How Our Winter Garden Survived -23°F (-31°C) With No Heat

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Highlights:
0:22 How we protected plants from the cold

0:22 Didn't remove snow from north wall and bottom of hoop house

0:50 Covered outside and inside of door with 6 mil greenhouse film

1:52 Why I did not use supplemental heat

2:23 Covered cold frame and low tunnels with 2 extra layers of 6 mil greenhouse film (5 layers of cover total)

3:42 Temperatures outside versus hoop house

4:34 How did the plants hold up to the extreme cold?

6:50 The plants we're growing are more cold hardy than most people think

Oscar Cameos:

4:14 4:34 6:21 8:16

And if the town or company says they recycle it , it actually doesnt

12 years in the garbage disposal business in 3 cities, they barely recycle plastics

The cat is saying " wow, this is a cool place to hang out" " when is lunch coming" " I like the idea of a cold frame inside the greenhouse"

Great video

I discovered your secret. There was a cat there and it warms everything.😂

Serious awful proliferation of plastic, even though you are trying to be good stewards if it.

As I wait for my greenhouse to be delivered right now, I am happy I got an indoor growroom set up first. I live in a cold place, too, Minnesota. With what I have learned about light, both from the sun and LEDs I won't be growing in my greenhouse in the winter. I can grow tomatoes or cannabis indoors running LEDs cheaper than I could heat a greenhouse and grow lettuce. And any inefficiency of the lights is free heat for my home. The sun just isn't strong enough this far north in the winter to justify heating a greenhouse.

Thx so much for the inspiration and information. Very helpful ❤

Thank you very much for this information. It is most useful.

Wow, I'm impressed.

For my area we would run into problems with not enough light faster than issues from frost :/

The resemblance to the comedian Dave Thomas is uncanny…

Using snow for insulation is great up to a point, but the weight of too much wet snow piled up on the sides will push back into the greenhouse and tear the plastic or collapse a wooden greenhouse. We can get 48" of snow in Atlantic Canada and most people will need to shovel or snow-blow the sides to keep it from collapsing. This wouldn't be necessary everywhere.

How u water all the plants?

I really appreciate and amazed by the lusciousness of the crop. Usually when people show the greenhouse crops, they are sparce.

I trenched around outside perimeter to where i got straw bales in trenches and covered in plastic no more ground cold transfer to floor inside green house

Considering all the preppers out there this should be standard for everyone living north of Tennessee

u lucky. all my plants died😢

Thank you.

Do you also ventilate the greenhouse for fresh air ?

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Hello! how do you water your plants in freezing temperatures?

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Seems like greenhouses don't work if you need all that extra plastic. Exactly what I wanted to know.

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we are trying this, this year. will let you know how it goes.

our city "recycles" it

i love the occasional cat zoom-in edits. clear, informational, and cute.

Hi, Thank you for sharing your experience with all of us. I have a question about fertilizing. Do you fertilize during winter in the greenhouse plants and if so what do you use for that?

There is no heating in my greenhouse, so I use cloth to cover the vegetables to keep warm.

Thanks for the video 😊

The cold weather is the pest here.

Wow

Just thinking of a little rocket stove heater setup, perhaps even a modified design to circulate hot water through a few water barrels for some stored radiant heat inside.

Great design, i've grown veggies off grid for over a decade and this is essentially what I do as well, cover everything multiple times so the convection is slowed down. The best approach is to have a compost pile behind the greenhouse too, lean the compost against some steel barrels full of water which act as a bulk head, then have the barrels inside the greenhouse, so you get the warmth of the compost but none of the offgas. works for tomatos in the freezing winter months.

I use row covers outside, whatever survives, survives.
Zone 5b

Hi, currently a N Arizona resident and gardener. I leave my lettuce mounds and kale and carrots out all year with snow and below freezing temps. They do just fine as long as ya dont mess with them frozen. 😂😂😂

I just want to pour blue cheese dressing all over that lettuce, lol. Nicely done but heck, it's a LOAD of work to keep these babies safe!

This is amazing. I've failed for two winters now. After watching this I'll add more cover and try again.

Ha! The clip of just the cat 😂❤

Hi. Just had my first season with a greenhouse, If it's above 10 degrees you don't put any cover other than the cold frame or first layer of hoop housse on the plants but you cover them every night then uncover in the day? Thanks. LB

I know of a greenhouse that collapsed flat when the owner pulled snow off one side and not the other. The roof load was unbalanced and the house went down. It was a heavier snow than you show. These hoop houses aren't built to take sideways thrust that happens when one side is swept clean and the other side is still snow covered.