Growing a greenhouse garden in a cold climate is like moving a portion of your garden south. There are many greenhouses to choose from for different uses. However, if you intend to grow a greenhouse garden you will need to consider a few things. The soil for growing a greenhouse garden Just like ...
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Car Radiator for Heating and Cooling a Greenhouse
To control the temperature in our GeoDome greenhouse, we used a Water Tank for passive temperature regulation and also an old car radiator for active heat exchange. To use a gas or electric heater can be costly. This used car radiator did the trick for us. No, it's not really a beautiful piece in ...
Update: GeoDome Greenhouse Water Tank
To have a greenhouse in colder climates is very valuable. It helps to extend the growing season and gives the plants a lot more heat. Although on some days there is more heat than the plants can use, the greenhouse gets way too hot. A good way to regulate the temperature in a greenhouse is by ...
An Alternative to a Passive Solar Greenhouse – Indoor Window Garden
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 ...
Controlling aphids with No-Pest strips
For years I thought that cold and frost are our biggest foe, but not any longer. With the indoor garden we can grow food even in -40 degrees. However, what turns out to be a real challenge is pests. Aphids, spider mites and scales can easily ruin an indoor or greenhouse garden. We mostly have to ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
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 ...
Award Winning Community Greenhouse
Welcome to another edition of the ‘You Share‘ series. This time we visited the award winning, passive solar community greenhouse and permaculture gardens from Groundswell Network Society in Invermere, BC. We had heard about this greenhouse and seen videos about it and were eager to see it in real ...
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. ...