I'm in Glasgow and I grapped the side of a small plastic covered glowhouse and 2x2 polytunnel and left the roof thinking I needed more light. It's working alright but I will try now do what you've done for just a wee bit of extra heat. So glad to have found your channel, there needs to be more Scottish garden channels since we need more advice about all the humidity we deal with.
Hello from Ottawa, Canada where we get really cold weather over January & February. May I suggest two or three things for you to try for next year : 1) if you lift your floor pavers & place a layer of Styrofoam insulation sheets, it'll help keep your pavers dry in the winter; 2) have you ever looked into passive heating ? Basically you put jugs (painted black or a dark coloured) filled with water on your North wall. When the sun comes in from your South and/or East walls, the jugs will get warm & therefore throw the heat into your greenhouse. You can also use dark plastic containers but most use jugs that they use at home with laundry detergent, milk, etc.; 3) snow acts as a natural insulator so once you get a good amount, by packing the snow around the edges of your greenhouse, it'll at least keep more of that heat inside. Hope this helps for your idea journal. Thank you for your videos. Just love them. Take good care & stay safe.
My sistern in law, puts the tiny platic growhouses from aldi inside her greenhouse and germinates and grows winter seedling that way. Just thought I would mention in case people have this things and find the bubble wrap a bother like she does. She doesn't have a problem with leggy seedlings and does this method for starts instead of using growlights.
Love the profound comment on how it affected your relationship to the greenhouse. I totally get it! I much prefer my front garden to my back garden, even though logic says it should be the other way around. It's all personal experience.
Bubble wrap for me personally was a waste of time and effort, it was damp, some of my plants went mouldy. I defo won't be trying it again. Happy gardening.
I certainly understand your response to going out to the greenhouse less when you couldn’t see the plants and, hence, not get excited about it. I love that you shared this. Yes it is just as important as all the technical tips.
I totally agree with the ‘personal’ thing. Being in a happy place (the greenhouse), being able to see the birds, the trees etc is all part of the joy and time spent outside but if the view is blocked I would think it would feel a bit claustrophobic. Great video x
Yeah.. We understand minging here in Northern Ireland.. Haven't heard that in a while.. Brilliant, I really enjoy the advice and the content of your videos, waffling and all. 👌😊
Gardening is definitely a very personal experience for everyone. We are -21c today so I definitely understand cold. It feeds our souls to get to play in the dirt. I can’t wait to start my seeds. Have a great day. Bye from Canada
Yeah I saw a video of the hot water to snow trick this week from Toronto. You guys get it so so much colder than us. But I think there is definitely something different in the different amounts of moistures. I've noticed it more this year when we've had some of much colder weather, it's been dry and for some weird recent didn't feel as cold. But the days where it was warmer, around -1 or -2 but was wet... It felt much colder. I so don't understand weather 🤣🤣🤣
I use the same size bubble wrap on all my house windows, on the inside, it saves a significant amount of money on my winter heating bill. I leave a square foot here and there uncovered to see my yard.
Interesting experiment. Love your honesty. Most important is the statement about the bubble wrap affecting your relationship and enjoyment of the GH. If your not enjoying it then there is no point.
As a final note, my sistern in law swears by bubble wrapped spaces and growhouses inside greenhouses for bulbs in containers. The extra bit of heat always gets her planters bloooming early than any garden I've seen, but she does stab a few holes for ventilation in those covers just to let some humidity out and keep the bulbs healthy.
You are really growing on me. I love your energy so much. And you always make me laugh. If you call your greenhouse messy, you would have a heart attack if you saw my attic 🤣
Every time you or Kate gets silly I laugh out loud! Your information is great, I love the experiments and problem solving but those unexpected gags are delightful!
So glad I found your channel! I live in North East Oklahoma USA. Zone 7a. I was just thinking about using bubble wrap and after seeing this episode I believe I will skip the wrap. We have really mild winters here and can’t see spending more than I need to. I am looking into passive heat because we do get a lot of sunshine and using 55 gallon plastic drums painted black to soak up the heat during the day. My greenhouse in 10 foot by 12 foot. I also enjoyed the tour of you greenhouse. It is very organized. I loved it. Thank you again.
Very thorough in your results, including your personal observation of how not seeing the plants effected your desire to go out and check on them. Thanks
Eli that was SUCH a good video. I love your chatty nature so much, you are both fun and informative to watch. I have a brand new (very tiny) unheated greenhouse and have been thinking about ways to maybe raise the temperature without spending a lot of money, just so I could start seeds sooner. But I agree, the fact of the matter is we live in colder climates than lots of our UA-camr friends around the world who are in warmer places and can sow seeds now ... we just have to wait a bit longer than them until we can get going. I’m going to wait until March for my seed sowing and, really, we are still going to be able to have veg and annuals etc from seed, we just need to be patient and accept the fact that we can’t start everything just yet. I really appreciated all your trials, it was just what I have been wondering myself and my own tests concluded exactly the same, my greenhouse is only a couple of degrees warmer than outside during the day (unless it was very sunny) and mine too is often colder inside than it is outside, especially at night. It will soon be Spring and before long we will probably be saying our greenhouses are too hot 🤣🤣 thank you so much for a great video!
Thank you so much for such an honest review. My greenhouse is going up soon and these are all issues that we have discussed. Including how to prevent it becoming a storage area in the fall/winter and causing a massive cleanup in the spring!! Good to see that I am not the only one with these issues.
Minging is used quite often down south. I loved my bubble wrap and of two greenhouses and a polytunnel on the plot the one with bubble wrap is definitely the warmest. But i prefer being in the one I can see out of.
You have just answered my questions on whether it's worth bubble wrapping the whole greenhouse. I have 2 greenhouses, one I fully wrapped up and the other I only covered the overwintering geranium plants. The plants have survived in both greenhouses. So next winter I will only cover the plants at night.
I'm either in love or addicted.....either way I am going to try and ween my way off....hopefully Monty will be back on our screens soon :-) why oh why haven't the Beeb signed you up.
🤣🤣🤣 oh Geoff, I'm sure you're a lovely chap, but I think we need to get you some help 🤣🤣🤣 I'm not sure I'm the Beebs cup of tea... Not even Beechgrove 😜
Just watched & love your humour lol. I also don't bubble wrap the full greenhouse, I tend to do all the bottom lower panes & the roof section only, just to keep the lower heat from thermal transfer on the concrete floor. Like you, I need to see my plants. x
I’ve put up bubble wrap and had a small blower heater with a thermostat all winter. I didn’t but the expensive bubble wrap and spent about £1.50 per week on heating. My heater only kicks in if if drops below 3 degrees. It’s enough to keep the load of small seedlings and plants making it through the winter.
Yeah over wintering in a greenhouse is a very different experience if you have power. But I suppose that was the point, to highlight the differences and to show that you need to be aware of the full story before blindly following some strangers advice on the internet 🤣🤣🤣 The cost of your hearing might be interesting to some as one of the things I hear alotbis about how expensivempeople are finding it to run heating.
Hi Eli & Kate I've been binge watching a lot of your older post from the past couple of years and really enjoy your vlog. I live about 40 minutes from you so appreciate your input especially with the weather. I was considering the bubble wrap but after this episode I'll save myself some money and maybe buy some grow lights. I have purchased some ot the Quadgrows and hope to have the sucess you have had. Basil is my favourite too. Keep going with your vlogs. Love your sense of humour. Thank you for your enthusiasm to share
Thanks for your really honest conclusions about the bubble rap ....respect. :-) You've not lost out, if you don't try it you'll never know. I'm Learning tons thanks for your videos.
I’m thinking of doing similar in a section of polytunnel (to get some stuff planted out before the last frost) and your video answered a few of my concerns, thank you.
