Arkopia Greenhouse - Plant Tour with Jess - What's Growing? - March 12 & Getting Busy
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2023
- Jessica takes you on a tour of everything we've got growing in the Greenhouse. Things start taking off as the days get a bit longer in March.
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Thank you for the tour Jess, learning a lot from you and Dean!!
So funny about the frog. Thanks for sharing
Lookin good!
I just found your UA-cam channel. We live outside of Moose Jaw and love the year-round gardening you are doing. Such a variety of things you are growing. Amazing. You have inspired me to get my seeds in the soil quickly. Thanks.
you guys are awesome, keep up the Great Work!!!
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I love this tour Jess. I’m just getting my dome setup and will be my first year. I enjoy hearing about the variety you are growing. You guys rock.
Thank you. All the best with your season. 🙂✌️
Amazing!
I’m a 5 hr drive north of you in Ile-a-la Crosse SK. We don’t have a passive greenhouse, but I’ve been working on retro fitting the one we have. It’s great to see people waking up and sharing what they know.
If you are interested, I have a fig variety that has a large breba crop.
We are in the BC peace region. The wife wants the passive green house for her citrus trees to thrive this far north
He inspired lots of Canadians to build a passive greenhouse.
How awesome to have such an abundance! You did it!
What a great complement for you! Now whenever so see her I’m going to think “there’s Tits McGee” 😂
You have an amazing setup -
Love, love, love it!!! I live just oitside of Melville and contemplating how to extend the growing season . Your setup gives me possiblities ❤
Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy watching what’s going on in your awesome greenhouse
Looking forward to Jess doing a few recipe-videos w/the greenhouse produce. The full cycle.
Will do. Have a 1/2 video of the sour dough bread making for month, but kids are insane. Trying. 😂
Really enjoying the plants walk through…plants are not my favourite things but having such a knowledgeable plant person to get greenhouse requirements from…such a great team you both make.
It sounds like there might be a future idea to make temperate zones in the green house?
you guys just rock!
this greenhouse is sooo good.
I try for the 2nd years more challenging this time. I'm impressed about your green house guys!
Great to see the green house and the business growing!
Thanks for the tour. I LOVE your greenhouse
Wonderful Video thank you 🥰
The Eucalyptus can grow into a big tree. If you Top them and force them to bush instead of grow vertically you should be able to keep them under control. Cool video. Thanks!
Good tip. They are out of control.
Should grow papaya and mountain papaya. Those are essentially the weeds of fruits which are prolific. If those don't do well I guess we have a baseline for how well the greenhouse does. Since the stem of them is hollow you can actually slash the trunk and force it to grow lower down so it doesn't get too tall, air layer it near the top when it gets too tall and replant, just chop to allow it to regrow from the sideshoots or just stagger plants so you always have new ones coming online to replace the old ones that got too tall.
I think seeing the bounty of fruit from those will be a big crowd pleaser.
Other stuff like a dwarf mulberry in a big pot, white sapote, tamarillo and cherimoya will probably do well. Basically subtropical stuff.
Thanks for reminding me. I have seen great success from other greenhouse growers Papaya. I’ll have to track one down right away. 👍✌️
Another Awesome video. thank you. this chanel is so uplifting and informative. Thank you both for the update in the greenhouse.
You guys might like some "salmonberries". Let me know if you'd like some seeds, I'd be happy to send you some. The seeds can remain viable for up to a century, by some accounts. They grow all along the West coast from California up to Alaska.
That would be really cool, and we’d love to take you up on a couple seeds. If you want to shoot us an email at arkopia@hotmail.com that’d be great. 🙂
I grew up in northern Manitoba so I can especially appreciate how you are able to grow year round in Saskatchewan. We live in a city so space is limited, but we are thinking about a greenhouse in our backyard so I'll be checking out your other videos. You guys are inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Wow that's fantastic! Thank you for the tour -- I could 'almost' smell the growth!
We need a greenhouse :)
Thanks Jess
Great share Jess, you guys need another one ....watch the opening sequence of Logan's run! Jess you should reach out to "gardening in Canada - Ashley". She'd be stoked with your set-up in person.
We are buddies. Just need to make a video. 😂
Little indoor pond made with proper clay would help hydrate insects for their journeys back home after germinating your greenhouse.
Consider planting the citrus trees in ground. The fruits are high value crop. Once established you could be harvesting 100’s of citrus. Just make sure your citrus are on the dwarf for semi dwarf rootstock.
Will do thank you!
@@ArkopiaUA-cam I consider your greenhouse a Mediterranean climate (vs. Tropical) since your temp can dip to single digit. Trees you can plant: citrus, fig, pomegranate, olive, pistachio. You can also grow eggplants and peppers. These vegetables are perennials and love heat.
@@samMTL514 I had to pull most of our peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes due to whitefly and aphids this winter but hopefully I can keep the bugs under control from now on
@@ArkopiaUA-cam for pepper & eggplants, in the fall, I remove all the leaves and trim just after the first “Y” branch. Store in cold dark place, workshop. In March, I bring them in in front window. They start leafing out. I do something similar for figs in pots.
