Loved this. I've watched you since CP did his video but it is only today that I realized I could do this on the south face of my large stable, using my large parking lot for horse trailers. Now I have a whole new thing to contemplate.
Great job. I was going to build a greenhouse with a similar design about 6 years ago. The excavation work was all done, but Life gave me a curve ball and I didn't complete it. After everything calmed down I bought a Farmers Friend tunnel which worked pretty good in my zone 4 climate. In the NW corner I put in some 4" foam board and covered the sides and top with glass and ran a milkhouse heater on the 32° setting that keeps the plants from freezing. The rest of the tube is mostly kale, carrots, Celeriac, celery, Leeks and onions, which do fine in freezing conditions. My main problem was slugs. I think that they were introduced from a yew plant that I purchased from a nursery. Now I am going to move the tube to another location and hope that it will be clean from slugs.
Feed and water the tangerine. Many citrus drop all their leaves after fruiting. MyMeyer lemon trees do. They come back blooming. Smells divine! Beautiful greenhouse, I've been looking at the ancient Chinese greenhouse plans. Bought a few books on them.
@@ArkopiaTH-cam Hey, with trees you should treat them as living for about a year before giving up. Many transplants and less-than-natural changes can stagnate many trees for a full cycle.
Really enjoy your video's. Sold house in southern ON. Bought abandoned farm near Timmins, ON. !65 acres. I'm basically using your model to set up my small farm. The planting info for apple tree's and berry's, the insect control methods has been awesome. i'm 3 months in and overwhelmed but your video's are a source of inspiration. Thank you and please keep them coming. also having major territorial problem with tree swallow nesting boxes. 100 feet apart is not far enough. Going to surround the homestead with them. thanks
Your way of explaining things by experience is gold to me. Thank you for sharing. i wish i can inspire from it when it'll be time to build my garage/house/greenhouse.
I love this keep up the great work.love to see an update with the concrete in. Also if you ever need ventilation for anything let me know. I build commercial chicken barns for a living and access to alot of stuff from around the world.
Thank you for your time and effort, truly inspiring. Your video and Canadian Preppers came up same time, choose yours first going to watch his next. Absolutely love the greenhouse, a major goal for my future.
I am at 47.25 latitude and my green hose just has vertical windows so today only the front bed has full sun. It is 20X20 feet which is enough to bring my wicking barrels in for the winter. During the summer the north section grows New Zeeland spinach that likes the shade and tolerates both hot and cool temperatures. I need to do the super insulated roof.
And an old retired postman in Nebraska digs an 8-ft deep trench on the North floor of his greenhouse so it's below grade and is geothermally heated and cooled. And he's slightly angles the north wall down so it reflects the winter sun onto the back side of the trench. Look up geothermally heated and cooled greenhouse in Nebraska it's a great video. And because it's cooler but below grade the the plant can be taller so he grows orange trees nectarine trees that have been in there for 25 years and produce the best quality citrus at that latitude.
I’ve watched his videos probably 20 times. Love the concept as well. My water table is very high and was worried about going down, plus our sun angle in the winter is 14 degrees, so every 1 foot down literally shades many feet of the greenhouse. If a guy had a hill and wanted to build a concrete wall on the north to hold the soil back or something, or a earth ship type of thing, that would be awesome too. Hard to do for me connecting to my shop. Lots of cool ideas, but I stand firm on my “always spend the money on super insulation”. A guy only has so many resources available as well. 🙏✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam those videos are awesome and you're way further north than he is... And you are the expert I'm just a casual observer who wishes he had the room. Thanks again
I really love your greenhouse, I keep reviewing your videos on the build hoping I can find a way to build one. I’m at a similar latitude, eastward between the lakes. I used to live in Saskatoon so I’m familiar with the weather there. We have very similar weather here. You have done a fantastic job of creating your space and I hope it serves you and your family well. I freeze dry my produce and do a lot of canning, but having fresh fruit and veg in the winter is the best. The last 2 years of growing food in outdoor gardens has been extremely challenging. We grow about 1 acre of veg each year 2/3 of which we donated to our local rural food bank which saw a major drop in donations 2 years ago. Last year we had drought and temps of 28-35 for most of the summer - watering was a 7 day a week adventure. This year everything was flooded, our farm garden was under water and with all the rain we have been getting, it’s still unusable, hopefully the rain will ease up in the next week or two so we can get in there and plant greens which still have time to grow. Fortunately where our house is located we were not flooded, but the gardens there have been challenging to plant. We are fortunate to have raised them with compost and top soil about 18” above the original surface, they were still wet on the underside, but I was able to get in there in bare feet and plant seeds which are all now coming up. I sink up to my shins in some places, it looks funny to see these deep foot prints on each side of the rows. The soil is staying moist and most of the water is draining down to the clay undersurface. In desperation this year due to the excessive rain and an immediate need for planting space we bought a 30x40 greenhouse and filled it with the same compost and top soil mixture- were able to plant our tomatoes, peppers, celery, cabbage, cauliflower, sprouts and herbs in there - it saved our plants from dying in their starter pots. We have 3 smaller 10x20 greenhouses where we start our plants each year in April, they have front and back doors that roll up so even when it’s only 4C outside I can roll up the ends and still wear t-shirt and shorts while working, They do get hot. The 30x40 has roll up sides and front and back doors which allow the breeze to keep the temp reasonable. Hopefully the weather next year normalizes, if not, well even though our hearts and minds tell us we are young, our bodies tell us otherwise and we may have to cut back on the work load. Good luck on your continued build, looking forward to seeing future videos.
