Underground Greenhouse Tour - Growing Citrus in the Snow! 

It really is!

Yes, please send the link. And I totally agree that now is the time to learn :-) Thanks!

Awesome! Good luck in your efforts!!

Can you imagine how much fun he would have in there! We would have to move him up to the cottage as a permanent resident :-)

@@mantihomestead He would have loved it and he would work for free. He loved gardening. ❤️

Ha! “Rabbit trails” is a great way to say it:) I’d really like to say a lot more by way of warning but it’s just hard to build the Chanel enough to do so:) I’ll get there! My main message is it’s time to prepare, I know ow we are all busy, this is our efforts despite that business:) thanks for watching!!

Thank you! You too! Merry Christmas, and happy new year!

Thank you, sir!

Awesome! Good luck on your efforts!! Nate

Thanks!!

They are doing great! I still need to make my Comfrey compost.

I’ve got a new batch brewing, don’t forget your cow manure compost also get in a drum percolating for spring

Thanks!!!

That’s awesome! Sounds like a fun adventure. Best of luck!

That sounds awesome! We have a historic Airbnb right on the Homestead if you’re interested in that. I did a little video on folk staying in that and getting a greenhouse tour. But whatever works we’d love to help. Thanks.

Will let you know, thanks!@@mantihomestead

Hello, Hello….my schedule is coming together for a business trip Tuesday Jan 2nd I’ll be driving from Delta, CO to SLC and would like to swing through Manti late morning/noon for a greenhouse tour if it works for your schedule? Please inform, thanks and Happy New Year!!@@mantihomestead

That is a good idea. I wish I was just a little more organized :-)

We introduced the finches to help with aphids, and frogs to help with the slugs! We have a specific design for the winter and summer to increase as much ventilation as possible, and so so far I would say it is very healthy because of that airflow. Thanks for watching!

@@mantihomestead thanks for the reply. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on your progress. I would like to do something similar, although I'm not sure if I'll build one larger one like yours or two smaller ones. I have an idea in my head to make one dedicated (mainly) to herbs and aromatics but will have to weigh up the practical aspects of such ideas. One larger one may be the way to go. Do you have info on inside temps and humidity and outside temps in December? In other words how warm can you keep it in the depths of winter. Just thought I'd add, I think your prepping idea is a good one and one that will (excuse the pun) bear fruit. I think the U.S is heading for very hard times with BRICS around the corner and both political parties being insanely corrupt. The latter being a common problem around the world. Western European countries like Germany are in serious jeopardy as well, not to mention idiot nations like Australia. We could be on the cusp of WW3 and when not, it still won't spare us from the economic crash that seems inevitable. Soooo long waffle but, we are going to need to be more self sufficient, live a simpler life, move away from rampant consumerism and try and move back to small community. I'll trundle off now. Take care.

Welcome to the channel! Yeah, I would love to show you the greenhouse and help anyway we can. Did you see the Construction video playlist? That has pretty much everything that we did to ours on it might be helpful. Let me know though if you have any other specific questions. Nate.

When i found your channel i was having a sleepless night and binged watched for about 6 hours. Loved it!!! Our site has a few challenges that we have to take into consideration. When it is convenient to you I would love a tour.

Yes, I would love to show you the greenhouse!

Thanks! Check out “construction video 2” at the end of the video I do a smoke bomb test to show how it works. I really don’t have a good way to quantify how much it actually moves the needle, however. I do know it works. And I do know that the Greenhouse design works. But I don’t have too much info on what I could or couldn’t change. I’ll try to figure some of that out and be as honest as I can when I do. but I hope that video will help you out in any decisions you’re making.

Yes, that would be an awesome video to do.! My wife is actually a little bit more knowledgeable than I am on it. With tomatoes, though you can almost simply just shake it, and the pollen will fall upon itself. I don’t think you would need to use a Brush.

Yeah, the cool thing about this design is during the summer. The water tanks are in the shade, during the winter they are in full sunlight. So it works in my favor in each scenario. During the summer, you definitely don’t want any more of the thermal mass heating up, during the winter you’re desperate for it :-) so it works out really good using the walipini angle technology.

Yeah, it sounds like you have some great ideas! Have you already tried some of them? I’m always interested in different ideas especially ones that are more affordable. I’m hoping to have a gentleman on my channel who is growing citrus in modified hoop houses. He is using compost to heat them. a very affordable way of approaching production.

@@mantihomestead small garden can have greenhouse and if you got plenty of attic space or just window sills empty.. hydrophonics is epic . i havent tried them my self. but my GF does this allot back at home for the herbs. and strawberries seeds i send her! it going so well! hopefully this summer a nice yield seeing last bit we gonne leave it outside for polination by the local bee's!

It is a 55 degree angle on the poly. I think that’s perfect for our area. Puts the most intense sun in January when we are our coldest

Yes! He is a great dude!!

I’m glad you like it! I don’t really have a good breakdown of the cost I need to do that. We chose to have our Grow beds made out of concrete which you could do for a lot cheaper if you wanted. Also, the back wall was concrete, and then we had to cover with metal, if I had more space I could birm up some dirt and save some money there too.

Back up:) and pretty patio lights.

We used to live in Cedar city and that’s where all of our family is at still :-) the snow won’t be an issue at all. I do worry a little bit about the light. You really need that son to heat up the water barrels and the cement. What is blocking the sun? Is it by a mountain or is the house blocking it?

@@mantihomestead thanks for the info! The mountainous terrain and some tall pine trees block the sun primarily in the winter. It’s in a relatively narrow north-south running saddle.

We don’t really have any good solutions for that yet :-) so far hasn’t been too big of a problem. In my next video we’re going to harvest the oranges, grapefruit and passionfruit :-) super excited to share that.

Looking farward. You guys inspire me to full fill my dream of a sunkengreen house i have had for years@@mantihomestead

That’s awesome! Regarding the cold air drop, have you seen the video Construction number two? At the very end, I show some smoke bombs that I put down into the drops to demonstrate their functionality. I hope that helps.

I’m in Nebraska too! What part of the state are you in?

Just southwest of Lincoln

@@adilibrahim2735 omg I’m just south of Firth!

Thanks that’s good to know! Maybe this year!!

Hello we have Mason bees in the greenhouse that do most of that for us. They live year-round. They can pollinate as good as a honeybee, but they are not known to sting humans. But if we do want to hand pollinate, we just grab a brush, and simply do it. Maybe I’ll do a video on that. But we really have not pollinated by hand hardly anything.

We have mason bees in there now that help us out quite a bit. We have Hand pollinated some in the past, but haven’t really really needed to do it.

Similar but a little bit different approach. If you go up to my playlist, look at Construction videos and check out number two and see if that’s helpful. But let me know if you have any other questions.

We use the natural convection of heat rising, and going out the top windows and vents. Creating a vacuum to suck fresh air through the underground earth tubes that are fed from outside the greenhouse.

Nope I get way too much done the way I am:) jk thanks for watching.

Yes, I have two sets of Pipes. If you look at Construction video number two it gives you a pretty good rundown of what we did. One set brings air from outside and goes 8 feet under the ground coming into the greenhouse. Basically to warm up outside air during the winter. It relies on natural convection through the upper windows and vents so that hot air naturally rises and creates a vacuum, sucking the air through those tubes.