Veggies can be grown any time of year when you utilize greenhouse vegetable gardening methods. Growing vegetables greenhouse style is almost the same as producing them from a garden outside in the summer. You merely have to supplement what nature provides that a greenhouse can't.
To cultivate vegetables in a portable greenhouse you can use two methods. The first uses the sun's energy throughout the day to heat up the structure and is called the cold method. When the temperature drops, a heating element will turn on to keep the temperature to a minimum of 45 degrees F. In this technique plants do not grow; instead they are only maintained until they can be placed back outside in the summer.
Cultivating vegetables throughout the wintertime calls for warmth so the warm technique is the one to use here. Garden greenhouses have to maintain a temperature of at least 55 degrees F in order for the plants to grow and require a heating unit. Heating units can be gas, electric or propane.
There's scarcely a vegetable that can be grown in a garden that can't be grown in a greenhouse. Look in seed catalogs to find seeds explicitly developed for greenhouse use. If you can't find those get plants that maintain a compact size or that can be cut back to be smaller than the outside plants. There is little room in a greenhouse and you do not want it to be used up with just a couple of varieties of vegetables.
One of the things you must provide your greenhouse vegetables besides heat is pollination. You will not find any bees or other insects in your greenhouse that you would in the outdoors. A good example is raising tomatoes. Tie tomatoes to bamboo stakes and once the flowers appear tap the stakes once in the morning and once at nighttime. Do this when you see that the flower petals are curving backwards. You will need to watch daily because you only have a three day window of time that the flower petals will do this.
You'll have to supplement sunlight throughout the wintertime too so plan on supplying grow lights in a winter greenhouse. Plants normally need 8 hours of sunlight per day. You'll also have to provide water and fertilizer regularly.
Greenhouse vegetables during the winter can be hard to work with, more so than in the summertime, however it can be very rewarding. Tomatoes can be picked out of the greenhouse in the dead of winter. You'll be able to have fresh veggies any time of year. - 33393
To cultivate vegetables in a portable greenhouse you can use two methods. The first uses the sun's energy throughout the day to heat up the structure and is called the cold method. When the temperature drops, a heating element will turn on to keep the temperature to a minimum of 45 degrees F. In this technique plants do not grow; instead they are only maintained until they can be placed back outside in the summer.
Cultivating vegetables throughout the wintertime calls for warmth so the warm technique is the one to use here. Garden greenhouses have to maintain a temperature of at least 55 degrees F in order for the plants to grow and require a heating unit. Heating units can be gas, electric or propane.
There's scarcely a vegetable that can be grown in a garden that can't be grown in a greenhouse. Look in seed catalogs to find seeds explicitly developed for greenhouse use. If you can't find those get plants that maintain a compact size or that can be cut back to be smaller than the outside plants. There is little room in a greenhouse and you do not want it to be used up with just a couple of varieties of vegetables.
One of the things you must provide your greenhouse vegetables besides heat is pollination. You will not find any bees or other insects in your greenhouse that you would in the outdoors. A good example is raising tomatoes. Tie tomatoes to bamboo stakes and once the flowers appear tap the stakes once in the morning and once at nighttime. Do this when you see that the flower petals are curving backwards. You will need to watch daily because you only have a three day window of time that the flower petals will do this.
You'll have to supplement sunlight throughout the wintertime too so plan on supplying grow lights in a winter greenhouse. Plants normally need 8 hours of sunlight per day. You'll also have to provide water and fertilizer regularly.
Greenhouse vegetables during the winter can be hard to work with, more so than in the summertime, however it can be very rewarding. Tomatoes can be picked out of the greenhouse in the dead of winter. You'll be able to have fresh veggies any time of year. - 33393
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