Growing in a greenhouse for beginners
Вставка
- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- 1:35 Night Temps
3:02 Heating the Greenhouse
4:13 Plants response to sunlight
5:36 How much difference warmth makes
6:52 Rising temperature/ventilation
8:17 Day length matters
10:21 Relaxation
11:40 Enjoyment
My greenhouse came from Yoderbilt - yoderbilt.com/
(*links below contain affiliate links, which means if you click through and make a purchase, we will earn a commission at no extra cost to you.)
Want to see more?
Patreon Channel
journeywithjil...
My Products:
2023 Complete Garden Planner
journeywithjil...
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners Book: amzn.to/3TZeJux
Products I recommend:
Recommended Brands & Products page:
journeywithjil...
www.amazon.com...
Connect with Jill:
Sign up for Friday Emails: journeywithjil...
UA-cam Channel: youtube.com
The Beginner's Garden
Instagram: / thebeginnersgarden
Beginner's Garden Shortcut FB Group: / beginnersgarden
Link to Beginner's Garden Podcast past episodes: journeywithjil...
One of my greatest joys is in January when the wind is blowing, the rain or snow is pelting, but enough sun to keep it very comfortable, and I take a book out there with my two cats, who absolutely love it.
Keeping the mess out of the home is worth the cost!!
I feel exactly the same way with my greenhouse, its definitely my "happy place"
Even in winter, plants inside the greenhouse are protected from wind. The outside plants can be robbed of their heat through windchill factor.
Plants are not affected by wind chill, because they do not have sweat glands to shead internal heat.
@@OOTurok Windchill will dehydrate the plants faster and cause them to freeze faster than if they are only in cold still air without wind. I have had plants survive in sub freezing temps in my greenhouse that certainly would have been destroyed outside in the cold wind.
@@FrugalBuilding
You are lieing. That is in no way how the physics works.
In cold temperatures, plants are dormant & their stomates are closed, so there is zero gas exchange going on in the leaves, thus NO water is lost. Plus less water in the plant's tissues would make them less prone to freezing as there would be less water to freeze.
Plants do NOT loose heat from windchill.
The reason plants can survive colder temperatures in a cold frame, unheated greenhouse, or having some type of covering over them... is they are being protected from Dew Point.
Freezing temps cause the humidity in the atmosphere to freeze on the surfaces of any object the ice settles on. This ice further cools the suface.
By covering or sheltering plants from the outside cold air, you reduce the amount of frost that can settle directly on the plant.
Less frost = less heat that will be drawn away.
You can visually witness this phenomenon every time temps drop below freeing in the winter.
The understories of forests tend to be frost free, while adjacent open feilds are covered in ice.
@@OOTurok👆🤓
You’re so right that it is really hard to find info on greenhouse growing. My environment is extremely cold and I can’t even grow tomatoes at all, in the summer, without one. Consequently, I have a very well-insulated five-wall polycarb greenhouse but with intensity of the sunlight here it can get to 90 when it’s 20 outside, even with automatic vents. And yet I still heat it with thermal mass AND cover the crops right now with a hoop house & a blanket- inside the greenhouse! With all the differences between climates and types of greenhouses, I think gardeners just have to adapt what they can glean from multiple sources. It takes a huge amount of trial and error. But I love it. With three feet of snow on the ground I don’t think I could tolerate the weather otherwise.
What zone are you growing in? I’m 3a, learning about my greenhouse
@@marilyncox9453 I’m ostensibly in 4a, but on the north-facing side of a mountain valley in Montana, so I also have shorter days and altitude to contend with. Right now the snow does reflect back a great deal of light so that’s very helpful.
@@marilyncox9453 There is a greenhouse grower in Bozeman, MT with a UA-cam channel that you might find helpful, called Broken Ground.
Sounds like you are in Wyoming, describing my weather exactly… I need to get out and touch the dirt and make things grow but I can’t even find the ground yet…
Edit - oh in Montana, I was close
The only place I could fit my glasshouse was under a large deciduous tree - not ideal I thought, but actually it is great. My glasshouse never gets too hot and although it cuts the light down a bit, I can still ripen tomatoes etc. I keep the vents open all the time and only close the doors if it’s really windy. I never heat it, Monty Don calls it a cold greenhouse, which put it all in perspective for me. I grow all my seeds in my little shed next door with grow lights and a heating pad
Same here! I put my greenhouse under trees and it only gets morning sun. I’m so happy with my decision for the reasons you mentioned. Basically after 1pm the temp starts falling.
If you seal up the green house making it as air tight as possible with small vents at the top and put black stones on the walkways of the green house it'll absorb and radiate heat passively. That and minimal insulation on the wood would really help.