Wow. Great work. Yes, growing food sure has its challenges. The greenhouse too. But the greenhouse does minimize some challenges as well. All the best. ✌️
We've been watching your Best Greenhouse Design for us in the north. Thank you for your updates on it too. We are so very interested in setting up your design. We are in Northwestern Ontario, which is 8 hours east of Winnipeg Manitoba.
You should really sell blueprints, I would buy, albeit not sure I can afford to build something like this yet but I would love to have a greenhouse like yours and would pay for plans
I would definitely be interested in plans or a book. I think a major advantage is being connected to the shop on the north side. I would think that cuts the cold north wind in the winter. Also wondering if you circulate air from shop to greenhouse in the summer to help with cooling, do you reverse that in spring and fall when the green house is warming up? Thought maybe it provides some heat for the shop and would offset costs. 🤷♀️ Thanks for sharing your journey.
If it were me, I think I would avoid the the black paint at the line you've drawn. As the angle of the sun gets lower over the summer you'll be collecting heat you don't want during July and August. I would start the black paint wherever the sun is at the end of August. If you find you're not holding enough heat during the winter and spring months you can always add more black paint. The concrete will do a good job at holding the heat anyway, even without the black paint.
@@ArkopiaTH-cam Dean I was gonna make a point about the white paint -I wouldn't go too "bright" as the reflection off the floor can make it difficult to look directly at the floor in full sunlight if need be (which could be hazardous if there are hoses, toys, etc to trip over) - a light birch-color or grey-tone might be something to consider. That Banana Tree make this Canadian so proud every time -keep up the great work!
I do similar projects but in little scale (4×8) ft. And works great 👍 I don't have big space because is used on winter for accumulated the snow pushed from the tractor but....if I talk with my municipal office maybe I can make a medium sized dome for try something better. Obviously all by myself like always 😅👋
Have you tried hugelkulture raised beds? They work wonders for me here in upstate NY. Once my plants start producing or at least having some decent size I rarely have to water them.
I love your greenhouse the way you designed it and everything about your way of life your work ethic and the way you buy smart. So I don't know if this would work but if it could work you would be the guy to figure out how to do it and here's my thought: Don't paint your sidewalk White rather plant it with plants you can walk on that could provide some other food source for maybe rabbits that you allow to clear the path I don't know but I'm sure you could figure something out. Thanks for the videos
That’s a great idea. I’ve even seen one guy did worm bins under a pallet walkway. I’m pretty sure my wife will be lining the concrete with plants in pots. It’ll be a jungle either way. Thanks for the idea. ✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam of course I love having a creak inside a greenhouse so you could just make it a 3 ft deep 4 ft wide water tank and put a metal grate over the top of it so you can see the fish or have water plants and have a running current because moving water does something to the ions and or something ... got to have a waterfall no green houses complete without a 20 ft tall waterfall Lol...
@@Interglacial_optimist Haha. I wish. I thought about an inground koi pond actually. 😂 The possibilities are endless, but my time and energy are always running low. 😂
mangos like neutral soil with plenty of compost. they hate alkaline soil. if not fungus. try some named types. tree tomato/tamarillo should do really well in there. they love shade moderate temps and grow fast.
