What a brilliant piece of work, in terms of designing, planting, filming month by month and assessing the outcomes of this huge but clearly successful project. Thank you so much for sharing! 💚❤💚
@@TheTenterhookTimes The video is very nice and with many great info but the birds drive me crazy, I do love birds but please not when someone is talking and explaining important things!
We weren't bothered by them and they left us well alone. It helped they were high up I think. Be interesting to see if wasps return this year and build another nest. Thanks for the comment 😀👍
People get so riled up about all sorts of insects like wasps and ants without understanding why they show up or what their function is in the ecosystem and if they're even harmful. I see it in gardening groups all the time.
Great and very useful information. However, here is a piece of advice for future videos. The music from the banjo is quite disturbing when you have both birds chirping and someone talking at the same time. For those with impaired hearing, it is almost impossible to distinguish words from all other sounds. Other than that, the video was really worth watching.
Hi Phoebe, thanks and really glad you enjoyed watching. I hope you can find someplace in your city to grow fresh food - I don't know where you live but in the UK there are some opportunities (though never enough) to grow on urban allotments for example 🌱💚
We did the same for ages before taking the plunge. It's great seeing what other people do - very inspirational - so we enjoy being able to share our ideas too 😃
Wow! You did such a wonderful job documenting your beautiful greenhouse. The photography and the simple explanations were a delight to experience. We live in a similar climate, also on a hillside and you have me dreaming of the possibilities! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! We thought from the start that it would be a great project to document, not just for ourselves but so that we could share what we had learnt with others who might be interested too. We have really appreciated learning from other greenhouse growers on RUclips. Appreciate the comment and wish you all the best for turning your dreams into a reality! 😀
Thank you so much for taking us along the journey of the first year of your greenhouse. There is lots to learn here, and I will be applying it to my greenhouse build this year. 😊
Your channel just popped up and the way you've presented the video is brilliant, full of info and I've subscribed. Will look forward to watching your videos. Hello from across the water in Ireland 🤗
How wonderful! You must be so pleased with it. You could definitely get more use out of it in December and January though. I grow lettuces, salad rocket, miners lettuce, celery and Asian greens in my polytunnel that gets no direct sun in December or January! You need to plant more plants in winter than you would need in spring or summer to make up for the slower growth, but I’m sure in that fabulous greenhouse you’d get bumper crops! I also sow some brassicas and in October and overwinter them in 6inch pots on the benches, I plant them in the beds in January and they’re ready by late May just before the tomatoes go in. You can sow Napoli carrots in late September in a deep container (i use a plastic stacker storage box with holes drilled in the bottom) and overwinter them in there too. They’ll be ready in April. Hanging baskets in there would be great for lettuces in winter too. Check out my go to channel for year round self sufficiency. Steve really knows his stuff. It’s only my second year and I was almost self sufficient in veg all year last year. There’s loads of links in the description to his gardening ebook, monthly sowing and growing guides and individual growing guides. It’s all free to access too (though you can use the buy me a coffee icon to donate if you wish) Check him out, he’s wonderful and so generous to pass on all his knowledge like he does. youtube.com/@SteveRichards
Thanks for all your suggestions - it's great to hear about other people's experiences! 👍 We had definitely planned to grow more through the depths of winter but this year it hasn't been possible due to family caring responsibilities which we had to prioritise. We're taking note though and look forward to extending the growing season further in future 😀
I have only just found your channel and what a delight. You have done so well documenting the build of your greenhouse and the first year in production. What a lovely place to live and grow fruit and veg.
Decades ago I built a passive solar pit greenhouse. It still functions. Just a few years ago, I had a contractor build me a smallish passive solar home in a moderate climate. Not warm and not particularly cold. It is remarkably efficient and cheap to operate. It was not cheap to build though.
