Shade cloth, straw, cold shaded air intake/hot air exhaust fans and a LOT of Misting!
Misters are controlled via my B-Hyve Gen2. They're on a timer but on days like yesterday it took multiple 10min manual mistings. I use YoLink for temp monitoring and data recording. Works great! The cold air intake is in a box at the shaded back part of the greenhouse. Its the spiderfarmer 6in air ventilation kit running to the back of the ground level box fan. Not sure how much it helps but I sealed the whole greenhouse with silicon so there's not much air intake otherwise.
The whole system is powered by grid and solar via an automatic transfer switch with smart plugs and power strips that I can control remotely.
All cucumbers, squash and tomatoes thrived!
by OverlyManlySnail
5 Comments
Way to go! I’ve roasted my plants before. I hate to be the one to tell you this but shade cloth goes on the outside of the greenhouses stop sun waves from coming in. It looks worse but it will do a lot more
Nice job!!
Damn. This is way smart.
Are you able to grow past the typical growing season? Here in Austin, were basically done growing most of the traditional garden veggies because it’s too hot now.
Shade cloth is a HUGE game changer. Nice setup!