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 ...
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How to Grow Early Peas in an Unheated Greenhouse
The question often comes up if we can grow anything in the greenhouse during the winter, or at least start very early in spring. In zone 3 we do not grow anything in the unheated greenhouse during the winter, instead, we grow an indoor garden. In early spring, however, it is possible to grow even if ...
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 performed very well growing year round in Zone 3 (temperature here can ...
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 ...
Wicking Bed for the Greenhouse
We are in the fourth year of garage greenhouse/growing room growing where we grow food year-round. You can read more about it here. A very important part of a greenhouse is the soil to grow plants in. Since our garage greenhouse, has no soil, we had to come up with a good alternative ...
Award Winning Community Greenhouse
We had the privilege to visit 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 life. We booked a tour and enjoyed a day in ...
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 catalogs 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 a ...
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 ...
Old Windows Temporary Little Greenhouse
The old window temporary little greenhouse idea came out of necessity. As so often in spring, our house was overfilled with plants that had no room at the windows any longer. They had to go out. Hardening off plants before planting them in the garden is important. Instead of carrying all the ...
GeoDome Greenhouse Plant Arrangement
A GeoDome has a round structure which makes it a bit tricky to arrange the plants. But there are many creative ways for a GeoDome plant arrangement. Here I share the plant arrangement for the 18 feet GeoDome. We liked it this way :). The outer raised beds We raised the outer beds a bit, just ...