I’m not aware of anyone growing pistachio tree in Canada. I think you have a setup that can make this happens if you want to experiment.
For food, it is interesting the Mediterranian food (figs and artichokes) are doing very well. Maybe if you wanted to up food production, you follow what Mediterranean folks plant (Turkey, Italy, etc.). I think they seed all year round. The tropicals are surviving but not necessarily thriving. I live one province over, I find this really inspirational, what you are doing.
Thanks. Yes, maybe Mediterranean everything is the way to go. 🙏✌️
Thanks for the plant tour! This is such a dream! Have you tried growing avocado?
Tried. Failed with avocados. Will try again.
Excellent video. A lot of good ideas. I have some of the same plants in my ARK but it's not as large. I'll try to get a video of a tour of our plants as well.
And yes, what is the mushroom looking thing? It's awesome
I think the mushroom thing you mentioned is just a metal decoration. 👍
Wow - stopped by a few times , I really get a kick out of the name of your channel - this walk through is amazing, this represents a lot of work, from the making and building of the greenhouse, to the results inside of this video.
One question,
for clarification, when you state degrees, - is this in Fahrenheit or Celsius
Arkopia - Perfect Ark. 👍. We typically use Celsius. When saying 30 degrees, we mean Celsius. ✌️
Hi greenhouse looks great , lots of different plants ,exotic fruit to cold crops. Is there anything that you can’t grow or has died ? Anything you are going to try to grow again ?
Can’t keep a mango alive, and avocados have trouble. 👍
I would like to see if plantain would grow in a greenhouse or pots
Right on 😃
Do banana trees produce fruit more than once? Living in completely different environment here in Las Vegas has its challenges growing things without bolting. Our broccoli overwintered fine and still produces as of today though.
The “mother” banana will produce a big clump of bananas, then you cut down the mother and let the biggest pup grow. Once a year harvest, and one harvest per plant. So I understand. 😂
Denmark first
Thank you for the wonderful video. Do you know if rhubarb would grows in a passive solar greenhouse?
Haven’t tried it. Our big patch outside is one of our hardiest plants, and it also freezes well. Maybe we’ll do a greenhouse test for the heck of it. ✌️
Love that mushroom looking thingy.. what's that? She never stopped to talk about it 😢
Might have been a metal decoration? If I’m thinking of the right thing. ✌️
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@3:38 i watched it again...got it, thank you 🥰
so, do you all grow your regular north american veggies outside during the spring/summer/fall? Doesn't seem like you have much for regular veggies growing in the green house....
Yes we grow the carrots,beans,corn,potatoes etc outside. Anything that stores well is an outside crop!
Every time someone says "it's impossible, you cant do that here" I think of Arkopia
There is NO such thing as CANT.
Stubbornness is a quality trait. 🙏✌️👍😂
@@ArkopiaUA-cam Haha yes. And I've got it in spades :)
Ouch, I see lots of Powdery Mildew hanging around on some of the plants you showed. Are you not worried about that spreading? What measures do you take to control that issue?
Just curious as to how you got an ice cream banana plant? I would love to have one. I'm growing figs, citrus, banana, an olive tree, coffee and pitaya in my house right now. They're all doing surprisingly well.
Our local greenhouse happened to have one in stock. I’m sure if you asked your local greenhouse they could order one in for you!
@@ArkopiaUA-cam I'll try! Thank you.
What kind of plant is that at minute mark 3:37? Looks like some sort of giant orange mushroom with a palm planted in the same pot?
A metal decoration. 😂👍
@@ArkopiaUA-cam Ah, looked a little suspicious to be growing there. Pretty cool looking though.
2 questions...what's the name of the plant, that you said if you have no dentist and why do you give the onions a haircut and what kind of onion is it.
So you keep bees , butterflies in there to pollinate?
There are some mason bees, but we hand pollinate in winter.
@@ArkopiaUA-cam you guys should get butterflies! That would be so sweet!
where did you find your ice cream banana? ive been looking for a waile and havent been able to find any
A local greenhouse had one. You could also ask a local retail greenhouse if they can bring one in for you.
@@ArkopiaUA-cam I have and no one can find them. Do you know the name of that greenhouse?
Maybe you could try to grow peanuts :)
What about papaya? I love papayas.
Got some seeds
How about mangoes?
They don’t like it in there.
@@ArkopiaUA-cam Too bad! They’re the best!
No Palm trees you need one at least.
I gotta be careful. Some of these citrus trees are going to get huge and take up all the space over time. Need a bigger greenhouse. 🤪😂
How do you deal with pollination?
Little paint brush.
Ok so no bees in the greenhouse…all done by hand?
@@jojomacdowall5276 The odd mason bee in there in winter, but hand pollinating for 6 months. Summer it’s like outside.
Awesome greenhouse but take the fruit off the olives and let the plant grow😊
Thanks so much. You all kept us busy that’s for sure. ✌️