January & February most of us are longing for spring, warm weather, heading back outdoors and for many getting their hands dirty in the garden! Some of us however, have found a way to get through the 'BLAH" that comes with the cold wet winter weather. Greenhouse gardening is how we do it. Building a greenhouse can cost as little as 150 dollars and at a minimum extend your growing season and depending on your "Garden Zone" could allow you to garden year around. I live in the Memphis TN area (zone 7) and I have been eating fresh tomatoes all winter long. I still long for the warmth of spring but I am eating fresh veggies until it arrives! We now have 4 large greenhouses standing and 3 more on the farm that are yet to be built. Go Play in the dirt and God Bless! Chuck
You guys are amazing! Someone once told me I could not make a million dollars growing produce. You my friend are on your way to just that, it's going to be a huge complex when you're done. Congrats on your expansion. Your customers are going to be so happy with the added output from these new greenhouses.
Thank you so much. That means so much coming from people like you guys. We are on this journey together my friends. I just need to be able to stay healthy enough to finish building these monsters. Take care! Chuck and Darlene
Nice video. sure will be a job to get all the plants out of the end of that long greenhouse. just cleaning up for the fall in my greenhouse ,strawberry are doing great . thanks again for sharing
Interesting pump set up. What sort of gpm are the pumps? I take it the 1st one is a submersible and the 2nd an inline? I'm having the worst luck with finding pumps that don't burn out in a months time and my wet wall is tiny compared to yours. Finding ones that will pump the height (rise) is tough. The pumps I find that will do that are too many gpm and need to be restricted. I think that's what is maybe burning them out, too much back pressure.
VERY NICE! Very SUPER CHEAP, yet TOTALLY PRACTICAL and USABLE! I need to build something like that so I can reach the ceiling part of the greenhouse I’m building.
@@Savedbygrace356 thanks for supporting us. We hope you enjoy them! We will be at the Lightfoot pet swap market next week as well. Hope to see you there? Chuck
@@FesterWerks Thanks Mark ( I hope I remembered your name correctly). It’s been a while huh? Thanks for hanging with me all these years my friend. Chuck
@@FensterfarmGreenhouse You got it right. And after I posted the comment, I had to check other videos to make sure *I* got *your* name correct. Saw your PVC greenhouse construction from, lets see, ages ago! So glad to see continuing to expand after all this time.
I’m curious. Does anyone know what size hoop he used ? He doesn’t mention it in the video . They come in different sizes . That’s why , I’m guessing , he mentions the mesh being 42 1/2 inches . I assume that it has to do with the size of the hoop as to what size piece of mesh you use .
This farm literally has a life of its own. The produce sells itself and God has blessed us. No doubt about it! Thanks for following us along in this journey! Chuck
This farm literally has a life of its own. The produce sells itself and God has blessed us. No doubt about it! Thanks for following us along in this journey! Chuck
Excellent 👍. Thank you 😊👍 I just got but 4 times on my foot and leg. Came in to see what I can do and came across your vide. Thank you for sharing I'm going to try it 😁
Bro i just figured out about this so am doing research and found your vid … bro i lost over 50,000 lettuce so far …. But today I started taking back my system from them!!!! Now I know my enemy!!!! Great vid buddy
I have learned more about these monsters lately. They breed in algae so get rid of that and treat the areas with a product called wet n forget. Fog with a product called NoFly weekly for 3 weeks to kill living aphids and weekly to get the ones as they hatch out. Best of luck my friend. Chuck
I believe that those are root aphids. They breed in and on algae.get rid of the algae then hit the spots where the algae was with a product called wet n forget and fog the greenhouse with a product called NoFly. Fog every 4 days for 2 weeks to kill anything that hatches out. Good luck
@@MikeEdwards-pc4qf Are you using Oasis root cubes? My wife thinks that they 1st came in on those. If you break them apart while the infected plant is growing in it, you can see them inside the cubes. Just curious. If you can move your lettuce before it is 7 weeks old that will also help cut down the population, it seems. In the summer our lettuce grows much faster and I am able to sell it before those @#$@$@# hatch out breaking the gestational cycle. I'm just speculating but this is how we are dealing with them currently. The NoFly and pressure washing helps us a lot. Let me know how it goes for you and send me anything that you try that is effective as well.
Ok thanks I think most of the time they may be coming in by the curtain next to the wall that’s where we see them at first on the return side of the NFT trays
Dutch buckets, never a fan regardless of how I did it. Vidawool slab system, I didn't realize they still sold that stuff. Won't cleaning be labor intensive?
yeah. I have several of the actual brand name Bato buckets if I ever do that again. The ones we got rid of were some that I made. I'm excited about the Vidawool slabs. Not sure how it will go yet though. We will learn together my friend. Chuck
The strawberries are grown in strawberry bato buckets. I get them from CropKing. I have vinyl gutters below the buckets for drainage. I have watched wishwell farms. They have an amazing operation and beautiful tomatoes. He uses both bato buckets and coconut coir slabs to grow tomatoes in. I’ll be using something called vidawool. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching and commenting! Chuck
Thanks WhiskyDog. I know you know what it takes to make a farm productive. Always more to do than we’ll ever get done! Thanks for your kind words my friend! Chuck
A vidawool slab system. If it goes well I am building a 20x100 greenhouse (greenhouse #6) next to #3 that I’ll fill with that system. It looks promising and this is our way of trying something before we invest a lot of money into it. Stay tuned! Thanks for following! Chuck
It did work and I used several in that tomato house, however I have since converted that greenhouse into another NFT system to grow lettuce and leafy greens. Make sure that if you use the bees that you build a water wall or something to keep the temperature down in there. I lost many of the first batch to the heat in there until I built the water wall. Hope that helps? Chuck
That plastic liner lasted about 3 years and was replaced when the greenhouse collapsed in a snow and ice storm. When I rebuilt the greenhouse I changed everything in it to an NFT system instead of floating rafts and Kratky systems. We are a commercial hydroponic farm now so NFT scales better for us. Hope that helps? Chuck
Hmmm… I don’t know. Might be worth a try. I think you’d have to find a way to cover them since they like that in the dirt. If you get too much of the bulb in the water it will rot so be careful with that as well. Let me know how it turns out for you. I’m curious! Chuck
Chuck i did the same thing as you are doing went i starting 8 differ places . 2 places i help at night , the first one was a 60 130 ,then 20 48 then i bought 120 120 i got to put up a60 120 the other were 30 96 i raised flower, and had 5 a, of produce .
New to your channel ,was watching homegrown passion had a shout so been watching you today, nice channel . been growning strawberry about 8 years ,went to crop king bato strawberry getting bigger berrys now,
