Greenhouse Gardening Year Round! What You NEED To Know! 

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Hi, I am here in east Texas too. My Dad used an old water heater to heat his greenhouses. He cut the top off and let the warmth of the heated water fill the greenhouse. It worked fabulous and was very cost efficient.

If you hot those plastic barrels with some 80 grit sand paper, the paint will stick better. There is also a spray you can get from the auto store specifically for getting the paint to stick to plastic better.

I have lived in both south Florida and south Texas, and let me tell you that in the summer in both places it is so hot and humid that anything other than tropical plants will cook and die there!

Hello from MD. Thanks for sharing! You have no idea how much you push me to keep going. I’ve been so stressed, as we all have, and homesteading has given me peace and prepped me for survival. God Bless you!

If you sand the outside of the barrel it will help paint adhere to the surface of the barrel.

This is straight up my alley, I am 100% in the market for something like this in the next few years. Glad to know I can help support your channel when it comes time. God bless you and yours!

Really like all your greenhouse videos. It is on the list of must haves... now we need to get to time and finances lol. I love the idea of stretching our growing season here in Ohio. Thanks for sharing! 🤠

Great video great view.Tree house.Trees 🌲. Summer. Great weather Sounds.

This is a very helpful video for me, thank you.

Excellent video. Great information. Thanks

Nice!

love the bees wax thermostat.... buell motorcycles used the same theory in there motorcycles for years

Just get some barrels that come in black color. They will also be cheaper as black plastic means it has been recycled a few times, hence the burnt out color.

Thanks for the greenhouse video my man. Just fyi, a little surface prep on that drum will get the paint something to stick to. To properly paint anything, surface prep, primer, paint. Scuff with sand paper and wipe very clean with isopropyl alcohol. Then paint and see if that sticks a lot better. It is always recommended to use a primer before painting. Primers are thinner that actually bond to the surface and are designed to get into microscopic crevices to get a consistent coating for the paint to stick to. Thanks again for the video. Helped me out a lot.

Still working on a greenhouse and chicken enclosure.

~If you live in an area with a lot of Black Bears sometimes they like to chew plastic. Then a person could put a Gallagher (or another brand) Electric Fence around your greenhouse to repel Bears. ~Also an open "unvented" Propane Heater does give off dangerous Carbon Monoxide fumes. If you plan to spend a lot of time in your greenhouse keep this in mind.

Just got my Derksen greenhouse this week in southeast Louisiana. I had a solar panel driven fan installed that turns on when it gets too hot. I was thinking of doing passive solar but with so little cold weather here, I think the propane heater may be a better choice. It’s only an8x12 so I hate to use up too much room with water containers. I would like a poly tunnel to go over my citrus trees.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 Thank you very much for the information. 😊😊😊😊

Thank you for all of this information. The fact that you included the price is priceless! By that i mean, info is great but if you don't know what it cost, how can you make a decision???? God bless and keep growing.

Unfortunately I was not able to afford such a nice greenhouse. But nought one last year. It was a 10x20 Quicktent greenhouse. Was supposed to be q0x26 but it wasn't. Didn't even open it until couple of weeks ago. Used it for my potted citrus and avocado tree as well as my fall potatoes. Unfortunately the wind got so high it tore the stitches first thing. So going to order a replacement cover and only put it on when needed. If windy when I need it I will strap tarps on over ot to add some protection. Thanks for another great video....Jeff

Watching from Biliran Island, Philippines sir

Good morning Eric, I enjoyed your video. I don’t think we can have a green house up here. We’re already getting into the teens at night and starting Sunday we’re going to have a week of snow. Furthermore I don’t think a green house can hold the 5-6 feet of snow every winter. We also get high winds at times. Personally we’d Love to grow food year round. Also during the winter months we only get about 3-4 hours of sunlight per day as we live in the mountains. On the up side, we get about 16-17 hours of sunlight during our summer time. We were able to get 5 harvests from our Swiss Chard and multiple harvests from our wax beans as well. Anyhow, have a great day and Be Blessed !

Everything I grow dies lol. I need to keep working on it. Good stuff and keep it up

Does the heat from a compost pile or barrel(s) suffice to keep a greenhouse like your sufficiently warm? I've wondered if this 100% self sufficient way would work. Great vid as always.

Excellent video as always. Very informative. I have a question that the internet doesn't help with. If I bring in exotic plants from other areas of the world and grow them in the greenhouse will they have the same properties they had in their native environment. Like medicinal and health benefit-wise? Just wondering your thoughts on it. Thanks

How did you build your planter boxes , can you show that and how to line or fill with soil?

I’m needing a newer greenhouse - live in Alaska. There’s still at least 18” of snow on the ground😀

For the thermometer, can you help me understand how the Bluetooth works? I thought devices need to be close together to communicate. Is your house close enough to the greenhouse, that it still stays connected? What about when you are away from home - do you still get updates then?

Does that Mr. Heater have a thermostat or do you have to go out and manually turn it on/off before and after the weather dips below freezing?

We are west of you and planning out on a smaller/cattle panel scale. How did your plants handle our last couple big ice storms? I noticed you’re growing in beds. How far off the ground does that make your plants?

