Sunken Greenhouse Project - NEW UPGRADES - 2024
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- The Sunken Greenhouse Project is back with some new upgrades. In the video I'll show a new mortared stone retaining wall, a new planting area, and two new ventilation upgrades that are operated by way of cables and some counter weights. .... and yes, I'll also talk about why I don't have it all planted out, which has become something of a theme with this project..... haha ;)
Thanks for watching and please let me know if you have any questions!
Joe
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I watched your greenhouse video years back and it inspired me. I now have 2 greenhouses and a plant business. Thanks for that original greenhouse video! Keep up the good work!
ditto
Now that is so awesome to hear! I build things like this for a couple reasons….First is simply because it’s something I’m interested in and think could be a benefit to our property…. But also, with regard to the videos, is to inspire others! So thank YOU for letting me know that!😊🙏
As usual near enough to perfect for me! The roof frame would be excellent for hanging dripper irrigation and mist sprays. 10/10 from me!
Thank you and that’s a great idea David!😊🙏
This is so lovely, and inpspiring.
Just a side note: since your tomatoes are ahead indoors, you could take cuttings from them, water them in the soil next to them, and when they sprout roots, transplant them when the outdoors is ready, and you can essentially double this year’s tomato crop 😉
smart
That’s a great tip…. Thank you!
Another wonderful project Joe.
Thank you Lee!
I like the way you only play music when you’re not talking. So many instructional type videos play background music while talking causing me to struggle to hear what they say. Keep up the good work!
That is the most beautiful greenhouse I've ever seen. I would happily LIVE in that greenhouse, lol.
Thank you so much! It’s been a labor of love…. And lots of trial and error too!🤪
All those cables and pulleys and levers reminded me of the boat transformation scene from Waterworld. Very cool. Well done!
Thank you very much! I saw it a long time ago but I’m pretty sure I remember that…..perhaps it’s was a subliminal motivation🤪
I mentioned this greenhouse on a different video of yours a while back. Delighted to get an update!!
I’m glad you did! Sometimes I get prompts like that I I’ll think “yeah, I haven’t touched on that in a while”. So thank you!
😊🙏
9:30
A Smart and Simple Pulley System 👍
Thank you!
That is a really slick green house, great job on the modifications.
Thank you kindly Tom!
after all the years of this greenhouse i still think its kewl as all git out and keeps gettin better and better
I appreciate that Bubba! I have really enjoyed this project, even if I end up changing, modifying or completely redoing parts of it🤪
Pulleys up the cool factor 10 X.
Thank you!
Thanks for the update.👍🏼
Thank you for checking it out John😊🙏
I can’t believe you started the sunken greenhouse years ago Joe 😮, another addition could be some shade curtains on pulleys for the summer months so your herbs don’t fry, like an Italian pergola if you know what I mean. Cheers for sharing Shell 🇦🇺
I definitely know what you mean! I’ve wanted to have a retractable shade panel or cloth with pulley guides so I can stretch it out when I need it and retract when not needed. So your spot on with your idea😊👍
The expense and time is crazy. A great workout for sure. Thanks for sharing it’s amazing
Hello Joe, that's so neat to see your new ideas & how you built your greenhouse. Your a creative man & looking forward to your other ventures you have locked in your mine.
Have a wonderful Easter & God bless,
Chris
Thank you very much Chris! I hope you have a wonderful Easter and my the Lord Bless you as well😊🙏
About time, been waiting years
Better late than never🤪
like it my favorite part is 8:41 PS have a wonderful day...
I do also like how the counterweight windows operate! 😊🙏
This is how I found you in the beginning.
That’s good to know Ronald! Perhaps I’m going to get it into more videos now that I’ve got a few more things done!😊🙏
I remember watching you build this a few years ago and was wondering what came of it after all this time.
It's one of my favorite builds on your channel!
I'm building one myself now, a couple feet bigger, I think, lol
Thanks for sharing, and as always, keep building 👍
That’s great to hear! And also great to hear you’re making sure to NOT make the biggest mistake of my build…. Which was not allowing enough interior space. Would love to hear how it comes along!😀👍
@homesteadonomics Our build site is a 40 ft square 10 ft deep and our greenhouse will be a 36x 36 ft square and we planed out having 10 4x8 aquaponics growbeds and a few smaller sized ones with a 1,200 gallon fish tank and 2 275 gallon sump tanks. I think our house build might wind up being a small tent after this monster build.
I am building 8ft gabions that are 1 to 2ft deep to hold the earth back, haven't decided just yet on the depth.
After I'm done with our leach field, I'm going full speed ahead on our "geothermal" greenhouse build and will share all of my mistakes on my channel.