Another useful and informative video, thanks Eli! Cant wait to get my greenhouse up. I tried to overwinter things in cold frames, but found the mould thing a problem. We haven't had really cold winters for a good few years in Scotland eh, this one has come as a surprise! Never mind spring is just round the corner, happy days! Oh, liking the new intro, liked them all really. Take care guys!
Hey Lorraine I tell you what - to tide you over until it's up.... it might be worth grabbing a cuppa and sitting with these two playlists. That way you get to go through the journey with me when I got my greenhouse and see all the brilliant stuff to come and all the things to thinking about :) ...Setting up your new greenhouse: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4kYC4OV1J6vChfrGXnhKr5X.html ...Greenhouse gardening: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4mxGbs3hx2622MdqAVRPn0B.html
Hello from SW 🇨🇦, omg I thought I was the only one with fungus and damping off but your right the soil just doesn’t seem to be drying. I had heard and will try watering with camomile tea instead of water. Very frustrating for sure but hopefully the weather will warm up a bit more. I know Jessie from Plot 37 uses bubble wrap too. Well thanks for sharing your videos I look forward to seeing you updates. As always stay safe and stay gardening 🇨🇦✌️🌶🥕🥬💐🧑🌾
Lol nope it seems to be quite common. I'm not sure about the camomile tea making any difference. I haven't tried it but I have a home made camomile tea solution instead of wet wipes and I've seen that go mouldy if I forget about it. Be interesting to look into that further.
Ahead of the approaching winter, maybe you'd like to try using a popup grow house with shelves and removable cover inside the greenhouse, rather than the bubble wrap. I've found they provide a good amount of insulation and can be covered with an additional layer of bubble wrap for extra protection if the temperature plummets below zero - i.e. minus 5C for long periods. I've successfully overwintered gazinias and other non-hardy plants this way. Great video. I found the graph you displayed very helpful and interesting along with your thoughts and comments on living with the bubble wrap. I also agree with the statement about seeing the plants and them 'calling to you' as you look at them from in the house!
I think the feeling if living with bubble wrap is important for those us us with smallish gardens, the greenhouse is such a visible landmark that visually its really important. It sounds like you do something similar to me. I use propagators jn the greenhouse the way yiu use your plastic greenhouse, just togive that extra level of cover. I'm actually talking about it in tomorrow's video, more in terms of keeping the soil warm for seed germination rather than protecting less hardy plants but they are useful and a god send some winters 😀 Nice avatar 👌
This is exactly the point I'm at with my new greenhouse so this video is exactly what I needed to hear. Looks like shading might be more important if we ever get any sun, that is 🤦♂️😁
Just a quick point Eli, have you thought about using a couple of 100 hour candles in the greenhouse? I've used them for quite a while now and they do work, not by actually warming the place but just by keeping the temperature above freezing.
Love the new intro...the old one was good too...you do such a great job. I also enjoy the silliness! It’s difficult watching channels that just talk off topic but your videos are on topic with some silly real life Eli fun. Great analysis of the greenhouse. I’ve come to a similar determination for mine as well. Unless you plan to heat the house abs really try to grow all winter long I don’t think it is worth it. Taking it down will be a pain!! Great video!
this was helpful especially the charts. they clearly show wide swings in temps continued which to me, means the bubble wrap (alone) doesn't moderate the temperature swings. I do thnk (expensive) polycarbonite would "flatten" those swings.it's also possible encapsulated bubble wrap (sandwhiched between two panels) would work better; fan might help too. thanks bvry much for sharing your charts with all of us.
You’re more than welcome. You are right though, nothing other than having heating in there and good solid insulation prevents the peaks and drops. The temperature will peak in daytime when there is sunlight and drop at night once the sun sets. Unfortunately it’s the annoying thing about greenhouse marketing, they make it sound like it’s some sort of miracle but in truth, although great at making the best of the sunlight, they do have limitations that we need to learn to work with. This video is quite old now, since then I’ve stopped trying to change the temperatures in there in winter. It is what it is and instead I plant appropriately for the season, lots of hardy greens 😀
Considering what you said about the greenhouse warming up slower than the garden, I think for an experiment I will try putting some plant trays under my raised bed with plastic hoop covers on them and see if plants get a kick start once the weather warms, compared to the ones in the greenhouse.
This was really interesting I think like you the fact that I couldn’t see into the greenhouse would mean I would be less likely to want to go check on things on a daily basis and I hadn’t thought about this. I do have the potential to heat my greenhouse so that could make a difference and I now have to give this some thought so thank you lots to ponder over🙂
@@eliandkate it’s definitely something to think about and might mean I rethink the siting of my greenhouse when I get it however its a bit of a moot point at this time because the greenhouse I was getting I’ve been gazumped on😰 so back to the drawing board 😭 on a plus note my friend has a Rhino greenhouse and she thinks it’s brilliant so if I can’t get a 2nd hand one on budget this spring I may well just keep saving and get a Rhino for the Autumn 🤷🏻♀️
Thank you so much for this video. It's my first year with a greenhouse, so any tips and inspirations is def much appreciated. Hope you and yours have a great day :D
Glad it was helpful! It might be worth grabbing a cuppa and sitting with these two playlists. That way you get to go through the journey with me when I got my greenhouse and see all the brilliant stuff to come and all the things to thinking about :) Setting up your new greenhouse: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4kYC4OV1J6vChfrGXnhKr5X.html Greenhouse gardening: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4mxGbs3hx2622MdqAVRPn0B.html
Thanks for the excellent vid. I think I will try and find some pop up propagators that I can fold up and store during the summer or maybe make one from some plastic tubing and thick polythene. That way I can make it fit my staging as well. Hopefully that will keep the stuff I hope to grow warm enough.
Fascinating video Eli. I love love loved your conclusions at the end. It's a bit of a shame that it didn't work out as worthwhile for you after balancing everything up, but thank you so much for sharing all the useful insight and data for UA-cam! Such a great resource. The plan for next winter sounds great as well!
Thanks for this- it answered a lot of questions for me! I had not gone down the bubble wrap route myself, but I had some cheap pop-up “greenhouses” from Wilko, which I had used in lieu of a cold frame. I then decided to use them in the greenhouse for storing more sensitive plants/seedlings, like a sub-greenhouse, over the winter and it worked pretty well - not a huge difference but enough for my purposes. I may do this next year with the bubble wrap instead of the plain plastic sheets to see if this is better. So if you don’t want to wall off an area, of your greenhouse, you could try using bubble wrap on some racking. Just a thought! Anyone else tried this?
Thanks for all the great info - I'm currently building a greenhouse and you have been great to share some light on some subjects. I mention you in a video I'm releasing tonight. Thanks again. Look forward to more tips from you.
Hi Eli and Kate, Did I like your new intro?, Do I like your new subscribe bits ?, Yet another great video from Scotland, Well done Eli, I am raring to go and get some more seeds sown and I can tell you are too, Tomorrow NEW MONTH and maybe a start to sowing more, Ok, the answer to both the question ABSOLUTELY YES great, fantastic, well done on those two bIts of NEW to your channel, Take care and Brrrr stay warm.
Interesting to see the results of the bubble wrap. It’ll be interesting as well to compare the differences once you remove it, particularly if you’re thinking of doing that quite soon 👍
Your videos are so helpful and I'm slowly working my way through them (6am, cup of tea, get a few videos in before I start my day). I was never really interested in gardening but lockdown made me realise I needed to do something constructive and now I'm now absolutely loving it. A friend advised bubble wrapping the greenhouse which my hubby did for me but to be honest I'm not sure the effort and cost was worth it and some (not all) of the geraniums and fruit trees I left in there have gone mouldy but without it they may not have survived anyway. Especially loved the video about sterilising spent compost to reuse - I have thrown loads away, so bad! I am now thinking about quadgrow planters so may ask you about them separately.