Hi Jim, thanks for the comment, it's great to hear about other people's experiences. I love watching videos about greenhouses and passive solar homes too - all the best with your place - it must be great to have such a home 💚
Wonderful, helpful video, thank you. Great idea with cutting the hoops for extended window openers👍 The birdsong hit the exact frequency where it turned the sound down and activated sub titles (a minor irritation). Thanks again for your efforts and time taken to edit and share this 👌👏
Great video! So much information jam packed under 30 minutes. Questions: 1. How much did it cost to make the new greenhouse? 2. Could painting the cement brick back wall black help retain even more heat? 3. How long did this project take to finish? 4. How did you regulate the water distribution when you were away for such a while? 5. How on earth did you manage to eat all of that food? 6. With the tomatoes and fig issues, how would have constructed a more efficient way to manage them better? 7. If you can do it all again, what are a few things that you would do differently? 8. How many acres of land were you planning on? 9. In what way were you able to keep records of the temperature inside the greenhouse? 10. What happened with the wasps? 11. How you thought about writing a book about your experience?… to note all of the many tips, tricks & strategies you’ve learned? Thank you so much for your time and patience in answering these questions.
Hi Maige - wow, that's a lot of questions! Glad you enjoyed the video - some answers you will find in response to other comments that people have made. So... we'll just pick a few of your questions to reply to if that's OK 😂 4. The type of water irrigation we use comes on automatically every day for a set period so it's easy to go away for short periods - we look at the weather forecast and see how hot it will be and decide how long it should be on for each day. 5. We've been eating fresh organic fruit and veg for months - it's wonderful. We still have a Turks Turban squash in our pantry even now, they store superbly and are highly recommended! 6. With the tomato issues I think we will just plant less this year and use the spare space for other lower growing crops. 10. The wasps lived their life cycle and then died for the season as happens (except for the queen who will have hibernated somewhere for the winter) - we're hoping a new generation of wasps will come and live in the greenhouse this summer 🤞 11. No time to write a book - but we do plan to post further video updates about our garden including the greenhouse - so watch this space! 🌱😀
This was a well put together video. My only complaint is that his voice was often drowned out by the bird song. Also, the only wasp I've heard of that will kill aphids is the parasitic wasp which is only about 1/10 inch long, very tiny. I've heard people say that common wasps kill aphids, I just haven't seen anything from a University that says that. Good work and I'm glad the new greenhouse got things all sorted out.
Thanks for the info about the wasps. We'll have to read up about that. Either way we like the wasps. They started two nests this year but unfortunately they didn't progress much at all before being abandoned, so we miss them. Hopefully they have a good nest somewhere else! 🤞
I like wasps. I let them be if the nests aren't close to the house. I have recently watched a video where a regular brown wasp was eating a tomato horn worm, so that's good news. I like the idea of IPM, but you have to get everything just right or you're losing crop which doesn't work for a small garden you're trying to feed yourself from. I've also never seen any IPM source discuss mosquitos and I am a magnet so I still have to spray the yard and use deet and BT bits.
Really enjoyable, glad you kept the Wasps, I know they eat pests, good little helpers. Did a quick search, they are estimated to eat 14million kilograms a year in UK. Just hope it's not one large caterpillar. Cheers Mick
Hi Mick, that's an amazing statistic you've found out about how much wasps can eat in a year!! All the more reason to welcome them into our gardens. Thanks for a brilliant comment! 😁👍
Hi Gloria, thanks - the wasps never came anywhere near us whilst we were working in the greenhouse - too busy with their own endeavours! Is CA Canada or California perhaps...? Thanks for watching 😀
Looks Great! I have a polycarbonate lean to against garden shed and want to enlarge just a bit and replace the polycarbonate panels with heat sink in floor. I know about microclimates all too well as we were hit with frost a couple days ago and wiped out Many plants. Local weather never warned of frost.
Thank you for this fantastic video, one of the best vids on passive solar greenhouse design and performance I've seen in years. We are building a smaller version, very similar to yours in design. Love your ingenuity. Cheers from your friends in Canada. 🥰
Hello Canadian friends - we watched a lot of videos about Canadian greenhouses when we were doing our research. There are some amazing greenhouses there! Wishing you all the best with your greenhouse project! 👍😀
Well done to the both of you 😊 Your temperature moderation is very impressive indeed 👍 I must add; if you paint the back wall black it will much improve it’s performance as a heat sink.
Thank-you! It's pretty hot in there already at this time of year but I suppose a black wall would improve heat retention during cooler months. We shall have to think about it! 👍
@@TheTenterhookTimes Along with painting the wall black you might add dirt behind the wall the wall's upper portion so the heat has somewhere to go other than inside during the hottest part of the day. Then at night - when it cools down - the heat stored in the earth will seep back into the space keeping it warmer at night and at the beginning and end of the season.
