Welcome to another update of our indoor window garden. Today we talk about the advantage of a window garden as an alternative to a passive solar greenhouse in a cold northern climate. In our experience the window garden has preformed very well growing year round in Zone 3 (temperature here can go ...
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Where to grow an edible window garden
Location is everything when it comes to a successful garden. It is the same with an indoor garden. Your edible window garden will greatly depend on the windows you have. Not every window is equally good for a window garden, let's see where to grow an edible window garden. Choose the best window for ...
Roofing With a Pond Liner
The old garage that we converted to a food production place came with a real challenge. The big building has a roof with a very low 1-12 slope. This type of roof tends to leak when covered with roof metal sheets, especially if the sheets overlap in the middle like ours did. I tried different ...
A Greenhouse for Winter Growing
What does a greenhouse for winter growing in January look like if you live up north in Canada? About 3 years ago we started the adventure of Turning a Garage Into a Food Production Place. It is time for an update. See how this food production garage has become a "greenhouse" for winter growing. The ...
Winter Growing Conditions in a Greenhouse
For years I was sure that winter is a time when a gardener dreams about the garden, enjoys seed catalogues, and patiently waits for spring. But does it has to be so? What are the conditions for winter growing? Can we do it in a home greenhouse or grow room? What are the winter growing conditions in ...
2 Top Things to Keep a Greenhouse From Freezing
When we started our adventure of building (well, more like rebuilding) a 4 season greenhouse, we were sure that the heating would play the most important role in keeping the greenhouse from freezing in the winter. Guess what, it is not! Are you surprised? Well, we did not expect that either. ...
Turn a Garage Into a Food Production Place
Our urban home came with a huge old garage, a building that looks and is from a time passed long ago. I liked this building right away. While Anna loved the house, I saw lots of potential for this old building. Garage history We do not know how old this building is. While renovating it, I found an ...