Interesting conclusion. As you may be aware, I tried putting a mini plastic greenhouse wrapped in bubble wrap inside my bigger glass one and tried to heat that instead of warming the whole 8x14 space. However, every morning the plastic house was very wet on the walls, so I gave up and put everything into warming propagators instead. Think I lost quite a few chillis and peppers as they rotted. You need to get electricity in there! It’s not a big job, honestly. I think I’ll make an 8x2 heated bench for next year as I can use it for when seedlings come out of the vitapods.
I think more than ever I'm resolute to the fact putting heating in there is just a waste. For the sake of a handful of plants I really don't think I could justify it. 🙂 Back to my old routines I think
Love the madness and waffles lol This just come up on my home page to watch so thought I would…. And it’s funny that you said about being funny. It’s funny how Scotland is wet and humid but not just there…. If you can get a humidifier or humidity meter. As we got one as had mould in the bedroom, minging!!! And even here in southeast Kent… it’s ment to be the opposite weather to get what you get lol. But we need the dehumidifier on as can’t get it below 50% but without it on it’s between 70-87% so it does make a difference and the unit I have takes out 5L of water in 6-8 hours. Which is good and I know if it’s filling up and the meter says it’s like 50% I will turn it off and save electric but it most definitely has helped. You can get disposable dehumidifier boxes that you throw away or empty and recycle once full , that take the moisture out the air
Hello … Maybe you can hang some of those closet water absorbers (DampRid). I hang them in my basement to decrease moisture so it doesn’t get that awful mold smell. 🤔
Great video as always, liked the subtitles about "minging", not an issue for me I ken what this is ha! ha!, love the idea for the rolls of tape, I have similar in my shed. My greenhouse has been up for about a month, but nothing in it so far, trying to seal it all before putting things in, you mentioned water coming under the frame?, I have sealed my frame to the paving slabs with a good quality silicon sealer, but there was still water ingress, turned out it was coming from the top corners at the roof and running down, now sealed too. I'm in the process of running power to my one, just as an alternative, but this is just a bonus, only too happy to follow you in an unheated one, oh, and I do like your new flash intro.
This was great help. I was wondering if I should buy bubble wrap after watching one of my other gardeners. Jessie at plot #37. Watching g her made me look it up and I came across you. And I like listening to you. Because I think you are funny and informative. I see that this video is 10 months old so I hope you are still doing it. Thank you for helping.
Another fun and informative video. What is your winter temperature range? Do you have power in greenhouse? How about a small fan for air circulation? I have plastic greenhouse with no heat and using fan to protect against frost and dampness as current experiment. I get 28-110F or -2-43C temps in my area in Northern California USA. Keep those videos coming and take care!
Hey James We usually get down to about -7c so not cold in terms of places like Canada but it’s a wet cold here. We see humidity levels above 85% through winter so that cold bring list of ice and hard frosts I don’t heat the greenhouse over winter, although in late, spring when I’ve got large plants like tomatoes and peppers. So usually end of April I will heat the greenhouse to about 10c just to keep those plants happy.
I think you should try the winter sowing method on bottles or what I have done on just a low tunner (just a a low hoop covered in plastic I use to keep the squirlies from digging) Even with the frost there's a lot of plants that can be started. My outdoor seedlings are doing fab with this method this year. I was so amazed that 90% of my sweetpeas have germinated outside in toilet rools and trays inside a plastic tub from home bargains haha.
:D it's funny - as far as I can see, the winter sowing thing is just planting in propagators but using household rubbish (old pop bottles, milk cartons etc) instead of proper propagators. I need to be honest, I'm not sure what's so special or different about it?
@@eliandkate You're right. In my opinion it's something that's good depending on your situation. Like if you start gardening and don't want to invest a lot of money, it's a good way to get your foot in the water. For me, I really don't like gardening during winter, even when I start getting excited around this time, I go out and it just puts me off and taks don't get done and seeds don't get started, so I can just pop something outside (before having polytunnel) and forget about it until spring since it didn't even need water. It also saves space under the lights if you don't have a protected garden set up.
We don't buy a lot of things that I could use, so I would get next doors large water bottles. Now even though I use that for flowers, I just collect the family's newspapers and toilet paper rolls and shove them in a plastic tub and leave my seeds outside, that way I don't have to prick anything out and repot and still not bought any propagator type thing from a shop. I think if it works and it benefits you in some way, use whatever you have at home before spending money. Save the money for more seeds and other garden stuff.
yeah I think that's exactly right. Where it's a good thing, using what you have instead of buying fancy bits and bobs. It gives me a bit of a chuckle that it's just been the way things have been done in the garden forever (well for a long time - you know what I mean). Putting seeds out when there might be a frost, make sure you cover them for some protection, but somebody online named it winter sowing and suddenly it's a craze. Wish I could come up with a clever thing to make a crave and get more folk gardening 😂 Could we be onto something?
I truly enjoy you input and love your channel. I wonder what would happen to the temperature if you ran an extension cord to the greenhouse and put a small heater in it while you still have the bubble wrap on it? I live in Arizona, US. I have a small greenhouse made with large coroplast sheets ( they provide insulation like your bubble wrap). I am able to heat my greenhouse and keep it well above freezing - close to 60 degrees on our coldest nights. We don’t get as cold as you get so it might not work for you. My biggest problem is keeping the greenhouse cool during the day. I have a device that raises the roof to let the heat out but it’s not enough. We are going to install a temperature controlled vent when the snow melts.
Interesting! That's really helped me decide NOT to bubblewrap the greenhouse, but how do I save all of my over wintered plants like geraniums? Do I get fleece and chuck over at night? Help!!
Just had a giggle over what is considered proper winter temperatures in your part of the world. Here in Canada, we would use the phrase "It's only -6 degrees." Everything is relative I guess. We get colder winters but the coldest days are usually clear and sunny so temperatures can get up to 30 degrees inside the greenhouse. For us, it is trying to keep the temperatures at a more even level because at night without insulation the greenhouse gets down to outside temperatures (as low as -40 but averaging in the negative teens). Insulation and some form of heating or heat storage are essential if we want to use the greenhouse for anything other than storage in the winter.
Wow this is a stark reminder of how much things have changed over the last few years. This video was only a few years ago but even in that time there have been changes in average temperature… we now see -8c as much more of an average and spells below that are happening much more regularly. Summer too we’re seeing warmer temperatures. Lots of change. It is all relevant yeah, just on how it feels (regardless of actual temperatures) can be so different between us all because of the different levels of moisture. I’m loving learning about all the different gardening folk all over the world and their garden experiences.
Well done Eli, another useful and informative video. How did you make the intro? What do you use AE or Motion just interested, using travel mattes which is an effect I always like. Great work love your enthusiasm really comes across in the video
We're complete noobs and just went in for a greenhouse. I'm now binge watching your videos and learning tons. Do you have any recommendation for other learning sources?
To be honest.... I haven't come across anything. I have learned through my own experience hence why you will see so many videos about my experiements. In all honesty... I tend to find any advice there is, isn't applicable to my situation. I say that all the time, even in my video.... Take everything I do and say as an example.... Your experience might be similar or might be completely different, the best teacher is just time. Each season you'll learn sooooo much and it's as important to fail as to have success coz that's where the real learning is.