Northern hemisphere readers sit in the twilight-shunting sunlight of our longest day to keep us inspired until the moon finally arrives; Which, by the looks of it, is not going to happen in our neck of the woods (Ottawa,ON region) as, for the most part of the day, thunderstorms... rain and more rain seem to have settled in well into the evening and night... ;-/
I love mulch, but scared of bringing in bugs again in it. Maybe I should mulch now early while it’s open, so when it gets closed up in fall maybe the bad bugs will be gone by then. Had such a fruit fly and aphid problem bringing in mulch last fall.
I've been reading this book by Phil Nauta, 'Building Soils Naturally'. Phil opines that insects and disease only affect our plants if our plants are unhealthy in some way. He argues that insects and disease choose hosts based on nutritional imbalances in the host and that in fact insects do not have the necessary enzymes to digest truly healthy plants. Phil writes about Francis Chaboussou concluding the imbalance shows up as an excess of soluble nitrogen and sugars in the plant, and explains, this excess can be caused by many things with soil imbalances mentioned foremost. Insects love imbalanced plants! Phil also loves mulch, particularly living mulches. He advocates for a mulch layer throughout the year. He's an interesting guy. My wife would be putting out the apple cider vinegar for the fruit flies and I would plant Nasturtiums as a trap plant for the aphids, also marigolds as they attract predatory insects that eat aphids etc.
Thank you! This was very educational for me. Although I don't live in Canada I live in the high desert of Central Oregon at about 4,200 ft. Our winters are cold our summers are hot, so I'm thinking of shading the north end of my 10x24 ft hoop house, which runs north and south on the property. Do you think that would make a similar difference as in your greenhouse design? Thank you again, love the video, Happy solstice 🌞and Happy gardening 🌱!
Really, it’s just insulating where the sun never is, and glazing where the sun is when you want it. Give it some good thought, look up your sun angles, and make it work. 👍✌️
I'm in northern Ontario, how did you find getting a building permit? Did you need to get an engineered stamp on things or?? I know rules are different between the provinces, but any tips would be much appreciated!
Does it really mater if concrete was black or white when all is inside greenhouse? I mean black will get more heated but white will just reflect heat inside greenhouse, all heat will be inside. White will just heat air better then black.
Depends. The mrs collected flower seeds yesterday. With the greenhouse, our timelines are out of wack compared to outside growing that we’re used to. 👍
Do you have a link to buy some fruit trees I seen oranges and your banana tree I’m looking and it’s hard to find a place for good fruit trees that ship I’m in Ontario thanks
I love your greenhouse. But I have not enough space to build something like this. So I thought about a big lean on green house to my house. It isolates the house too. I should get rid of the carport, no matter. But: I live in an 170 years old house. There is monument protection. Even in the middle of nowhere (German bureaucracy. Regard the irony: a carport is allowed, but not a big lean on greenhouse). So I'm thinking about a few little greenhouses. Until a certain space they are allowed without permission from authorythies. I'll figure it out. You must know: in Germany, it's forbidden to poop in the wood, because it could contiminate the groundwater. Great problem to all our bushcafters, who are not allowed to sleep in the woods. And German woods: you walk half an hour an the wood ends. In most regions.
@@ArkopiaTH-cam are the water barrels solely for thermal mass? Are you going to paint them black for max absorption of the solar energy? Or are they also for rainwater to water the garden?
I watched alot of your videos I have 7 kids so I may have missed it but how big is this. Mine is going to be close of 36x48. How high front glass wall and rear back wall. My latitude is 41.23 degrees .
Do you have an actual plan that was drawn up for this? (On a computer or paper) I'm sure people would pay money for that... that with the recent upgrades, what worked best etc... best way for the cement and shading and how you put the plants in the best way...
I’m going to have to think about that. Probably around 30ft x 20ft or so. Think about it you were to open a door on a little 8x12 greenhouse…. The majority of the air would exchange with the outside air. I don’t want to say “bigger is better”, but just that it shouldn’t be too too small. 👍
You make a video bragging about how wonderful your greenhouse is , but you show half dead, struggling plants. You say it's the height of the growing season, but nearly the whole place is empty! Do you really think anyone should follow you?