@@ToddLarsen that sounds awesome! Just subbed you😊👍
I would remove the bottom leaves from the tomatoes you plan to keep in there.
Thank you for the tip….as a builder more than a gardener I often neglect some of the finer maintenance items like removing suckers, etc. 😊🙏
Awesome! I'm a little more than halfway through and about 3 weeks out from completing my passively cooled, insulated, and automatically controlled year-round greenhouse.
That sounds incredible! I should have had you design mine before I started…. Might have saved me hundreds of hours of changes here and there. And gotten it to pay for itself by now🤦♂️😂
@@homesteadonomics ha, we have yet to see if it actually works as intended. It will most certainly be warm enough in the winter, the real test will be in June July and August. Ill update you after the first heat wave if you like.
Looking good for next year.
Now it's time for the outside garden work.
Yep! Working on that right now too!
Thanx Joe!
You know we've been eagerly awaiting this update.
Did you "ditch" 🤣the cooling tube? -KJ
Yes, I have. I ran it around in my head for the last couple years and finally acknowledged what I always suspected. That the piping size, depth, material and length weren’t going to truly do what I needed them to do. So I capped the end of the run and will instead focus on building a shade structure that can be moved in place during those borderline times.
But atleast my hand digging skills were improved for those sections of pipe that will be buried in the ground for years to come 🤪
Very cool Joe!
These are great upgrades...awesome job :)
Thank you very much Gregory!
You should be so proud! This is awesome. Well-done!
Awesome upgrades Joe, thanks for the update! 😃👍🏼👊🏼
Thank you very much Fred!😊🙏
Fantastic, structure was built beautifully and definitely cost a lot in my country
Thank you! And yes, it it perhaps a bit overbuilt 🙏🤪
@@homesteadonomics yes but guess.. Could keep it last
Smarty pants! I need to go back and catch the other videos, because I am thinking of adding an underground greenhouse to my own homestead!
You definitely should! It’s a great concept and depending on where you live can really provide some great results! But one tip….. don’t do like me and make the growing space too little on the inside🤪
Looks great! You might try those automatic window openers that open based on the heat.
That’s what I’ve got on that north side of the roof and they work great. But I didn’t want to spend that on four windows and I kinda wanted to try the idea of the pulley and counter weights as fun little tinkering opportunity🤪
You really have some of the best videos in your genre. Great content sir. Thanks for sharing.
I very much appreciate that! I don’t do much of the fancy stuff like other videos do, but I try my best to make them relevant😊🙏
Simply marvelous final fit and finish!
The greenhouse looks amazing! :) Thanks for the update!
Thank you MMX3!
Hey howdy y'all!!! Wow Wow Wow Joe!!! Shout out to you!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 This is incredible!!! What an awesome surprise!!! Just WOW!!!
I was wondering about your green house too. Its beautiful and what a comeback! What cool windows and ingenuity! Just goes to show it never hurts to fall and rise up again. You the Phoenix man!!! This was a great video. Thank you! Happy harvest 😊 and God bless. Woot woot!!🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much!! It’s really be a labor of trial and error during this years long project. But I’m happy with what it’s come to at this point. May God Bless you too!
@@homesteadonomics Thanks. ☺️
I remember your last video on it and some even suggested converting it into a root cellar; but seeing it now its looking great! And reading the new suggestions in the comments below, you may very well have a diamond in the ruff.
Always good to see what you are up to. I appreciate the ingenuity of your work and the videos. Thanks for making them.
Thank you very much Mr Cefas! I appreciate that very much😊🙏
I love this greenhouse.. thank you for the updated tour! You did an amazing job!
Your work is truly inspirational and professional and is one of th very best on youtube!!!
Aww wow! Thank you so much for those kind words😊🙏. I’m probably in the Stone Age compared to the editing capabilities of a lot of channels but I try and give the best video I can with what I’ve got.
Thanks for the tour, I found your channel years ago watching you build that thing! Hope all is well with the family and what not.
Glad you liked it Derek! And good to know you this is the project that you originally found me on! Surely will be more to come on this as I’ve already started brainstorming my retractable shade cloth idea🤪
Thanks for Sharing Joe, solid build like all your projects and clever features.
Glad you like it! As you well know, I like to tinker and fiddle with these kinds of projects. Never really finishing them…haha…. But I’d like to think they are continuing to improve 🤪
❤.
Going to go back look at the build.
Starting to look like biosphere 3 out there.
Haha….just without the really weird and suspicious backstory that the biosphere has. I had a former coworker that worked out there part time and he had some really interesting insights to the formation of the project and initial missions. Wild stuff🤪
That's nice.