Hi Eli, great videos. Only saw few so far, as I only discovered you couple of weeks ago. I had/have a problem with my greenhouse being too wet/humid, so my beans and peas got the mould and nearly all dead now 😢 I am very very beginner at the gardening, so these beans and peas were just an experiment to see if they survive through the winter (as it said on the packet that I can plant them in Sep) My greenhouse only 6x8ft and it’s polycarbonate, so I wonder if it being glass rather than polycarbonate would have been less humid. Anyways, thank you for great tips that I have seen so far 👍
I can tell you from experience Vilma that humid greenhouses happen regardless of glass or poly. Mine is very humid too. It sounds to me like you need to focus on how much you are watering. In the colder months you need to water less and less Too much watering can cause mould and fungus. My tips would be loads of air flow for ventilation, keep an eye on watering and monitor… it’s all learning 😍
Love your accent! Just come across your channel and love your style and have subscribed. Your comments about your interaction with the greenhouse is very interesting and something I never heard before, great observation 🤗. I’m assuming you’re in Scotland? How far North are you? I live in SW Wales (Pembroke) and shortly intend to build my own greenhouse hence all my greenhouse video watching. If you are managing to grow stuff in it up there it gives me hope here since it’s not as cold down here. I wish we had a UA-cam for the U.K. only, there is so much US content on here, which is fine, but the Americans are very different to us, I love them but I find they’re a bit louder than us, love their intros and outcros and all seem to have huge gardens, expensive tools and bigger budgets than us lowly Brits. So I support the UK channels more readily, (no offence to our American friends, Iv learned a lot from them but can’t pop into harbour freight, Walmart or Goodwill!) 😃. Keep up the good work. 🇬🇧🏴
I v got a 6x4 lean to greenhouse attached to my block built shed and I v put bubble wrap in it to shade the plants from the sun cos after I built it I realised it’s getting the full sun lite and it baked my little seedlings first disaster lesson learnt still managed to grow my veg but had not thought about mould thru not able to dry out
Hey :D Hmmm if you are only using bubble wrap as shade, then you don't need to cover the whole greenhouse, just the areas that get direct light sunlight and even then only when the sun is strongest so you should be ok :D
I was thinking if you took off all the plastic and started with just the frame: then put a layer of bubble wrap over the frame (with bubbles facing out) and then a layer of poly straight on top of the bubble wrap, that would give you a nice layer of air between the poly and the bubble layer (because the bubbles are holding up the poly). If you do it my way then you don't have to be so fiddly with wrapping the bubble wrap around all the bits and pieces you've got inside the frame area.
Nit sure that would make any difference whether the bubble wrap is inside or outside the glass as it would do the dame thing, create a layer of air.... or do you mean add polycarbonate panels to the glass greenhouse as well as the glass?
@@thehazelnutspreadmy greehouse is just a thin plastic film and it has been punctured by pine cones so I have to repair it. YOur suggestion sounds like a viable option. I could put the bubble wrap over the punctured areas to cover the holes and then drape another sheet of plastic over the buble wrap for extra durable and to hold it into place. Thanks fo ryour comment from 2 years ago!
is it just me or what??? everytime I watch a new video I pick up a new tip or spot something in the background that makes me re-think my own! Would you just stop with all the info so that I can finally get my plan sorted or the season will be over before I'm sorted. ;-) Sarcasm : Sarcasm is the use of words usually used to either mock or annoy someone, or for humorous purposes. :-)
@@eliandkate better propagators, whether I can fit that much staging in, how many shelves can I fit, the stick before you mentioned it (bad continuity), and what looks like a tray on top of your potting tray. should I continue?? ;-)
Hey Sam, Lovely to have you with us. I actually spoke about seed starting needs in the video a few weeks ago but to be honest I wouldn't recommend it. Firstly, seeds don't need anything except very fine and lightweight. So I'm sing your good potting mix is a waste. I'd save it for when the seedlings become little plants. But also, seedlings are super delicate and can easily be damaged by fertilisers and things added to the mix. Without knowing your mix and what's in it, it's hard to say but my preference is cheap compost from the garden store, sieved to be as fine as possible... Nothing else.
hello there. fellow glasweigian here! moves south to Lesmahagow... and now have a garden and greenhouse.. not sure what bubble wrap to get.. i can't make out if i'm buying the small or large. (i'm not completely daft honest lol) happy to buy through your link if you can send me the link to the stuff you used. lover yer video.. well done 👍
It all kind of depends. If you want to go with the stuff meant for insulating greenhouses then it’s called horticultural bubble wrap. It’s much thicker and has big BIG bubbles. Really different from the stuff you use for packing things. To be honest though, you’d only use it for another few weeks then be taking it down so I’m not sure it’s be worth the expense for this year? I got mine from Harris’s horticulture
Back when I made this videos I was using Bluetooth thermometers (there are links in the video description), I’ve progressed since then and I have a full weather station
@@eliandkate Ah, I can see that you used a thermometer/hygrometer small gadget thingy. Would you recommend getting the water resistant version in a greenhouse as sometimes it can get wet? And considering you measured indoor and outdoor temps, did you buy two of these?
So what do we think about the new intro?
Great...keep.
Love it 😘👍
I liked it!
I'm in Glasgow and I grapped the side of a small plastic covered glowhouse and 2x2 polytunnel and left the roof thinking I needed more light. It's working alright but I will try now do what you've done for just a wee bit of extra heat. So glad to have found your channel, there needs to be more Scottish garden channels since we need more advice about all the humidity we deal with.
Hello from Ottawa, Canada where we get really cold weather over January & February. May I suggest two or three things for you to try for next year :
1) if you lift your floor pavers & place a layer of Styrofoam insulation sheets, it'll help keep your pavers dry in the winter;
2) have you ever looked into passive heating ? Basically you put jugs (painted black or a dark coloured) filled with water on your North wall. When the sun comes in from your South and/or East walls, the jugs will get warm & therefore throw the heat into your greenhouse. You can also use dark plastic containers but most use jugs that they use at home with laundry detergent, milk, etc.;
3) snow acts as a natural insulator so once you get a good amount, by packing the snow around the edges of your greenhouse, it'll at least keep more of that heat inside.
Hope this helps for your idea journal. Thank you for your videos. Just love them. Take good care & stay safe.
thanks for the tips Christianne,
I'm sure they will be helpful to loads of the folk out there :D
I love that your videos are genuinely you - so bring on the quirkiness.
Glad you like them!
Love the new intro. Not too long but gives a good insight into what you're all about. Well done :)
Glad you liked it!
My sistern in law, puts the tiny platic growhouses from aldi inside her greenhouse and germinates and grows winter seedling that way. Just thought I would mention in case people have this things and find the bubble wrap a bother like she does. She doesn't have a problem with leggy seedlings and does this method for starts instead of using growlights.
Love the profound comment on how it affected your relationship to the greenhouse. I totally get it! I much prefer my front garden to my back garden, even though logic says it should be the other way around. It's all personal experience.
I'm glad to hear it's not just me... I wasn't sure anyone else would underatand 🙂
I love your enthusiasm even at this time of the year and in the middle of a pandemic. Thank you for making me smile!!
I'm so glad you are smiling, it's hard going for everyone just now! Even me - trust me!
Bubble wrap for me personally was a waste of time and effort, it was damp, some of my plants went mouldy. I defo won't be trying it again. Happy gardening.
I certainly understand your response to going out to the greenhouse less when you couldn’t see the plants and, hence, not get excited about it. I love that you shared this. Yes it is just as important as all the technical tips.
I’m glad you understand Mary… not everyone see how important these tiny little details can be 😂
I totally agree with the ‘personal’ thing. Being in a happy place (the greenhouse), being able to see the birds, the trees etc is all part of the joy and time spent outside but if the view is blocked I would think it would feel a bit claustrophobic. Great video x
It seems like a lot of you guys feel the same way so not just me :D
Yeah.. We understand minging here in Northern Ireland.. Haven't heard that in a while.. Brilliant, I really enjoy the advice and the content of your videos, waffling and all. 👌😊
Fantastic!
I don't know about everyone else but I love the little bit of silliness in the videos :) always enjoy watching :) Thanks
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There was much silliness in today's video too
Gardening is definitely a very personal experience for everyone. We are -21c today so I definitely understand cold. It feeds our souls to get to play in the dirt. I can’t wait to start my seeds. Have a great day. Bye from Canada
Yeah I saw a video of the hot water to snow trick this week from Toronto.
You guys get it so so much colder than us. But I think there is definitely something different in the different amounts of moistures. I've noticed it more this year when we've had some of much colder weather, it's been dry and for some weird recent didn't feel as cold. But the days where it was warmer, around -1 or -2 but was wet... It felt much colder.