Loved this. I've watched you since CP did his video but it is only today that I realized I could do this on the south face of my large stable, using my large parking lot for horse trailers. Now I have a whole new thing to contemplate.
Thanks
We are thinking of trying this on a smaller scale. Thanks for sharing.
Look into companion planting get the strawberry under an apple tree with garlic, chives and lettuce. Then watch them all go nuts.
Great job. I was going to build a greenhouse with a similar design about 6 years ago. The excavation work was all done, but Life gave me a curve ball and I didn't complete it. After everything calmed down I bought a Farmers Friend tunnel which worked pretty good in my zone 4 climate. In the NW corner I put in some 4" foam board and covered the sides and top with glass and ran a milkhouse heater on the 32° setting that keeps the plants from freezing. The rest of the tube is mostly kale, carrots, Celeriac, celery, Leeks and onions, which do fine in freezing conditions. My main problem was slugs. I think that they were introduced from a yew plant that I purchased from a nursery. Now I am going to move the tube to another location and hope that it will be clean from slugs.
Use beer in dishes. It will lure the slugs into the beer and kill them. I'm sure they would even go for lucky beer witch is cheep and gross.
Feed and water the tangerine. Many citrus drop all their leaves after fruiting. MyMeyer lemon trees do. They come back blooming. Smells divine! Beautiful greenhouse, I've been looking at the ancient Chinese greenhouse plans. Bought a few books on them.
I didn’t know they did that after fruiting. Maybe there is hope for the little guy. Glad I didn’t pull it yet.🙏✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam Hey, with trees you should treat them as living for about a year before giving up. Many transplants and less-than-natural changes can stagnate many trees for a full cycle.
@@calysagora3615 Thank you. 🙏 I feel much better that I might not have killed it. 😂🙏
happy greetings from Edmonton
Wow. Very well thought out!
Thank you my brother, so kind to share Im doin it on my own. Love your family
Fantastic project, thank you for sharing. Looking forward to future updates and how the garden evolves 👍🏻
Great video! I’m looking for an affordable piece of land to start my projects…your channel is a great resource of information. Thanks for sharing!
You rock dude! keep it up!
Best design I have ever seen.
Great design! I will be moving to Alaska in a few months and hope to build something along the same design. Well done!
I planted a garden for the first time in my life this year - I am not young. Take care.
Really enjoy your video's. Sold house in southern ON. Bought abandoned farm near Timmins, ON.
!65 acres. I'm basically using your model to set up my small farm. The planting info for apple tree's and berry's, the insect control methods has been awesome. i'm 3 months in and overwhelmed but your video's are a source of inspiration. Thank you and please keep them coming. also having major territorial problem with tree swallow nesting boxes. 100 feet apart is not far enough. Going to surround the homestead with them. thanks
Your way of explaining things by experience is gold to me. Thank you for sharing. i wish i can inspire from it when it'll be time to build my garage/house/greenhouse.
Nice job on your greenhouse!
I love this keep up the great work.love to see an update with the concrete in. Also if you ever need ventilation for anything let me know. I build commercial chicken barns for a living and access to alot of stuff from around the world.
excellent job.
Just found your channel. I love your videos and am now a subscriber!
Thank you for your time and effort, truly inspiring. Your video and Canadian Preppers came up same time, choose yours first going to watch his next. Absolutely love the greenhouse, a major goal for my future.
I am at 47.25 latitude and my green hose just has vertical windows so today only the front bed has full sun. It is 20X20 feet which is enough to bring my wicking barrels in for the winter. During the summer the north section grows New Zeeland spinach that likes the shade and tolerates both hot and cool temperatures. I need to do the super insulated roof.
Verticals windows is more energy efficient in the winter; but less room in summer. I had to compromise what I thought was best overall. 👍✌️
I imagine herbs would grow well along the back garden area that is shaded now.
Thanks. Just found your channel. I’ll go watch all your content
And an old retired postman in Nebraska digs an 8-ft deep trench on the North floor of his greenhouse so it's below grade and is geothermally heated and cooled. And he's slightly angles the north wall down so it reflects the winter sun onto the back side of the trench. Look up geothermally heated and cooled greenhouse in Nebraska it's a great video.
And because it's cooler but below grade the the plant can be taller so he grows orange trees nectarine trees that have been in there for 25 years and produce the best quality citrus at that latitude.