Thanks!
I moved to a small house (built for me!) Behind my daughter's last fall, and brought about 70 plants from across town (McMinnville, Oregon 8b) had the tender plants in the garage last year, on my son-in law's workbench 😂
He told me he'd assemble a greenhouse if i got one, so i ordered a kit 6x8' - and he pit it up this fall! I had him tuck it with his shed on the N, and a fence on the S so it's more protected, and brought my little bistro table and one chair in, plus those tender herbs, a citrus and perennials.
I am looking forward to some of the things you've mentioned!
Thank you SO much for putting out this video! I have a small heated greenhouse and have really struggled with the best way to use it. Similar to your observations, despite it being heated, the temperatures still swing VERY widely from as low as 36 degrees at night (outdoor night temp 15 degrees) to as high as 80 degrees during the day (even with shades up and outside temp at 30 degrees) - this temp swing is all within one day. Given these wide swings, I also have found it best to germinate seedlings indoors and then bring them into the green house once they are big enough. I also didn't know about hardening off going into the greenhouse so ended up killing a bunch of warm seasonseedlings last year! I found I didn't really need to harden off the cool season plants and I'm thinking this is because the sun is much lower and less intense throughout the winter season when I am sowing things like onions. I am intrigued by your grow light experience -- I wasn't sure so I had left the grow lights on all the time but I think I'll be trying what you suggested in your video and only supplementing. I would love to know how you figure out when to turn them on? Is it just when the sun goes down until about 10pm or so?
I have been looking online at Yoder greenhouses. I’m in Arkansas too and these are built in Arkansas. I absolutely love them. Hubby already said “ go for it”. I just might!
Oh hope you do they look Awesome
Wish they would deliver to Australia 🇦🇺 😉 😂
Thanks for the info. Im in zone 5a and recently acquired a free small(6x8) greenhouse. I’m trying to learn fro others on what to expect and your tips were useful.
We live in NWT, we are building our new planta greenhouse this is our first growing season
This was good info, I am preparing to build myself a greenhouse and I totally loved all of your tips
Thank you for this good basic information. Having just bought a large greenhouse and having no experience in using it, I found what you said was very helpful! Tony Haighway Shropshire, England.
Have you tried using maybe a solar powered fan in your green house? It will make ur seedlings stronger, will help with air flow and might hold down any excessive humidity
I haven’t but thank you for the suggestion!
I'm starting my first season doing this and got my greenhouse set up. I discovered a lot of the same stuff as you, it heats up very quickly and cools down just as fast once the sun goes down.
My seedlings are still very small. I'm still learning.
Thank you for sharing you knowledge
Thank you for your videos I am also from zone 7B and new to growing plants since finding your channel my yields and knowledge are improving.
Great video. I retired in Nov. 21 and the first project I completed was building my greenhouse. I wish I could have done it years ago.
Very informative video.
Greetings from West Cork, Ireland, from a Sheehy to a McSheehy. Our ancestors probably knew each other! I've got a sunroom that I'm using as a greenhouse and it allows me to have a continuous supply of salad greens growing in pots for most of the year. In the wintertime and early spring, it's fantastic to be able to watch plants growing when it's wet or blowing a gale outside. This year I started in mid-February and I'll probably try using grow lights for the winter just like you suggest. Great channel, by the way.
Nice to meet you! My husband and I both trace our ancestry to Ireland and we’d love to visit someday!
Thank you SO much!!! We are working on restoring an old greenhouse we built over 20 years ago and never really used it the way it's supposed to be used. It is 15 x 30. I want to use it the way you are using yours. I want the first 3rd of it on seed prep area as well as tables to put my seeds on after I get them started if it is warm enough. We are planning on getting a wood stove to heat ours when we need it. We are also going to make some raised beds for some things like Ginger and other things.
As soon as we get this one finished, (hopefully by the end of next week!!! fingers crossed), we are going to put up a much larger greenhouse to grow a lot of our regular garden vegetables. My goal in the up coming years is to grow enough plants to sell a lot of them at farmers markets.
I am super excited to use them both and learn as well. I really appreciate your video. It helped out a lot!! Thanks again! Oh PS. We live in Eastern Oklahoma, about 1 1/2 away from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Arkansas is such a beautiful state!
I found the same thing. I love my greenhouse as my escape place. My husband has created so many special things for my space. Tongue and groove end walls. Solar lights and special vents. He will tell people who stop by. Go look in the greenhouse she is always there.
Sounds like a great plan! I’m about an hour east of fort smith so I bet our climates are similar!