I so don't understand weather 🤣🤣🤣
I use the same size bubble wrap on all my house windows, on the inside, it saves a significant amount of money on my winter heating bill. I leave a square foot here and there uncovered to see my yard.
Interesting experiment. Love your honesty. Most important is the statement about the bubble wrap affecting your relationship and enjoyment of the GH. If your not enjoying it then there is no point.
Indeed :D
It seems like a lot of you guys feel the same way - so maybe I'm not weird after all :D
As a final note, my sistern in law swears by bubble wrapped spaces and growhouses inside greenhouses for bulbs in containers. The extra bit of heat always gets her planters bloooming early than any garden I've seen, but she does stab a few holes for ventilation in those covers just to let some humidity out and keep the bulbs healthy.
You are really growing on me. I love your energy so much. And you always make me laugh. If you call your greenhouse messy, you would have a heart attack if you saw my attic 🤣
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Every time you or Kate gets silly I laugh out loud! Your information is great, I love the experiments and problem solving but those unexpected gags are delightful!
It’s all Kate… I can’t take the credit
So glad I found your channel! I live in North East Oklahoma USA. Zone 7a. I was just thinking about using bubble wrap and after seeing this episode I believe I will skip the wrap. We have really mild winters here and can’t see spending more than I need to. I am looking into passive heat because we do get a lot of sunshine and using 55 gallon plastic drums painted black to soak up the heat during the day. My greenhouse in 10 foot by 12 foot. I also enjoyed the tour of you greenhouse. It is very organized. I loved it. Thank you again.
oh yeah the big drums of water seem to work well.
Good luck!
Very thorough in your results, including your personal observation of how not seeing the plants effected your desire to go out and check on them. Thanks
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Eli that was SUCH a good video. I love your chatty nature so much, you are both fun and informative to watch. I have a brand new (very tiny) unheated greenhouse and have been thinking about ways to maybe raise the temperature without spending a lot of money, just so I could start seeds sooner. But I agree, the fact of the matter is we live in colder climates than lots of our UA-camr friends around the world who are in warmer places and can sow seeds now ... we just have to wait a bit longer than them until we can get going. I’m going to wait until March for my seed sowing and, really, we are still going to be able to have veg and annuals etc from seed, we just need to be patient and accept the fact that we can’t start everything just yet. I really appreciated all your trials, it was just what I have been wondering myself and my own tests concluded exactly the same, my greenhouse is only a couple of degrees warmer than outside during the day (unless it was very sunny) and mine too is often colder inside than it is outside, especially at night. It will soon be Spring and before long we will probably be saying our greenhouses are too hot 🤣🤣 thank you so much for a great video!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and absolutely. We can totally grow our crops and flowers... We just do it in a shorter timespan 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you so much for such an honest review. My greenhouse is going up soon and these are all issues that we have discussed. Including how to prevent it becoming a storage area in the fall/winter and causing a massive cleanup in the spring!! Good to see that I am not the only one with these issues.
Oh that's all the things we all think about :)
Minging is used quite often down south. I loved my bubble wrap and of two greenhouses and a polytunnel on the plot the one with bubble wrap is definitely the warmest. But i prefer being in the one I can see out of.
the emotional thing seems to be really common amongst this group. I was worried it was just me :D
You have just answered my questions on whether it's worth bubble wrapping the whole greenhouse. I have 2 greenhouses, one I fully wrapped up and the other I only covered the overwintering geranium plants. The plants have survived in both greenhouses. So next winter I will only cover the plants at night.
I'm either in love or addicted.....either way I am going to try and ween my way off....hopefully Monty will be back on our screens soon :-) why oh why haven't the Beeb signed you up.
🤣🤣🤣 oh Geoff, I'm sure you're a lovely chap, but I think we need to get you some help 🤣🤣🤣
I'm not sure I'm the Beebs cup of tea... Not even Beechgrove 😜
Just watched & love your humour lol. I also don't bubble wrap the full greenhouse, I tend to do all the bottom lower panes & the roof section only, just to keep the lower heat from thermal transfer on the concrete floor. Like you, I need to see my plants. x
Yay
Someone who gets it 😁😁😁
I’ve put up bubble wrap and had a small blower heater with a thermostat all winter. I didn’t but the expensive bubble wrap and spent about £1.50 per week on heating. My heater only kicks in if if drops below 3 degrees. It’s enough to keep the load of small seedlings and plants making it through the winter.
Yeah over wintering in a greenhouse is a very different experience if you have power. But I suppose that was the point, to highlight the differences and to show that you need to be aware of the full story before blindly following some strangers advice on the internet 🤣🤣🤣
The cost of your hearing might be interesting to some as one of the things I hear alotbis about how expensivempeople are finding it to run heating.
Thanks for saving me 50 squid. Really helpful. More to spend on plants x
ha ha ha indeed 😂😂😂
Hi Eli & Kate I've been binge watching a lot of your older post from the past couple of years and really enjoy your vlog. I live about 40 minutes from you so appreciate your input especially with the weather. I was considering the bubble wrap but after this episode I'll save myself some money and maybe buy some grow lights. I have purchased some ot the Quadgrows and hope to have the sucess you have had. Basil is my favourite too. Keep going with your vlogs. Love your sense of humour. Thank you for your enthusiasm to share
will see what excitement the following season brings.
We’ve just in stalled power, so the bubblewrap may come back for the winter, we’ll see :D
Hi and many thanks from Germany. This video saved time and money. Subbed.
Glad it helped
Thanks for your really honest conclusions about the bubble rap ....respect. :-) You've not lost out, if you don't try it you'll never know. I'm Learning tons thanks for your videos.
So glad this adventure has been useful for you James 😀😀😀😀
Glad I came across this one Eli. Was thinking of using bubble wrap. Mmm don’t think I’ll bother now. Happy planting 😊💖
It does work… defo makes a difference, was just that I didn’t like the look 😁
I’m thinking of doing similar in a section of polytunnel (to get some stuff planted out before the last frost) and your video answered a few of my concerns, thank you.
Another useful and informative video, thanks Eli! Cant wait to get my greenhouse up. I tried to overwinter things in cold frames, but found the mould thing a problem. We haven't had really cold winters for a good few years in Scotland eh, this one has come as a surprise! Never mind spring is just round the corner, happy days! Oh, liking the new intro, liked them all really. Take care guys!
Hey Lorraine
I tell you what - to tide you over until it's up.... it might be worth grabbing a cuppa and sitting with these two playlists. That way you get to go through the journey with me when I got my greenhouse and see all the brilliant stuff to come and all the things to thinking about :)
...Setting up your new greenhouse: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4kYC4OV1J6vChfrGXnhKr5X.html
...Greenhouse gardening: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4mxGbs3hx2622MdqAVRPn0B.html
Great video thanks for the info about the bubble wrap I’ll leave my £50 in the bank 😂
Hello from SW 🇨🇦, omg I thought I was the only one with fungus and damping off but your right the soil just doesn’t seem to be drying. I had heard and will try watering with camomile tea instead of water. Very frustrating for sure but hopefully the weather will warm up a bit more. I know Jessie from Plot 37 uses bubble wrap too. Well thanks for sharing your videos I look forward to seeing you updates. As always stay safe and stay gardening 🇨🇦✌️🌶🥕🥬💐🧑🌾
Lol nope it seems to be quite common.
I'm not sure about the camomile tea making any difference. I haven't tried it but I have a home made camomile tea solution instead of wet wipes and I've seen that go mouldy if I forget about it. Be interesting to look into that further.