I’ve watched his videos probably 20 times. Love the concept as well. My water table is very high and was worried about going down, plus our sun angle in the winter is 14 degrees, so every 1 foot down literally shades many feet of the greenhouse. If a guy had a hill and wanted to build a concrete wall on the north to hold the soil back or something, or a earth ship type of thing, that would be awesome too. Hard to do for me connecting to my shop. Lots of cool ideas, but I stand firm on my “always spend the money on super insulation”. A guy only has so many resources available as well. 🙏✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam those videos are awesome and you're way further north than he is... And you are the expert I'm just a casual observer who wishes he had the room. Thanks again
I love this so much!
Wish I was closer I'd love to come over and help with the pour
Appreciate that. That will be one job I will be subbing out, because it’s just too big for just me. ✌️🙏
Your music reminds me of 80s Atari games... particularly the baseball! 😆
awesome! I want one!
Great stuff man!
so cool. love what you do!
I really love your greenhouse, I keep reviewing your videos on the build hoping I can find a way to build one. I’m at a similar latitude, eastward between the lakes. I used to live in Saskatoon so I’m familiar with the weather there. We have very similar weather here. You have done a fantastic job of creating your space and I hope it serves you and your family well. I freeze dry my produce and do a lot of canning, but having fresh fruit and veg in the winter is the best. The last 2 years of growing food in outdoor gardens has been extremely challenging. We grow about 1 acre of veg each year 2/3 of which we donated to our local rural food bank which saw a major drop in donations 2 years ago. Last year we had drought and temps of 28-35 for most of the summer - watering was a 7 day a week adventure. This year everything was flooded, our farm garden was under water and with all the rain we have been getting, it’s still unusable, hopefully the rain will ease up in the next week or two so we can get in there and plant greens which still have time to grow. Fortunately where our house is located we were not flooded, but the gardens there have been challenging to plant. We are fortunate to have raised them with compost and top soil about 18” above the original surface, they were still wet on the underside, but I was able to get in there in bare feet and plant seeds which are all now coming up. I sink up to my shins in some places, it looks funny to see these deep foot prints on each side of the rows. The soil is staying moist and most of the water is draining down to the clay undersurface. In desperation this year due to the excessive rain and an immediate need for planting space we bought a 30x40 greenhouse and filled it with the same compost and top soil mixture- were able to plant our tomatoes, peppers, celery, cabbage, cauliflower, sprouts and herbs in there - it saved our plants from dying in their starter pots. We have 3 smaller 10x20 greenhouses where we start our plants each year in April, they have front and back doors that roll up so even when it’s only 4C outside I can roll up the ends and still wear t-shirt and shorts while working, They do get hot. The 30x40 has roll up sides and front and back doors which allow the breeze to keep the temp reasonable. Hopefully the weather next year normalizes, if not, well even though our hearts and minds tell us we are young, our bodies tell us otherwise and we may have to cut back on the work load. Good luck on your continued build, looking forward to seeing future videos.
Wow. Great work. Yes, growing food sure has its challenges. The greenhouse too. But the greenhouse does minimize some challenges as well. All the best. ✌️
We've been watching your Best Greenhouse Design for us in the north. Thank you for your updates on it too. We are so very interested in setting up your design. We are in Northwestern Ontario, which is 8 hours east of Winnipeg Manitoba.
So great to hear. 🙏✌️
You should really sell blueprints, I would buy, albeit not sure I can afford to build something like this yet but I would love to have a greenhouse like yours and would pay for plans
Maybe I’ll do that. Trouble is some things are location specific. Maybe I’d do a whole book someday. 🙏✌️
@@gerretw Very cool to know. Thank you. ✌️
I would definitely be interested in plans or a book. I think a major advantage is being connected to the shop on the north side. I would think that cuts the cold north wind in the winter. Also wondering if you circulate air from shop to greenhouse in the summer to help with cooling, do you reverse that in spring and fall when the green house is warming up? Thought maybe it provides some heat for the shop and would offset costs. 🤷♀️ Thanks for sharing your journey.
@@ArkopiaTH-cam a book would be awesome, if you take preorders I'll pay in advance! and from the comments, I'm sure others would as well
I would buy the plans as well
What beautiful natural light you've got in your greenhouse. Do you have a sprinkler system in there to water them?🙂
Not yet. 🙂
Awesome we all want to move in lol
If it were me, I think I would avoid the the black paint at the line you've drawn. As the angle of the sun gets lower over the summer you'll be collecting heat you don't want during July and August. I would start the black paint wherever the sun is at the end of August. If you find you're not holding enough heat during the winter and spring months you can always add more black paint. The concrete will do a good job at holding the heat anyway, even without the black paint.
