in quebec and let me tell you even 12 inches make a lot of difference. We can keep tomatoes all year long in this one, but they don't produce as much obviously