Hi David, thanks for watching in North Carolina and later on we'll be over to check on your solar greenhouse! We love seeing how others grow their own fruit and veg 😀
What a lovely video I’ve just watched, very successful, can I ask, what variety of fig tree you grow and how do they taste? thinking of getting one for my new greenhouse this year🤷♂️
Hi Stephen, the fig is a Brown Turkey and the ripe fruits are absolutely delicious, incredibly sweet and juicy. They do particularly well during a really hot summer. Hope you find one for your greenhouse too 🤞👍
Thanks! 😀 We were intrigued by the wasps. I want to try and find out more about them. They have made nests in our garden sheds before but nothing as massive as this nest!
The best content I've found in some time! Absolutely amazing. All my questions were answered regarding greenhouse climate information in GB. Very nicely presented and a pleasure to watch. Instantly subscribed!
I love your straightforward, down to earth approach! This makes me more confident I too can build a passive greenhouse! So many channels make this such a complicated, scientific endeavour that it becomes quite frightening and overwhelming! I’ll just come back here for a bit of ‘ahhh, that’s better!’ 😂
Ah, that's lovely, thank you! We too find some of the channels a bit overwhelming - we wanted to just keep it simple and see if it worked for us, which it has pretty much so far! We're having fun anyway on our greenhouse journey! 😄
I really like your new greenhouse. The only thing about it that surprised me was that you stuck with the poly-tunnel for so long. I've two suggestions you might want to try. 1) Paint the interior of your back wall flat black to increase solar absorption during the winter. 2) Add insulation to the outside of the back wall to break the thermal bridging of the concrete that pulls heat out of the greenhouse during the winter. Still, I think you did a great job with what you've already done. I'm a bit envious.
Very nice!!!! i am in process of a similar project here in the US. Watching the plants grow in your house gave me the idea of a trellis along my block wall. I think I will insert some metal brackets as I am building for it to attach to. Look forward to seeing how this year goes for you!!!
Thanks, really great that you took an idea to try in your own greenhouse. This year our young vine is growing very fast up the block wall at the back so soon it will be covered in foliage (and one day hopefully grapes too!) 🤞
A couple of quick tips with very little cost: Paint your back wall with a flat black paint. This will help absorb sunlight during the day and radiate heat back during the night acting like a solar thermal battery. On the outside, build up the soil at the wall to within 15cm (to prevent moisture migration to water sensitive materials) of the wood construction. This will take advantage of the earth's natural tendency to stay around 10C throughout the winter. A form of earth thermal power source. 6 mill poly sheets under the roof and on the walls to create a thermal insulation air barrier. A costlier addition: install a series of culverts below the frost line behind the wall. use low CFM air circulating fan (solar powered) to exchange air from the below earth culverts and inside the greenhouse.
Thanks for your tips which do make good sense for some climates and situations. We're going to monitor growing and harvests for a couple of years before we make any modifications to the greenhouse as we feel what we have does suit our needs. We just want to enjoy our gardening for a little while now!
I live in zone 5b, and have been wanting to grow figs in a windy rural area. This is wonderful; I was just given a pallet of bricks that I intend to use to do this along the front of my property line over an illegally placed sidewalk that shall now act as a pathway. My city was given 1 foot leeway into my yard for a sidewalk and they placed it ten feet into my yard when it was laid decades ago, so I'm claiming ownership. 😎😁 The kicker? They infringed on my property for the sake of a young tree... that destroyed part of the sidewalk. 😆
That was incredible. Congratulations not only on the work that you've done but the amazing way that you've documented it. Visually it is stunning. So funny, here in Sydney, where it's been hovering between 35-40c I'm jealous of your cooler weather. Wow, those tomato plants sure know how to party!
Lovely to hear from Australia! 👍 It's actually snowing here today!! ❄❄😂 Maybe a bit too cool for an Aussie! We have fond memories of Wwoofing just outside Sydney many years ago. Thanks for a fab comment 😊
Thanks for your lovely comment 😊 Yes - the new growing season is definitely underway! We've had a cold spring so far in the UK this year, but the greenhouse is filling up nicely! 🌱👍
Great stuff guys. I am a little further down the river, and am also in a bit of a frost pocket. I have a central path in my greenhouse with supports for tomatoes on either side. I ha e overwinter stuff on the path this year by wrapping fleece around the supports and putting bubble wrap over the top..