That makes good sense. Can always paint further south. 👍✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam Dean I was gonna make a point about the white paint -I wouldn't go too "bright" as the reflection off the floor can make it difficult to look directly at the floor in full sunlight if need be (which could be hazardous if there are hoses, toys, etc to trip over) - a light birch-color or grey-tone might be something to consider. That Banana Tree make this Canadian so proud every time -keep up the great work!
@@thewitchyprepper8396 I like that idea. Thank you. 🙏
I do similar projects but in little scale (4×8) ft. And works great 👍 I don't have big space because is used on winter for accumulated the snow pushed from the tractor but....if I talk with my municipal office maybe I can make a medium sized dome for try something better. Obviously all by myself like always 😅👋
Consider something like this; not a dome. Depends where you are, but the sun is never up or north. All the best. 👍
@@ArkopiaTH-cam hi thanks for reply ...I'm leaving in stanstead, sud Quebec or derby line with Vermont
Have you tried hugelkulture raised beds? They work wonders for me here in upstate NY. Once my plants start producing or at least having some decent size I rarely have to water them.
Yes, they work good. 👍
I love your greenhouse the way you designed it and everything about your way of life your work ethic and the way you buy smart.
So I don't know if this would work but if it could work you would be the guy to figure out how to do it and here's my thought:
Don't paint your sidewalk White rather plant it with plants you can walk on that could provide some other food source for maybe rabbits that you allow to clear the path I don't know but I'm sure you could figure something out.
Thanks for the videos
That’s a great idea. I’ve even seen one guy did worm bins under a pallet walkway. I’m pretty sure my wife will be lining the concrete with plants in pots. It’ll be a jungle either way. Thanks for the idea. ✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam of course I love having a creak inside a greenhouse so you could just make it a 3 ft deep 4 ft wide water tank and put a metal grate over the top of it so you can see the fish or have water plants and have a running current because moving water does something to the ions and or something
... got to have a waterfall no green houses complete without a 20 ft tall waterfall
Lol...
@@Interglacial_optimist Haha. I wish. I thought about an inground koi pond actually. 😂 The possibilities are endless, but my time and energy are always running low. 😂
@@ArkopiaTH-cam thermal Mass like you always say thermal Mass... And you have to be able to swim in it.
@@Interglacial_optimist I may or may not have done the electrical for a hot tub. 😉
mangos like neutral soil with plenty of compost. they hate alkaline soil. if not fungus. try some named types. tree tomato/tamarillo should do really well in there. they love shade moderate temps and grow fast.
Do they like their soil on the more wet or dry side?
@@jsoph2143 tropical so wet but not swamp. lol
Awesome!!!
Northern hemisphere readers sit in the twilight-shunting sunlight of our longest day to keep us inspired until the moon finally arrives;
Which, by the looks of it, is not going to happen in our neck of the woods (Ottawa,ON region) as, for the most part of the day, thunderstorms... rain and more rain seem to have settled in well into the evening and night... ;-/
Great greenhouse! You need to try mulch my friend, heavy mulch will cut your watering in half maybe? It will help.
I love mulch, but scared of bringing in bugs again in it. Maybe I should mulch now early while it’s open, so when it gets closed up in fall maybe the bad bugs will be gone by then. Had such a fruit fly and aphid problem bringing in mulch last fall.
I've been reading this book by Phil Nauta, 'Building Soils Naturally'. Phil opines that insects and disease only affect our plants if our plants are unhealthy in some way. He argues that insects and disease choose hosts based on nutritional imbalances in the host and that in fact insects do not have the necessary enzymes to digest truly healthy plants. Phil writes about Francis Chaboussou concluding the imbalance shows up as an excess of soluble nitrogen and sugars in the plant, and explains, this excess can be caused by many things with soil imbalances mentioned foremost. Insects love imbalanced plants! Phil also loves mulch, particularly living mulches. He advocates for a mulch layer throughout the year. He's an interesting guy.
My wife would be putting out the apple cider vinegar for the fruit flies and I would plant Nasturtiums as a trap plant for the aphids, also marigolds as they attract predatory insects that eat aphids etc.