Ahead of the approaching winter, maybe you'd like to try using a popup grow house with shelves and removable cover inside the greenhouse, rather than the bubble wrap. I've found they provide a good amount of insulation and can be covered with an additional layer of bubble wrap for extra protection if the temperature plummets below zero - i.e. minus 5C for long periods. I've successfully overwintered gazinias and other non-hardy plants this way. Great video. I found the graph you displayed very helpful and interesting along with your thoughts and comments on living with the bubble wrap. I also agree with the statement about seeing the plants and them 'calling to you' as you look at them from in the house!
I think the feeling if living with bubble wrap is important for those us us with smallish gardens, the greenhouse is such a visible landmark that visually its really important.
It sounds like you do something similar to me. I use propagators jn the greenhouse the way yiu use your plastic greenhouse, just togive that extra level of cover.
I'm actually talking about it in tomorrow's video, more in terms of keeping the soil warm for seed germination rather than protecting less hardy plants but they are useful and a god send some winters 😀
Nice avatar 👌
This is exactly the point I'm at with my new greenhouse so this video is exactly what I needed to hear. Looks like shading might be more important if we ever get any sun, that is 🤦♂️😁
We’ve never ever had a need for shade… until the summer past and we had some real issues with sun scorch on our peppers
@@eliandkate yes, just watched your video on shading and 'peppergate' 😁
Loved the video thankyou guys. Loved the new intro; so clever too 💚❤
Thanks so much! 😊
Hi what I did was put an office fan on a timer in the greenhouse so that air would be blown around the greenhouse i found it helps with the mould.
Just a quick point Eli, have you thought about using a couple of 100 hour candles in the greenhouse? I've used them for quite a while now and they do work, not by actually warming the place but just by keeping the temperature above freezing.
Hey Derek,
I actually did try both the big church candles and the upturned terracotta pots trick - neither really helped me unfortunately
Lovely video, thanks for sharing your experience 😘😘
Glad you enjoyed the video
Love the new intro...the old one was good too...you do such a great job. I also enjoy the silliness! It’s difficult watching channels that just talk off topic but your videos are on topic with some silly real life Eli fun. Great analysis of the greenhouse. I’ve come to a similar determination for mine as well. Unless you plan to heat the house abs really try to grow all winter long I don’t think it is worth it. Taking it down will be a pain!! Great video!
Thanks so much and yup - I think we now know :D unheated is just unheated, we have to deal with it :D
this was helpful especially the charts. they clearly show wide swings in temps continued which to me, means the bubble wrap (alone) doesn't moderate the temperature swings. I do thnk (expensive) polycarbonite would "flatten" those swings.it's also possible encapsulated bubble wrap (sandwhiched between two panels) would work better; fan might help too. thanks bvry much for sharing your charts with all of us.
You’re more than welcome.
You are right though, nothing other than having heating in there and good solid insulation prevents the peaks and drops. The temperature will peak in daytime when there is sunlight and drop at night once the sun sets.
Unfortunately it’s the annoying thing about greenhouse marketing, they make it sound like it’s some sort of miracle but in truth, although great at making the best of the sunlight, they do have limitations that we need to learn to work with.
This video is quite old now, since then I’ve stopped trying to change the temperatures in there in winter. It is what it is and instead I plant appropriately for the season, lots of hardy greens 😀
Considering what you said about the greenhouse warming up slower than the garden, I think for an experiment I will try putting some plant trays under my raised bed with plastic hoop covers on them and see if plants get a kick start once the weather warms, compared to the ones in the greenhouse.
Sounds great!
This was really interesting I think like you the fact that I couldn’t see into the greenhouse would mean I would be less likely to want to go check on things on a daily basis and I hadn’t thought about this. I do have the potential to heat my greenhouse so that could make a difference and I now have to give this some thought so thank you lots to ponder over🙂
the visual thing wasn't something I had expected, was a bit of a surprise revelation to me.
@@eliandkate it’s definitely something to think about and might mean I rethink the siting of my greenhouse when I get it however its a bit of a moot point at this time because the greenhouse I was getting I’ve been gazumped on😰 so back to the drawing board 😭 on a plus note my friend has a Rhino greenhouse and she thinks it’s brilliant so if I can’t get a 2nd hand one on budget this spring I may well just keep saving and get a Rhino for the Autumn 🤷🏻♀️
Thank you so much for this video. It's my first year with a greenhouse, so any tips and inspirations is def much appreciated. Hope you and yours have a great day :D
Glad it was helpful!
It might be worth grabbing a cuppa and sitting with these two playlists. That way you get to go through the journey with me when I got my greenhouse and see all the brilliant stuff to come and all the things to thinking about :)
Setting up your new greenhouse: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4kYC4OV1J6vChfrGXnhKr5X.html
Greenhouse gardening: ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4mxGbs3hx2622MdqAVRPn0B.html
@@eliandkate Thanks I'll check it out :D
Great video Eli. You should be on TV.
😂 no thanks
I'll stick to the small screen
Thanks for the excellent vid.
I think I will try and find some pop up propagators that I can fold up and store during the summer or maybe make one from some plastic tubing and thick polythene. That way I can make it fit my staging as well.
Hopefully that will keep the stuff I hope to grow warm enough.
that sounds like an excellent plan :D
I'm all for making life easy with foldable and storable stuff
Many years gardening but this is the first year with a greenhouse. 6x6 polycarbonate one.
Oh this will be an exciting year for you. My first greenhouse was a polycarbonate one too, had it for 6 years
Fascinating video Eli. I love love loved your conclusions at the end. It's a bit of a shame that it didn't work out as worthwhile for you after balancing everything up, but thank you so much for sharing all the useful insight and data for UA-cam! Such a great resource. The plan for next winter sounds great as well!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I like the new intro. Very professional looking!
Why thank you 🙂🙂🙂
Thanks for this- it answered a lot of questions for me! I had not gone down the bubble wrap route myself, but I had some cheap pop-up “greenhouses” from Wilko, which I had used in lieu of a cold frame. I then decided to use them in the greenhouse for storing more sensitive plants/seedlings, like a sub-greenhouse, over the winter and it worked pretty well - not a huge difference but enough for my purposes. I may do this next year with the bubble wrap instead of the plain plastic sheets to see if this is better. So if you don’t want to wall off an area, of your greenhouse, you could try using bubble wrap on some racking. Just a thought! Anyone else tried this?
that was my thought :) wrap one of the staging sets as it's own wee area :D
Thanks for all the great info - I'm currently building a greenhouse and you have been great to share some light on some subjects. I mention you in a video I'm releasing tonight. Thanks again. Look forward to more tips from you.
That’s great to hear our videos have been useful 😍
I’ll look forward to catching up with your video 👍
Hi Eli and Kate, Did I like your new intro?, Do I like your new subscribe bits ?, Yet another great video from Scotland, Well done Eli, I am raring to go and get some more seeds sown and I can tell you are too, Tomorrow NEW MONTH and maybe a start to sowing more, Ok, the answer to both the question ABSOLUTELY YES great, fantastic, well done on those two bIts of NEW to your channel, Take care and Brrrr stay warm.
Awesome! Thank you so much :D
i use 30g fleece in half my green house to keep my plants going in winter ...thanks for this as i was thinking of getting bubblerap
You rock my friend. I love your information, and perspective.
Aw brill. Glad you enjoyed the vid
Interesting to see the results of the bubble wrap. It’ll be interesting as well to compare the differences once you remove it, particularly if you’re thinking of doing that quite soon 👍
hoping to do it soon, but will all depend on workload and weather - minus 6 again today and the greenhouse is frozen closed again
Your videos are so helpful and I'm slowly working my way through them (6am, cup of tea, get a few videos in before I start my day). I was never really interested in gardening but lockdown made me realise I needed to do something constructive and now I'm now absolutely loving it. A friend advised bubble wrapping the greenhouse which my hubby did for me but to be honest I'm not sure the effort and cost was worth it and some (not all) of the geraniums and fruit trees I left in there have gone mouldy but without it they may not have survived anyway. Especially loved the video about sterilising spent compost to reuse - I have thrown loads away, so bad! I am now thinking about quadgrow planters so may ask you about them separately.