Re: Blue barrels to Black...There is paint for plastic...Krylon Fusion for Plastic® , Valspar® Plastic Spray Paint , and Rust-Oleum Specialty Paint For Plastic Spray . If using regular spray paint then your item will need to be primed. (From an internet search).

What about toxicity from the plastic fumes Is there any plastics or other material that do not off gas Anything that off gas it will get into your plants Any suggestion re very welcome

I grow under pine trees and struggle to get enough sun. I do live in South Mississippi, zone 8b, hot and humid, but do you think the shade cloth would be necessary in my situation?

What cover crops do you have in your greenhouse?

I spend so long making a decision, deciding the best thing to do, covering all the bases and not wanting to make a mistake. Therefore I do nothing. BUT when you think that you can't take your money with you, spend it now if you can. My ground is unlevel (slight slope) and was old cow lot pasture. Deep manure. It had to be pushed aside and then it never got leveled properly where I want a greenhouse. It slopes a little but I might make do with that?? A concrete 4x8x16 could fix things. I really didn't want a permanently covered greenhouse because I hoped for rain to do part of that job. See what I mean?? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Good grief.

Do they have one that can be extended a year down the road or so?

How do you protect against pest?

On the shade cloth- how did you figure out what percentage you needed? Why did you choose 40%?

That's funny your bad winds are 25 that's typically a normal day here. Are bad days are 50 to 60 mph with gust of 70

Why can’t I ring the bell? Are they blocking you?

Dude, you totally skipped over California. The largest agriculture producing state in the country

You don't need a greenhouse or polytunnel in Hawaii.

Plastic is not 6mm thick.

Good ads! This is disappointing

That's a very nice looking greenhouse setup you have. If money were no object, I might be tempted to spend the $5,000 or so it likely took to put together exactly what you show in the video. The kit costs $,3000 plus two doors at $100 each. And you didn't say how much for the vent fan kit plus the wiring needed to run it. I'm figuring labor for an electrician to wire to meet code and materials for that part at $300.,.and that assumes you have an easy, close buy wiring junction box to tap into. So we are at $3,500 already. And you said the wood portions were also not included. Materials for 240 linear feet of 1 x 6 wood and sealant to protect the wood likely will cost another $400. You need a 20 gallon propane tank, fuel, and a propane heater, so add in another $150 or so. We are now at $4,050 but we are not done yet. Let's add in 1,000 SF of ground cover material at a cost of another $200. Throw in some Bluetooth monitors, add some electrical lighting and receptacles, run some water lines or install drip irrigation and we are ready to grow veggies. WAIT! Nope, not ready yet. We need those 20 or so pretty metal raised beds full of growing mix to garden in, along with lots of other buckets, bags, pots, and similar veggie containers. Yeah, no doubt about it, that rips a $5,000 budget to shreds to get what you have for growing the family's veggies. What's the length of time needed to recoup that sort of upfront investments anyway, keeping in mind that the tunnel merely EXTENDS the normal growing season. I'm in Jackson, Mississippi, also just like you in Zone 8 b. Our growing season is virtually the same as yours. I typically grow from March to October and sometimes even a little longer WITHOUT any tunnels or bed covers at all. Thus I get an 8 month growing season WITHOUT all the investment you have. Any recovery of the $5,000 cost to grow like you do must therefore come from the EXTRA amount of food I would be able to grow "allegedly" during those other 4 months of the year. Realistically, I don't believe the set up you have would give more than about 2 additional months of food growth, as it really is difficult to grow veggies in the dead of winter due to short daylight, cold temps, and most crops simply not being in sync with a wintertime growth pattern. So do you get, say, an extra $100 worth of food for two extra months using your set up, or $200 per year to count toward payback of the $5,000 it costs for your system? At that rate, it would only take 25 years to recover your gardening investment. Just how long does that UV treated 6 or 8 mil plastic last anyway? It will be exposed to wind much higher than 25 mph in Mississippi at least. We had 50 mph gusts just last week. Plus we get lots of tornadoes and hurricanes. And we get hail nearly every single summer too some of which will rip 8 mil plastic to shreds. Not to mention wildlife that will chew or rip through the plastic sheeting to get inside, like raccoons, possums, skunks, squirrels, and other critters. I'm now 70 years old and have been gardening more than 50 years. I have yet to be convinced that expensive set ups like that pay off in a growing zone such as where you and I are located. It's just too simple to grow for a very long season in our areas without having to invest in that sort of equipment. It's just my opinion but I have a right to express it which I will do. Most of the time, people posting videos like this promoting the sale of expensive equipment are doing so to earn a fee from purchases they persuade others to make. "Influencing" others is profitable. So is getting lots of video views on You Tube. But are the products really worth the cost? In my opinion they are not. I live on a 20 acre homestead property. I've found that many of the ideas of self sufficiency promoted today are not cost effective. That's particularly true for small scale, backyard type gardening set ups. Actual farming operations might be a different story but for the average home grower trying to raise food for their family they would usually be better off simply growing veggies in a less expensive manner.

green houses cost too much