Thanks!
Hey brother,
Have you ever thought about using 40-60% shade cloth on top of the greenhouse? Maybe some way to pull it up on really hot days to keep the greenhouse a little cooler and some thing to pull it back down when you need it wormer inside.
Just a though.
God bless. 🤠👍
Hey Darryl,
That’s literally the next upgrade I’m going to make! Haha….your got good intuition!
Not sure if I’ll have a moveable panel with it or just some guides and stretch it out over when it’s needed and retract when not needed.
God Bless you too!
Joe
Mr. Joe you are clever. You must always have to do something, so you don't get bored. How is the camper coming along? Thank you for sharing and God Bless you and your family. 🥰👍👍👍👍👍(🌹🐞🦂🌵)
Thank you and God bless you too! The camper is just waiting for the aluminum siding. I haven’t had the chance due to wind. But I’m hoping sometime this coming week!
that look on your face upon operating your counter weighted end vents! Nice little house. I forget what state you are in...
Thanks for checking it out! I live in Arizona
You have outdone yourself on this project! You have built a beautiful greenhouse! You are a very out of box in your thinking of your project's.
Thank you so much John! You can say that again….haha…. Sometimes my out of the box thinking works out well. And sometimes it has me re-doing proejcts to meet the new ideas I have🤪
How will you trellis the beans, tomatoes, and cucumelons?
Probably add scrap pieces of livestock panels as needed. I’ve got lots of those pieces and it what I used for the tomatoes at the far end of the greenhouse.
God Bless!!
May God Bless you and your family too! 🙏😊
Very cool!!
Thank you😊🙏
Thanks for sharing, this is really cool 😁👍
Thank you for checking it out! It’s the one project I don’t revisit enough. But I’m very happy with this latest iteration and I see more coming on it😊🙏
I think when it comes to gardening showing a demonstration is a good idea. Your project does seem interesting, and I would have liked to watch how you built your greenhouse.
Currently I am trying to grow lettuce. I was able to make several plants sprout fairly quickly, but I don't remember what I did to make it sprout, so fast. I am still experimenting, so I can try to hopefully figure out what I did to make my lettuce sprout, so fast.
I am planning to grow my lettuce in a different way than you, and I am thinking about maybe using a greenhouse to grow my plants, but, for the time being I am going to try to grow my lettuce in a different way.
You can still watch all of the videos as there's a playlist.
Thanks for checking it out…. Alan is right (ferky123 commenting below). I have a playlist of the original build available to watch.
@@homesteadonomics Do you remember what the title of the video is, for the original build?
If I knew what you called your video then I can quickly find it!
Thanks for the tour Sir. Interesting way to control window pivots. What ever happened to the buried ventilation tube that was on the west wall ?
Wishing you and your family a blessed Easter weekend. Peace brother
Thank you!
As for the ‘cooling tube’ I had originally started on. That’s definitely on the “good idea but not properly implanted” idea that I’ll likely not do anything else with. I’ve called the other side of the pipe as I determined it to be undersized and not adequate for the purpose. But I am planning the additional shade project to have a moveable panel with shade cloth on it.
"So no rats or snakes can get in..."
Maybe so.. but scorpions are gonna love it!
j/k Joe.. looks great & I'm sure it will serve you well... 😅🔦🦂
Oh yeah…. We’ve got no shortage of scorpions😂
Thank you SlR ❤🐓
Thank you for checking it out😊🙏
Very COOL 👍👍
Thank you very much Dan!
Very very nice!
Thank you Loren!
Great job!
Thank you very much!
Love it. I wish you would do more gardening content
More to come! I definitely don’t do as much as I ought to…. But I’ve been thinking of making some changes to my main garden…. So that’ll mean you’ll likely got some more content 😉👍
Yea! 😊
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Joe great update. Just a maddening sweet 16 😢. Bear Down.
Thank you Henry! And yeah I just heard about it. Ehhhhhh yeah…. No bueno for our Cats😕
I love this! Still dreaming of moving to northern Arizona so I’d definitely want to build something similar.
Thank you! And glad to hear your looking at northern AZ! If I wasn’t in this area due to my wife’s family history, I’d for sure be somewhere in northern AZ😀👍
I really like the upgrades, especially the added ventilation and the concrete shelf, which I know will come in handy.
Excellent
Thank you!
Brother that's pretty slick... Keep it up brother
Thank you very much Dan!
Thanks for sharing the updates. The rock wall looking really good.
Do you have water going in through the door during monsoon season?
