Vegetable Garden Inexpensive mini green house to start you seedlings in the winter. Visit The Bayou Gardener in Avoyelles Parish Louisiana – Cajun Country at www.thebayougardener.com
Vegetable Garden Inexpensive mini green house to start you seedlings in the winter. Visit The Bayou Gardener in Avoyelles Parish Louisiana – Cajun Country at www.thebayougardener.com
@swanz199 …Not quite…..Donald
I thought Louisiana was almost tropical? LOL!
Great vidio
Great vidio
@dkulikowski …Just watched your video and commented. Thanks….Donald
I have this same shelf. This year I used a king clear plastic mattress bag, furniture store charged me $5.. Yes it gets hot, even in Wisconsin. I make a slit in the plastic, about 3/4 of the way up, so I can access the plants easily. The king size plastic gives me plenty of width so I can fold the slit shut & use clamps to keep it closed up tight. Last year the wind got hold of it and over it went plants and all. This year I bungeed it to the basketball backboard. Check out my ROLLING SHELF GH
@GreenSolarGarden …I find peppers take awhile to come up unless started on a heat mat inside the house. They like it nice and warm……Donald
Nice idea to use the shelving. I have a little greenhouse and I leave it open six inches at the top to let the excessively hot air out. Given the fact that yours is twice the size, perhaps two six inch openings would do. It will still maintain a nice level of heat to allow germination. I had difficulties this year with my peppers and melons. I had to let them dry out a little and put them in the direct sunlight. Too much love (or water in this case) was the culpret. Some like it & some do not.
fan may help the circulation to go all the way thru the planting area. keep it more of one tempature as you go down fromr lvl to lvl.. maybe put the fan on the bottom…?
Funny animals arnt they.. how cool is that.
My thought would be maybe you can use some cloth on the backside. that may help with circulation of air and then the plastic on the sides and front for the lighting..Just a idea… maybe. place a small fan inside?
Hadn’t figured out just exactually what I’m going to do with it this winter. May just use the plastic again. Would love to use plexi glass but that’s kind of expensive…….. Donald
Please do a video on what you done for the comming up year. i would really like to see it. been talking with someone that uses the pads and said every seed will germinate better at different tempatures. anyhow. let me know it would be great to see. i want to try somthing like that eventually.
Glad things worked out for you. I normally start my seedlings 6-8 weeks ahead of planting time…….. Donald
Where I live 90 IS summer.. and this year we didn’t get much of it.. I started my plants in March this year and moved them to my enclosed porch which gets a lot of sun but nights were cooler so I used heavy plastic bags around the bottom of them and it worked wonders.. have to start some things earlier this year though so they are bigger when I put them in the garden.
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Gardening supply places sell heating mats, and respectively thermostats as well as timers. The mats are waterproof, and designed for seed flats. Make sure you’re NOT using an “electric blanket” or anything that’s bedding or therapeutic related as they are not designed with wet environments in mind. Cheers! In the end, the greenhouse is a lot better bang for the buck. A single mat+thermostat will run about 50$.
I had to listen real well before I picked it up. The neighbor has several horses which are fenced about 50 ft. from my shop. That crunching sound towards the end is my dog eating pecans…… Donald
at 1:06 is tht a horse?
For a spring / summer garden you can start your seedlings 6-8 weeks before the last frost date in your area. Cool weather crops like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage that can be planted earlier need to be started earlier…… Donald
I had a thought…. maybe holes in the top would work… a couple maybe 4, what do you think… I have 3 stands I could use to start my seedlings… any suggestions on when to start my seedlings… I am ready now
Thank you!!! I need all the advice I can get :)!!
If you have a green house set up like the one in the video try putting a bucket of compost on the floor under the plastic. Compost gives off some heat as it decomposes.
That solved one problem I was having, now birds are eating the seedlings I have on an open rack next to this one. You can hear them in the video. Ordered some netting and will install that next.
Just watched your video on raising worms, which happens to be on my “to do” list for 2009. Thanks …… Donald
Great video, thank you for shareing it.
Thank you so much! The timer is a great idea!!!