Thank you I live in Ky. Been doing it in basement for years just recently purchased a greenhouse and retired. Excited.
I am getting one asap.
Great information. Thanks so much. I have a simple cattle panel greenhouse and I grow in it all summer long. I am zone 6a. Although it does heats up in the summer I have full size doors on both ends and roll up sides. With all that ventilation I grow tomatoes, peppers, green beans and the like all summer long with great success. It makes a huge difference growing them in greenhouse because I can start them earlier in the spring, grow all summer long, and then have more produce well into the fall where otherwise I would not. I would love to have your greenhouse. Beautiful, but I bet if you could rig a door on the other end and open up your sides your greenhouse would be great for plants all summer.
Hi Jill, So much valuable information, thankyou! I’m somewhat of a beginner myself. What I’d like to know is when to start seedlings for peppers, tomatoes, flowers, etc.. I live in Nebraska. 🌽🥦🍅🐮🐷
Good info and tips, just build one. Thanks
Thank you for the information.
I have a vine plant(lily) and i had her in the greenhouse for about an hour and i went to check on her.... her beautiful leaves were drooping and she looks like shes gonna pass.
We're getting ready to put my seeds in the greenhouse i pray we get great results. We started with a small greenhouse, but big enough for tomatoes carrots, lettuce, zucchini i want to get strawberry seeds too.
Please pray that my plants will flourishing with beautiful healthy food.
Ty for this. We built a high tunnel and let me tell you…. It’s just a hot mess. Ready to just tear it down and walk away 😢.
I have an 8/12 cattle panel and use it all summer long. It does get. hot but if you have ventillation on both ends and roll up the sides you would be surprised how well the plants will do. I also have a shade cloth I started using last year and that also helped but I have grown all summer without issue even without it. I am in zone 6a. Don't give up!!
Hi I’m here in central Arkansas as well - Vilonia. And also have a Yoderbilt greenhouse! Where are you located ?
I’m in the Russellville area. Nice to meet you “neighbor!” :)
Do you have a video about making your own potting mix? I searched for it but can’t find one?
No, I don’t. I tried it that one time but it didn’t really do as well as Pro Mix so I went back to it.
I’m interested in a Yoder GH. I live in SW Missouri; do you think a shade cloth during the summer would help with heat? Thanks for this information. 👩🌾
I don’t, but I that’s an option. I still think in SW Missouri it will be challenging in the summer. I don’t really use mine then. (I am trying jalapeños this year.)
greenhouse price is quite high. For that much money I could buy vegetables starts for 10 years
I agree with your comment. $8k for a 12 x 16 greenhouse is way out of my budget. I'm planning to do one that's 16 x 36, but with poly film instead of the panels. At less than $3K for all the materials, I can live with having to replace the poly every 4 or 5 years.
@@jeff130 I built a 12x24 hoop tunnel for around $1000. Took a couple weekends. Used fence poles and a pole bender and covering with the same poly plastic. All of my greenhouse can be used for growing or as a seed starting location. These types of wood greenhouses you cant really grow in the ground much. Very wasteful.
Yes, price is high but, just a couple thoughts. A hobby can be expensive... boating, camping, ham radio, ECT.. with no financial benefit. Growing your own food can offset your grocery bill. There is also something to be said for providing for yourself. We have all seen empty shelves and prices get ridiculous. Lastly, I built a cattle panel hoop house for $600 in 2020. That was what I was willing to spend and the priority I gave the project. We all set our own priorities and have our own interests. I will live with my functional but not pretty hoop house and admire her pretty one❤
Depending on the price of lumber local to you and your skill level, a stick built GH can be had for not a terrible amount of money, I built my own, 10’x20’, 8’ side walls and 14’ in the center, 2x6 framing for walls and roof, with polycarbonate panels, everything was under 4k and I know it’s going to last, roof holds 2’ of snow without the slightest bit of bow. This year I’m adding cattle panels to make a floating “ceiling”/hanging trellis for my cucumbers and cherry tomatoes, snap peas and any other vine type plants. Will make harvest easier and spread the plants out for even more sun. Hang some snap together gutter inside along the walls and you can stack up smaller plants and herbs for even more growing space. If your limited on water supply, you can add gutters outside and catch rainwater in a IBC tote for watering, which holds roughly 275 gallons, a first flush system inline will help keep the water clean. A small solar powered fan on both ends of the GH will keep everything happier inside during the warmer months. You can do all of this for less than 8k easily and grow tonsss of food
I built my first greenhouse many years ago with recycled lumber and corrugated fiberglass. It cost less than $100. Not perfect, but worked well for a long time.