Glad you enjoyed it Tim! As for water…. Only a very little. Back about 3-4 years ago we got a few inches of rain over a day or two and there was about a little wet spot at the bottom of the stairs just inside the door. But no standing water at all.
Do you have any drainage system in place? I guess I have to watch the videos again. 😉
Looks like a dude who's super proud of his clever work and has a nice setup going for a little food growth :). I'd love to see you do even bigger food production stuff!
Love it well done
Thank you! 😊🙏
Amazing!
Thanks!
very smart.
Thank you!
You’re the man Joe. Back to the Trailer next time?
Just a thought but maybe run underground piping to come up into the greenhouse to get the cool air from underground to regulate the temperature. I have seen it in other UA-cam videos of trying to heat a cool the greenhouses with the underground temperatures staying constant. Just a thought of natural ac.
As usual 👍
Thank you! 😊🙏
nice job.
Thank you!
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Great project and a great job done! Are you harvesting the rain water from the greenhouse?
Thank you very much! Regarding rainwater…..in the original build I did. But after a hail storm that damaged several of the panels I never got around to re building the custom gutters I had made. But eventually 😀👍
Have you ever discussed offgrid solar systems?
No, I have not. I’m still on the grid for power. It’s always been a goal to be fully off grid. But my firefighter salary and the little I make from these videos won’t allow an investment like that. Unless I could get it sponsored or something like that.
Some areas offer rebates but u fortunately the people who coordinate those programs must not like us ‘rural folk’ as we always seem to be locked out of any of it 😉
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it's very nicely done, but seems kinda empty
Is there a way to stop rain water from coming in down the stairs, where I live the water would be waist deep in there…
could be a kiln in summer?
It sure could!
When it rains, I assume the rain runs inside from the steps. How does it drain and is flooding an issue for you?
No, flooding is not an issue. We do get a small bit of water just inside the door but never a puddle. Just little bits from the stairs. The rest of the ground is graded to slope away from the structure.
As for drainage that small amount that makes it way from the stairs eventually just soaks into the ground.
It does seem a bit foreign to folks in areas where ponds are common and water tables are high. But here, even if we do get a lot of rain during monsoons, eventually it will percolate into the ground and with very deep water tables it cannot build up to create that issue.
When you like building things more than you like using them. :)
Well, you’re not wrong in this specific case🤪
Next video... Coq au Vin
Well I haven’t don’t much on cooking….. but maybe!
Give this project into the hands of someone who will maximize the utility.
Yes I speak often about not making the best use of it. I normally have more in there….but the retaining wall and other projects got then best of my time. Hopefully you’ll find something that might be helpful to a project of your own.
@@homesteadonomics ,
I really like this concept
Being North of Edmonton Alberta Canada.
-20 to -50 celcius
ALL winter .
Thanks you for your work.
Could this be built in any hole in the ground, say an empty pool?
Sure could. There was a place in the Phoenix area several years ago that did just that…. They even kept water in the deep end and raised tilapia while gardening in the shallow end
I understand the sink in the ground greenhouse concept, but I'm a little confused. A) Why is one side of the roof not transparent - restricted sun access? B) ground provides stable temperatures, but since the walls are buried in the ground - Sun and light does not come through the walls. So the temperature that the Sun would have provided from the transparent walls above the ground would compensate for the temperature that the ground provides.? Is it wish wash?
Also most of the plants do like sunlight. Am I missing anything?
The original build had polycarbonate on both sides of the roof. But after a bad hail storm I had to replace many of the panels and decided that the north side did not need transparent panels since the seasons I use it, the sun is at an angle and it would have been unnecessary.
And to your other point…. The angle of the sun still hits almost all for the growing spaces directly at some point.
@@homesteadonomics Thank you for all clarifications. I'm thinking maybe a Greenhouse/raised beds hybrid 20% under the ground and 80% above.
why did you build a greenhouse in a hollow? does it help keep the temperature easier?
Yes as it allows the plants to be nearer to the earth and the part dug in serves as a heat sink to hold heat longer throughout the night.
Perhaps plants should be 4 feet deeper and 10 feet longer bed
That would certainly work. But I’ve boxed myself in terms of space…. Probably my biggest mistake in this whole project.
@@homesteadonomics ... Look on the bright side you can start seeds early in it on the other side and plant them outside later 🤗❤️🔥
What keeps it from filling up with water when it rains
Only a small bit of water comes in the stairs. The rest of the ground actually slopes away from the greenhouse. So usually just a small wet spot just inside the door is all we get
Whats this song? Its like faster Modest Mouse.
It’s Perpetual Transit by Walt Adams. I source it from Epidemic Sound.
Bad to the bone!!
Thank you Pete!
No,