Glad you’re finding my experiences useful 😀
Interesting conclusion. As you may be aware, I tried putting a mini plastic greenhouse wrapped in bubble wrap inside my bigger glass one and tried to heat that instead of warming the whole 8x14 space. However, every morning the plastic house was very wet on the walls, so I gave up and put everything into warming propagators instead. Think I lost quite a few chillis and peppers as they rotted. You need to get electricity in there! It’s not a big job, honestly. I think I’ll make an 8x2 heated bench for next year as I can use it for when seedlings come out of the vitapods.
I think more than ever I'm resolute to the fact putting heating in there is just a waste. For the sake of a handful of plants I really don't think I could justify it. 🙂 Back to my old routines I think
Love the madness and waffles lol
This just come up on my home page to watch so thought I would…. And it’s funny that you said about being funny.
It’s funny how Scotland is wet and humid but not just there…. If you can get a humidifier or humidity meter. As we got one as had mould in the bedroom, minging!!!
And even here in southeast Kent… it’s ment to be the opposite weather to get what you get lol. But we need the dehumidifier on as can’t get it below 50% but without it on it’s between 70-87% so it does make a difference and the unit I have takes out 5L of water in 6-8 hours.
Which is good and I know if it’s filling up and the meter says it’s like 50% I will turn it off and save electric but it most definitely has helped.
You can get disposable dehumidifier boxes that you throw away or empty and recycle once full , that take the moisture out the air
Given our air is generally above 90% humidity outside of summer
It’s just something that’s part of life 😂😂😂😂
Great video 👍
You always make me laugh 😁😘
Yay! Thank you!
I’m totally with you. The bubble wrap kinda ruins the look of the nice glass greenhouse which matters to me for sure.
There’s just something weird about not being able to see into the greenhouse
Thanks for the update! Can you put a rotating fan inside to help dry things out a bit?
ventilation is always a must in the greenhouse, no matter the season so absolutely
Hello … Maybe you can hang some of those closet water absorbers (DampRid). I hang them in my basement to decrease moisture so it doesn’t get that awful mold smell. 🤔
👌 new intro
love the new intro
Mingin’ lol, we say that here in Northern Ireland too 😂
Great video as always, liked the subtitles about "minging", not an issue for me I ken what this is ha! ha!, love the idea for the rolls of tape, I have similar in my shed. My greenhouse has been up for about a month, but nothing in it so far, trying to seal it all before putting things in, you mentioned water coming under the frame?, I have sealed my frame to the paving slabs with a good quality silicon sealer, but there was still water ingress, turned out it was coming from the top corners at the roof and running down, now sealed too. I'm in the process of running power to my one, just as an alternative, but this is just a bonus, only too happy to follow you in an unheated one, oh, and I do like your new flash intro.
My poor design choices didn't help with the water comin in... I have the down pipes splashing onto the paving 🙄
@@eliandkate oops! 🙂
clever and funny - some good ideas.
Glad you enjoyed 😀
This was great help. I was wondering if I should buy bubble wrap after watching one of my other gardeners. Jessie at plot #37. Watching g her made me look it up and I came across you.
And I like listening to you. Because I think you are funny and informative. I see that this video is 10 months old so I hope you are still doing it.
Thank you for helping.
Very much so... lots of videos since then including all those bubblewrap experiments last year and my winter growing this year.
Another fun and informative video. What is your winter temperature range? Do you have power in greenhouse? How about a small fan for air circulation? I have plastic greenhouse with no heat and using fan to protect against frost and dampness as current experiment. I get 28-110F or -2-43C temps in my area in Northern California USA. Keep those videos coming and take care!
Hey James
We usually get down to about -7c so not cold in terms of places like Canada but it’s a wet cold here. We see humidity levels above 85% through winter so that cold bring list of ice and hard frosts
I don’t heat the greenhouse over winter, although in late, spring when I’ve got large plants like tomatoes and peppers. So usually end of April I will heat the greenhouse to about 10c just to keep those plants happy.
I think you should try the winter sowing method on bottles or what I have done on just a low tunner (just a a low hoop covered in plastic I use to keep the squirlies from digging) Even with the frost there's a lot of plants that can be started. My outdoor seedlings are doing fab with this method this year. I was so amazed that 90% of my sweetpeas have germinated outside in toilet rools and trays inside a plastic tub from home bargains haha.
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it's funny - as far as I can see, the winter sowing thing is just planting in propagators but using household rubbish (old pop bottles, milk cartons etc) instead of proper propagators. I need to be honest, I'm not sure what's so special or different about it?
@@eliandkate You're right. In my opinion it's something that's good depending on your situation. Like if you start gardening and don't want to invest a lot of money, it's a good way to get your foot in the water. For me, I really don't like gardening during winter, even when I start getting excited around this time, I go out and it just puts me off and taks don't get done and seeds don't get started, so I can just pop something outside (before having polytunnel) and forget about it until spring since it didn't even need water. It also saves space under the lights if you don't have a protected garden set up.
We don't buy a lot of things that I could use, so I would get next doors large water bottles. Now even though I use that for flowers, I just collect the family's newspapers and toilet paper rolls and shove them in a plastic tub and leave my seeds outside, that way I don't have to prick anything out and repot and still not bought any propagator type thing from a shop. I think if it works and it benefits you in some way, use whatever you have at home before spending money. Save the money for more seeds and other garden stuff.
yeah I think that's exactly right. Where it's a good thing, using what you have instead of buying fancy bits and bobs. It gives me a bit of a chuckle that it's just been the way things have been done in the garden forever (well for a long time - you know what I mean). Putting seeds out when there might be a frost, make sure you cover them for some protection, but somebody online named it winter sowing and suddenly it's a craze.
Wish I could come up with a clever thing to make a crave and get more folk gardening 😂 Could we be onto something?
I truly enjoy you input and love your channel. I wonder what would happen to the temperature if you ran an extension cord to the greenhouse and put a small heater in it while you still have the bubble wrap on it? I live in Arizona, US. I have a small greenhouse made with large coroplast sheets ( they provide insulation like your bubble wrap). I am able to heat my greenhouse and keep it well above freezing - close to 60 degrees on our coldest nights. We don’t get as cold as you get so it might not work for you. My biggest problem is keeping the greenhouse cool during the day. I have a device that raises the roof to let the heat out but it’s not enough. We are going to install a temperature controlled vent when the snow melts.
Funny how we all have different weather problems
Interesting! That's really helped me decide NOT to bubblewrap the greenhouse, but how do I save all of my over wintered plants like geraniums? Do I get fleece and chuck over at night? Help!!
the old fashioned way is fleece to help prevent frost damage
Just had a giggle over what is considered proper winter temperatures in your part of the world. Here in Canada, we would use the phrase "It's only -6 degrees." Everything is relative I guess. We get colder winters but the coldest days are usually clear and sunny so temperatures can get up to 30 degrees inside the greenhouse. For us, it is trying to keep the temperatures at a more even level because at night without insulation the greenhouse gets down to outside temperatures (as low as -40 but averaging in the negative teens). Insulation and some form of heating or heat storage are essential if we want to use the greenhouse for anything other than storage in the winter.
Wow this is a stark reminder of how much things have changed over the last few years. This video was only a few years ago but even in that time there have been changes in average temperature… we now see -8c as much more of an average and spells below that are happening much more regularly. Summer too we’re seeing warmer temperatures. Lots of change.
It is all relevant yeah, just on how it feels (regardless of actual temperatures) can be so different between us all because of the different levels of moisture. I’m loving learning about all the different gardening folk all over the world and their garden experiences.
Thank you for the experiment! 🐿. My only worry with a greenhouse is wild visitors 🐍
Not really an issue for us 🙂
Well done Eli, another useful and informative video.
How did you make the intro?