Living by the river is wonderful and we wouldn't swop for anything, but frost pockets can be a real pain for growing! Good luck with your greenhouse - we use a lot of fleece too, inside our old polytunnel regularly and outside too.
I love it! Great job! Did you ever think of adding a wood stove to help heat the green house too? You may have to add a fan to help circulate the air flow but that could help more plants for the winter maybe! ❤ it guys great job!!
Thanks - appreciate the comment. We've seen wood burners in other greenhouses in cold climates, but that's a step too far for us. We like to use the natural heat produced by the sun if possible and save our logs for heating the house in the winter 🌞👍
What a brilliant piece of work, in terms of designing, planting, filming month by month and assessing the outcomes of this huge but clearly successful project. Thank you so much for sharing! 💚❤💚
Thank you for watching Pam and for your lovely comment! 😀👍
@@TheTenterhookTimes The video is very nice and with many great info but the birds drive me crazy, I do love birds but please not when someone is talking and explaining important things!
@@TheTenterhookTimesIf you are unaware, Wasps kill Bees 🐝
It is definitely a brilliant piece of work! Exceptionally Well Thought Out Video! 🦋🌿
@@eveadame1059 Thank you! 😀
It's pretty cool how you just left the wasps to do their thing and weren't bothered by them!
We weren't bothered by them and they left us well alone. It helped they were high up I think. Be interesting to see if wasps return this year and build another nest. Thanks for the comment 😀👍
While I’m scared of wasps, I can imagine it’s like having scary free employees in the greenhouse and the garden
Wasp eat pest too
People get so riled up about all sorts of insects like wasps and ants without understanding why they show up or what their function is in the ecosystem and if they're even harmful. I see it in gardening groups all the time.
Came for the greenhouse and stayed for the birds. A well done video!
Thank you - we love the birds too, they're all busy building nests at the moment, the garden is full of birdsong!🎶🎶 ❤
Great and very useful information. However, here is a piece of advice for future videos. The music from the banjo is quite disturbing when you have both birds chirping and someone talking at the same time. For those with impaired hearing, it is almost impossible to distinguish words from all other sounds. Other than that, the video was really worth watching.
Thank you for sharing the highs and the lows of your new greenhouse, it is so fun to see a full year in the life of your plants and greenhouse too!
Mainly highs so far - such a wonderful space to spend time in! 🌞🌱Thanks for watching and commenting 😀👍
Love the greenhouse. And that bird!
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What abundance! Such an inspiration for someone who lives in the city and dreams of growing such a variety of fresh food
Hi Phoebe, thanks and really glad you enjoyed watching. I hope you can find someplace in your city to grow fresh food - I don't know where you live but in the UK there are some opportunities (though never enough) to grow on urban allotments for example 🌱💚
Thanks so much
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Hello from California. Thanks for sharing this lovely video. Congratulations on your fantastic greenhouse upgrade! Joy to you.
You did amazing work there. Joyful!
Thank you so much! 😀
This is EXCELLENT! Watching from Jamaica 🇯🇲 😌 😍
Hi to you both! Wishing you happy gardening in Jamaica! 🌿🌱☺
So beautiful 😍 I absolutely love the overgrown look!💜
my left ear enjoyed the video.
what a fab youtube video, superb balance of speed, detail and editing, well done both,,, and the greenhouse is awesome too!
Thank you! 😀 Really appreciate the video feedback! And glad you liked the greenhouse too! 👍
Wow! I'm still dreaming of my greenhouse and am "collecting" ideas from other people's plans - thank you for showing yours!
We did the same for ages before taking the plunge. It's great seeing what other people do - very inspirational - so we enjoy being able to share our ideas too 😃
Wow! You did such a wonderful job documenting your beautiful greenhouse. The photography and the simple explanations were a delight to experience. We live in a similar climate, also on a hillside and you have me dreaming of the possibilities! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! We thought from the start that it would be a great project to document, not just for ourselves but so that we could share what we had learnt with others who might be interested too. We have really appreciated learning from other greenhouse growers on RUclips. Appreciate the comment and wish you all the best for turning your dreams into a reality! 😀
Friggen awesome I want one
Thank you so much for taking us along the journey of the first year of your greenhouse. There is lots to learn here, and I will be applying it to my greenhouse build this year. 😊
Thanks - so pleased you found it useful! Good luck with your own greenhouse build! 👍
Lovely vibes, enjoyed watching it!
