My garden isn’t working anymore. I can no longer fight the bad weather where I live. The winters are too cold. The summers are too hot, humid and wet. We get great weather during spring and fall, but those seasons aren’t long enough to get good harvests. So what are my opinions? Either quit, or make a change.
I am changing how I grow food in my garden, and it will never be the same. I can’t beat Mother Nature, so I am redesigning my garden to help take her out of the equation. Will this new garden design actually work? I don’t know, because I have never done anything like this before. I have high hopes, but it’s risky. Come see the the changes I am making in this garden update and why I am ripping up my garden and starting over.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 My Garden Keeps Dying
1:58 My Garden Teardown Plan
4:07 How I Built A Roof Over My Garden
7:11 Gardening Under A Roof
12:32 Garden Progress Update
15:07 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 My Garden Keeps Dying
1:58 My Garden Teardown Plan
4:07 How I Built A Roof Over My Garden
7:11 Gardening Under A Roof
12:32 Garden Progress Update
15:07 Adventures With Dale
Yup. That's what you have to do.
Just get a high tunnel. Whats the big deal. You going cheap is going to cost you. Spend 2k on a heavy duty high tunnel. But let's wait and see.
I got two puppies three years ago, the boy will destroy anything, but if you give something to the girl when you come in the house, and then take it away after a couple minutes, I found that she will protect those stuffed animals for me destroyed from the voice as well. I have goldendoodles, they get extremely excited and jump all over the place when you come home, and the little girl always would pick up one of her toys and run around with it.
THIS method should eliminate all of your Water-From-The-Heavens issues. Excess water drains out the bottom.
https://youtu.be/QHY5lQNYA6k?si=da3o0U9-0swEKNOF
You should dedicate some of your garden space to Carolina Gold rice! Turn the lemons into lemonade.
Ok stop… I built homes of all types and remodeled homes of all ages.
You just built a massive rain catch that's going to puddle with rainfall and collapse.
You cannot span 8-10' gaps using 1x4s or even 2x4s. Water will weight down the plastic and immediately sag and youll have to cut the apex of the saggy plastic to drain it.
You can keep your sloped 2x4s on that pitch but you need other 2x4s running laterally as your supported structure. Use the 1x4s down the slope on the long run to keep water from pudding so it drains off without being impeded by your lateral 1x4s.
I tried this even the right way in the PNW and one winter the snow load collapsed all of my small shelters using plastic with 6-8" of snow overnight.
Best general rule of thumb is 1×4 spans 2ft, 2×4 spans 4ft, 2×6 spans 6ft, 2×8 spans 8ft, 2×10 spans 10ft, 2×12 spans 12ft…. Etc. When you double the width you double the span. 4x4s can span 8ft, 4×6 spans 12ft, etc.
Be sure to "Crown" your lumber so the crown faces upwards so overtime the weight and time will pull that crown downward.
Best option is to place a 2×4 laterally between the sloped 2×4's every 4ft, then lay 1x4s down the slope every 24-30" max.. The closer the 1x4s the less risk of puddles forming.
We get rain here 8 months every year. Trust me. This is going to crash down or become a massive puddle the first major rainfall. To attach the plastic either roll the plastic around the lumber of use several layers of duct tape over it before it's stapled.
Hi ray here I’m a carpenter from Newfoundland just a suggestion I think you should put more 2/4’s on the roof. If you get rain like you said all that plastic is going to sag cause to big of a span just a suggestion love your videos 👍👍👍
Its is the rain alright thats killing you garden, But its not from to much rain ! The Government has been putting something in the air through the JETS that you see SPRAYING some sort of CHEMICALS in the air and its killing garden vegetables and youing plants. I just had started my seedlings and they were doing excvellent until I thought a light sprinkle of rain would be great, Thats exactly what I got, A little sprinkle and thats all it took too destroy my seedlings, all dead the next morning!
I would have gone a little more than 2% on the pitch. Rain will gather in the center pools before it can drain off.
Try adding more one by fours in the center sections. Hoping all goes well with your gardening this year
are your hoops pvc or something else? Where did you get the connector pcs?
Attaching the plastic to the roof: If one of your strips is wider than the other, you can wind the plastic around the short one and screw to the wider one, then screw the wider one to your trusses. That way, should a forecast call for a temporary removal, you won't unscrew then rescrew the plastic itself.
Do you have any recommendations for an all in 1 seed grow setup. That comes with the dome, grow light, heat pad. Im new and want to try growing my vegetable from seed. Just dont want yo spend arm and leg yet until i know this is something i can do. I love your channel and all the info. Thank you so much sir
100% you need a tunnel. I’m interested to see how you can do it cheap.
this is so ironic. here we are in CA hoping for some rain and we don't get a drop of rain for 10 months straight!
I love this project! As with most aspects of gardening, we are always learning. It's going to be fun to watch your progress. Enjoy the journey! 😊
I forsee massive pooling issues in your future. Your greenhouse plastic is NOT going to last very long.
run 2×4's across the front of the lower end of the roof. wrap the greenhouse plastic around it and attach guttering along that edge. you could then collect the rain water and use it as needed for the beds under the roof. IPC tote or a series of 55 gal/barrels plus you can direct the excess away from your garden. this slight upgrade won't cost you a lot more but add some versatility. to that area.
Try coming to New Mexico…the thin atmosphere allows the sun to act like a blow torch. Even a full shade didn't help last summer with temps in the high 90s to 100 for long stretches. And little to no rain and wind that blows for hours a day. Not to mention the invasive roots from nearby juniper and yucca trees. And the critters…I swore I wouldn't garden this summer…but I'm going to try a few plants. I just refuse to spend more on the garden than I would spend for veggies at the market!
Man, that's too much! Just go to the farmers' market or local u-pic farm and get a tomato.