What do you use AE or Motion just interested, using travel mattes which is an effect I always like.
Great work love your enthusiasm really comes across in the video
It's done in premiere pro Russ. That my editor of choice 🙂
We're complete noobs and just went in for a greenhouse. I'm now binge watching your videos and learning tons. Do you have any recommendation for other learning sources?
To be honest.... I haven't come across anything. I have learned through my own experience hence why you will see so many videos about my experiements. In all honesty... I tend to find any advice there is, isn't applicable to my situation. I say that all the time, even in my video.... Take everything I do and say as an example.... Your experience might be similar or might be completely different, the best teacher is just time. Each season you'll learn sooooo much and it's as important to fail as to have success coz that's where the real learning is.
I'm moving to Scotland for my son n daughter in law.
They are in Dunfermline but anywhere I can...to transfer.
i did the bubble wrap and all my stuff i had growing went mouldy , and we say minging in cheshire lol
it's looking like the whole of the UK say minging :D
Hi Eli, great videos. Only saw few so far, as I only discovered you couple of weeks ago. I had/have a problem with my greenhouse being too wet/humid, so my beans and peas got the mould and nearly all dead now 😢 I am very very beginner at the gardening, so these beans and peas were just an experiment to see if they survive through the winter (as it said on the packet that I can plant them in Sep) My greenhouse only 6x8ft and it’s polycarbonate, so I wonder if it being glass rather than polycarbonate would have been less humid. Anyways, thank you for great tips that I have seen so far 👍
I can tell you from experience Vilma that humid greenhouses happen regardless of glass or poly. Mine is very humid too.
It sounds to me like you need to focus on how much you are watering. In the colder months you need to water less and less
Too much watering can cause mould and fungus.
My tips would be loads of air flow for ventilation, keep an eye on watering and monitor… it’s all learning 😍
Thank you very much, now thinking about, I might have overdone with the watering 🤔 definitely learning from experience 👍
I’ve just ordered a propagator from Amazon and I’m almost ready for the 2021 season #Bringon2021growingseason
bring it on!!!!!!!
Wigan, North west england we use minging too 🤣
😀😀😀😀
Use an oscillating fan 24/7 will help the air circulation
Love your accent! Just come across your channel and love your style and have subscribed. Your comments about your interaction with the greenhouse is very interesting and something I never heard before, great observation 🤗. I’m assuming you’re in Scotland? How far North are you? I live in SW Wales (Pembroke) and shortly intend to build my own greenhouse hence all my greenhouse video watching. If you are managing to grow stuff in it up there it gives me hope here since it’s not as cold down here. I wish we had a UA-cam for the U.K. only, there is so much US content on here, which is fine, but the Americans are very different to us, I love them but I find they’re a bit louder than us, love their intros and outcros and all seem to have huge gardens, expensive tools and bigger budgets than us lowly Brits. So I support the UK channels more readily, (no offence to our American friends, Iv learned a lot from them but can’t pop into harbour freight, Walmart or Goodwill!) 😃. Keep up the good work. 🇬🇧🏴
Im central belt of Scotland so that too far north 😁
Love the intro ❤️
I v got a 6x4 lean to greenhouse attached to my block built shed and I v put bubble wrap in it to shade the plants from the sun cos after I built it I realised it’s getting the full sun lite and it baked my little seedlings first disaster lesson learnt still managed to grow my veg but had not thought about mould thru not able to dry out
Hey :D
Hmmm if you are only using bubble wrap as shade, then you don't need to cover the whole greenhouse, just the areas that get direct light sunlight and even then only when the sun is strongest so you should be ok :D
i like it
I was thinking if you took off all the plastic and started with just the frame: then put a layer of bubble wrap over the frame (with bubbles facing out) and then a layer of poly straight on top of the bubble wrap, that would give you a nice layer of air between the poly and the bubble layer (because the bubbles are holding up the poly). If you do it my way then you don't have to be so fiddly with wrapping the bubble wrap around all the bits and pieces you've got inside the frame area.
Nit sure that would make any difference whether the bubble wrap is inside or outside the glass as it would do the dame thing, create a layer of air.... or do you mean add polycarbonate panels to the glass greenhouse as well as the glass?
@@eliandkate Sorry, I didn't know it was glass. I just thought it was a poly sheet over the frame.
@@thehazelnutspreadmy greehouse is just a thin plastic film and it has been punctured by pine cones so I have to repair it. YOur suggestion sounds like a viable option. I could put the bubble wrap over the punctured areas to cover the holes and then drape another sheet of plastic over the buble wrap for extra durable and to hold it into place. Thanks fo ryour comment from 2 years ago!
Hi. Just found your channel. Great video. Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
is it just me or what??? everytime I watch a new video I pick up a new tip or spot something in the background that makes me re-think my own!
Would you just stop with all the info so that I can finally get my plan sorted or the season will be over before I'm sorted. ;-)
Sarcasm
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Ha ha ha ok I need to know. What have you been seeing in the background?
@@eliandkate better propagators, whether I can fit that much staging in, how many shelves can I fit, the stick before you mentioned it (bad continuity), and what looks like a tray on top of your potting tray. should I continue?? ;-)
ha ha ha. aaaaaaaaah
Don't start with continuity - Kate is obsessed with stuff like that.
Sometimes I do it just to annoy her! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hi great channel. Im in the lower part of Alabama USA. Can use use moisture control potting soil to start your seeds in? Love your accent
Hey Sam,
Lovely to have you with us.
I actually spoke about seed starting needs in the video a few weeks ago but to be honest I wouldn't recommend it. Firstly, seeds don't need anything except very fine and lightweight. So I'm sing your good potting mix is a waste. I'd save it for when the seedlings become little plants. But also, seedlings are super delicate and can easily be damaged by fertilisers and things added to the mix.
Without knowing your mix and what's in it, it's hard to say but my preference is cheap compost from the garden store, sieved to be as fine as possible... Nothing else.
The rain comes in greenhouse underneath the frame every time it rains do I need to seal the frame to the concrete or am o better to leave it
No you don't actually want the greenhouse to be a sealed unit, all those bits allow ventilation... its not a bad thing
When they giving you your own TV show, Eli? X
😂😂👍
Not sure there's a channel out there who'd have me lol
A small fan circulating the air will help with the moisture!
hello there. fellow glasweigian here! moves south to Lesmahagow... and now have a garden and greenhouse.. not sure what bubble wrap to get.. i can't make out if i'm buying the small or large. (i'm not completely daft honest lol) happy to buy through your link if you can send me the link to the stuff you used. lover yer video.. well done 👍
It all kind of depends. If you want to go with the stuff meant for insulating greenhouses then it’s called horticultural bubble wrap. It’s much thicker and has big BIG bubbles. Really different from the stuff you use for packing things.
To be honest though, you’d only use it for another few weeks then be taking it down so I’m not sure it’s be worth the expense for this year?
I got mine from Harris’s horticulture
You mentioned something about monitoring temperatures inside and outside the greenhouse, what do you use for that?
Back when I made this videos I was using Bluetooth thermometers (there are links in the video description), I’ve progressed since then and I have a full weather station
@@eliandkate Nice, what weather station have you got?
@@eliandkate Ah, I can see that you used a thermometer/hygrometer small gadget thingy. Would you recommend getting the water resistant version in a greenhouse as sometimes it can get wet? And considering you measured indoor and outdoor temps, did you buy two of these?
@emre-ci3fy it’s in that list too. It’s an Ecowitt
A decent one should be able to cope with the atmosphere in the greenhouse
Mingings not exclusive to the Scots, we Geordies love that word too
From the reaction to this video last year, everyone north of Watford seems to use it 😀😀😀
@@eliandkate Sorry, I hadn't read the most recent comments
Ps Just a warning, I'm binge watching :) and subbed
Habha ha that's OK, that would be a lot for you to read. Binge away, but remember to take breaks from the screen.