This one is going to have a space heater and provide shelter on cold nights. Last spring had a lot of unseasonably cool nights that were rough on my pepper plants and put them behind.
The south wall pulls out by the handles. Two walls, the floor, and part of the roof have 1" Styrofoam insulation. I put in an exhaust blower on a thermostat in case I forget to open the door and it gets too hot.
At some point, I might make a blanket or tarp that rolls up and down for extra insulation. If I had that, I could probably keep cool weather plants alive all winter here in 7b.
by Autumn_Ridge
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Yo I heard you liked greenhouses
I love this!
Looks great! Definitely doable to have pepper plants in greenhouses in 7b. I have them here in 5b.
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I have something similar. We have a row of comercial, glass refrigerators in our greenhouse that we use for starting plants and birds. with a 50 watt bulb in each fridge we can keep the plants above freezing on nights that get close to zero.
You can use roll up side setups to do a thermal blanket from the top down. They also allow you to block sun when needed to cool the greenhouse passively. You just have the rollers touching at the very top and rolling over rather than under so it does not hold snow. The rollers actually clear the snow as they unroll or knock it off the thermal blanket as you roll it up. Fucking heavy though to get up there in the first place.
This is the way 🌱
Russian nesting greenhouse*
I’m building the same thing this summer as a germination space.
Well done
Malionois near a greenhouse inside a greenhouse.
Beautiful Malinios!
A dream…wiff in a dream…
Needs a greenhouse in it…
I did this before. I have a big hoop house and made a 4ft by 8ft raised bed inside and made hoops over it for plastic and had lights, fan and a small heater. It was to keep that “raised bed greenhouse inside a greenhouse” warmer than the main greenhouse so the furnace wouldn’t have to be as high.
I grew lots of kale and romaine lettuce in there. It grew well but the lettuce all molded and couldn’t be used. Now I doy t do it because it was too much effort to take care of it pulling the plastic cover on and off it.
3x greenhouse it ! I need a refrigerator on mine or Mylar screens
House-ception
Cold frame in a cold frame
What humidity does the dog prefer is my q !???
I have wondered about this for cold climates!! I’d be intrigued to have temperature data.
Did this. Have the t-shirt and love it