How I grow food year-round despite harsh winters

Thanks Beeches!

This.

Five stars.

The OP has the address of his website on the first page. He was giving tours. There is contact information on his website.

I have a couple of house l plants who need their own greenhouse!

He explains how HOT it gets in a winter greenhouse. This one has double wall construction with the inflation fan.

Winter Growing in a Greenhouse


Very instructional, with explanation of ventilation, irrigation, etc. All passive, set up for cold weather.

Elliot Coleman is a fellow who has do his own, written and lectured about gardening, specifically winter gardening.

The Winter Harvest with Eliot Coleman


He explains about traditional methods of winter gardening, such a cold frames, using manure to heat, etc.

Glad to see this fabulous thread revived!

Outstanding example of human ingenuity ...I saw the hydroponics setup @ the University of Fla.(Gainsville)...incredible!

Good to see you here!

I emailed the OP, maybe he will come back and give us updates

That must have been a fun tour!

I'm amazed too at what people are doing and posting threads about.

There are so many ways to grow food that are new to home gardens and commercial growing too.

This scheme of growing veggies in a vertical tower system looks pretty good to me. Also looks pretty good to John Kohler. What I like is that in a small family greenhouse, it can multiply the amount of crops you can grow. Or if you have maybe only a balcony for grow space, you can still grow a lot of fresh food, especially if you plant cut and come again plants like the various lettuces, preens like spinach or chard, broccoli and brussels sprouts which will bear little heads again after the first harvest.

awesome but how does one grow pizza and hamburgers in it?

poppies and marijuana too?

John Kohler again, explaining the vertical pallet garden. I was going to build on last year but hurt my arm badly and couldn't do much. But my pallet is waiting for me in the shed and I'll be into it in just a couple of months..

Build a Hanging Vertical Pallet Garden to Grow Food on Walls


There are plenty of other people doing this who have made videos too.

Last Edited by Lily o' the Valley on 02/07/2017 06:46 PM

OP, this is an awesome thread, if people follow your lead so much suffering and want can be stopped.

But I live in South Louisiana and we are just overcome with copper heads and moccasins (poisonous snakes). Do you have any suggestions on how to keep them out of the greenhouse?

They are always looking for water, food and a warm place.

Thanks for any thoughts.

duh, with the holy spirit.

If I were going to do a tiny space garden, like between a driveway and a fence, or on a balcony, I would plant one of these pallet gardens and plant tomato and cucumber in containers on either side.

If you plant a variety of lettuces or greens at the top, then small carrots the next row down, then green onions or chives the next row, then bush beans at the bottom so that the plants can flop out onto the ground, you can have a nice mini garden that will provide you with veggies and salads all summer. If you can put two pallet gardens in you'll have the equivalent space of a 3'x16' raised garden.

You can buy carrot seed for short carrots, 'baby' carrots or cute round cattots like these [link to www.ufseeds.com]

You can buy seeds for salad varieties which will give you a nice selection of salad makings.

For tomatoes in a container you can get so many kinds of cherry tomatoes, or varieties that are particularly good for containers. Same for cucumbers.

Ferrets?

During World War II and even after, people depended a lot on backyard "Victory Gardens" here in the US.



I had a friend who grew up in Germany who said that the towns would give out "allotments" of ground that was unused for people to grow gardens. She said that her father was the railroad station manager, and they had an allotment next to the tracks.

There is so much waste space in modern America, so little interest in growing food. :-(

Lilly, how do you use ferrets? Are you talking about your pet ferrets? What, do you house them in the Green House. What type of structure is required, food , care?

Thank you for any info you have

Today most take advantage of the welfare system, they would not know how to become self reliant if you taught it to them.

I have no idea, I have never had a ferret.

But I know they kill snakes. Maybe you should just google 'pet ferret' and see what they say.

Or maybe somebody else has raised them.

Wow! A ration book!

Let's hope we never have to use one of those!

I read on a thread by Tess that they are rationing lettuce in UK because the farms in Spain had a crop failure. That thread is what prompted me to revive this one.

You are certainly right about people just taking advantage of welfare.

That is really sad.

Russia's dacha system of family gardening provides about 40% of the nation's food.

So interesting.
[link to www.underwoodgardens.com]

[link to naturalhomes.org]

Smarter to contact individual investors with an actual green agenda who know those who can create and market your product. Or give one prototype to me and I'll help you get on Shark Tank.

Goats would eat the plants, plumbing, fish and greenhouse.

Why don't you design and construct a prototype to sell that idea?

Very intriguing.

Got to agree, goats are omnivorous. The only thing they would leave alone would be the metal fixtures and fittings!

LOL

Key to the whole venture is the prototype. It's really hard for some people to visualize.