Thank you! This was very educational for me. Although I don't live in Canada I live in the high desert of Central Oregon at about 4,200 ft. Our winters are cold our summers are hot, so I'm thinking of shading the north end of my 10x24 ft hoop house, which runs north and south on the property. Do you think that would make a similar difference as in your greenhouse design? Thank you again, love the video, Happy solstice 🌞and Happy gardening 🌱!
Really, it’s just insulating where the sun never is, and glazing where the sun is when you want it. Give it some good thought, look up your sun angles, and make it work. 👍✌️
Only seems to lack airflow.
I'm in northern Ontario, how did you find getting a building permit? Did you need to get an engineered stamp on things or?? I know rules are different between the provinces, but any tips would be much appreciated!
Agriculture buildings on ag zoned land that is an active farm have no permits for ag buildings in my area. 👍
I also forgot it was summer solstice today. 🤗
I wanted to forget.
Always arrives too soon
Does it really mater if concrete was black or white when all is inside greenhouse? I mean black will get more heated but white will just reflect heat inside greenhouse, all heat will be inside. White will just heat air better then black.
You want the heat to accumulate in the concrete, so it slow releases back at night. Just like black water barrels, or stone around a fireplace. 👍
When do you collect the seeds from plants you let go to seed?
Depends. The mrs collected flower seeds yesterday. With the greenhouse, our timelines are out of wack compared to outside growing that we’re used to. 👍
Do you have a link to buy some fruit trees I seen oranges and your banana tree I’m looking and it’s hard to find a place for good fruit trees that ship I’m in Ontario thanks
I love your greenhouse. But I have not enough space to build something like this. So I thought about a big lean on green house to my house. It isolates the house too. I should get rid of the carport, no matter. But: I live in an 170 years old house. There is monument protection. Even in the middle of nowhere (German bureaucracy. Regard the irony: a carport is allowed, but not a big lean on greenhouse). So I'm thinking about a few little greenhouses. Until a certain space they are allowed without permission from authorythies. I'll figure it out.
You must know: in Germany, it's forbidden to poop in the wood, because it could contiminate the groundwater. Great problem to all our bushcafters, who are not allowed to sleep in the woods. And German woods: you walk half an hour an the wood ends. In most regions.
My question - it looks like you put panels over your water barrels, I presume to reflect the light back and keep the sun off the water. Am I correct?
Water barrels aren’t in yet…. Right after concrete floor goes in. 👍🏻
@@ArkopiaTH-cam are the water barrels solely for thermal mass? Are you going to paint them black for max absorption of the solar energy? Or are they also for rainwater to water the garden?
@@gerretw Solely for mass. Just dead water in black barrels. They are black already
I watched alot of your videos I have 7 kids so I may have missed it but how big is this. Mine is going to be close of 36x48. How high front glass wall and rear back wall. My latitude is 41.23 degrees .
43 deep and 72ft of south frontage
Do you have an actual plan that was drawn up for this? (On a computer or paper) I'm sure people would pay money for that... that with the recent upgrades, what worked best etc... best way for the cement and shading and how you put the plants in the best way...
Just a sketch. Trouble is a blueprint is based on, and changes with your latitude. (Sun is different)
@@ArkopiaTH-cam Thanks
How big do you think it needs to be for it to work wintertime with minimal heating?
I’m going to have to think about that. Probably around 30ft x 20ft or so. Think about it you were to open a door on a little 8x12 greenhouse…. The majority of the air would exchange with the outside air. I don’t want to say “bigger is better”, but just that it shouldn’t be too too small. 👍
How do you work out the 61.3 degrees at summer solstice at 53 degree north ?
Lots of online resources. A simple one is this: geotimedate.org/sun/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon
How do we calculate what angle is ideal for our latitude?
Lots of online sun calculating resources. You can find your solstice angles based on your location. ✌️
hydroponics?
Maybe a little. Mostly soil
tropic of cancer. yes?
My own little Tropic of Cancer. We are central Canada. 👍✌️
You make a video bragging about how wonderful your greenhouse is , but you show half dead, struggling plants. You say it's the height of the growing season, but nearly the whole place is empty! Do you really think anyone should follow you?
Hi Chuck. I’m half-asked trying to grow things on a construction site. Please click that unsubscribe button.👋 ✌️