Thank you! 🙌
Your channel just popped up and the way you've presented the video is brilliant, full of info and I've subscribed. Will look forward to watching your videos. Hello from across the water in Ireland 🤗
Hello Sinead - thanks for your lovely comment and welcome! 👍Glad you enjoyed the video! 😀
How wonderful! You must be so pleased with it. You could definitely get more use out of it in December and January though. I grow lettuces, salad rocket, miners lettuce, celery and Asian greens in my polytunnel that gets no direct sun in December or January! You need to plant more plants in winter than you would need in spring or summer to make up for the slower growth, but I’m sure in that fabulous greenhouse you’d get bumper crops! I also sow some brassicas and in October and overwinter them in 6inch pots on the benches, I plant them in the beds in January and they’re ready by late May just before the tomatoes go in. You can sow Napoli carrots in late September in a deep container (i use a plastic stacker storage box with holes drilled in the bottom) and overwinter them in there too. They’ll be ready in April.
Hanging baskets in there would be great for lettuces in winter too.
Check out my go to channel for year round self sufficiency. Steve really knows his stuff. It’s only my second year and I was almost self sufficient in veg all year last year.
There’s loads of links in the description to his gardening ebook, monthly sowing and growing guides and individual growing guides. It’s all free to access too (though you can use the buy me a coffee icon to donate if you wish)
Check him out, he’s wonderful and so generous to pass on all his knowledge like he does.
youtube.com/@SteveRichards
Thanks for all your suggestions - it's great to hear about other people's experiences! 👍 We had definitely planned to grow more through the depths of winter but this year it hasn't been possible due to family caring responsibilities which we had to prioritise. We're taking note though and look forward to extending the growing season further in future 😀
One of the best commentary I have ever heard on YT. It was a pleasure watching the entire video. It was a ton of work and can't wait to watch more!!
Hi Todd, thanks - it was a ton of work (though very enjoyable) and now we need to plan some more!! 😂 Glad you enjoyed it! 👍
You are amazing! Thank you!
Thanks for watching! 🙌
I have only just found your channel and what a delight. You have done so well documenting the build of your greenhouse and the first year in production. What a lovely place to live and grow fruit and veg.
Ah, thank you! 😀 It certainly is the most wonderful place here! 💚
Decades ago I built a passive solar pit greenhouse. It still functions. Just a few years ago, I had a contractor build me a smallish passive solar home in a moderate climate. Not warm and not particularly cold. It is remarkably efficient and cheap to operate. It was not cheap to build though.
Hi Jim, thanks for the comment, it's great to hear about other people's experiences. I love watching videos about greenhouses and passive solar homes too - all the best with your place - it must be great to have such a home 💚
The cost of energy has only going up. I'm sure it will be well worth it over the lifetime of the building.
Excellent, thank you.
Thanks for watching 🙌
Wonderful, helpful video, thank you. Great idea with cutting the hoops for extended window openers👍 The birdsong hit the exact frequency where it turned the sound down and activated sub titles (a minor irritation). Thanks again for your efforts and time taken to edit and share this 👌👏
The recycled hoops are working brilliantly as extended window openers - love to recycle stuff where we can 👍
Great video! So much information jam packed under 30 minutes.
Questions:
1. How much did it cost to make the new greenhouse?
2. Could painting the cement brick back wall black help retain even more heat?
3. How long did this project take to finish?
4. How did you regulate the water distribution when you were away for such a while?
5. How on earth did you manage to eat all of that food?
6. With the tomatoes and fig issues, how would have constructed a more efficient way to manage them better?
7. If you can do it all again, what are a few things that you would do differently?
8. How many acres of land were you planning on?
9. In what way were you able to keep records of the temperature inside the greenhouse?
10. What happened with the wasps?
11. How you thought about writing a book about your experience?… to note all of the many tips, tricks & strategies you’ve learned?
Thank you so much for your time and patience in answering these questions.
Hi Maige - wow, that's a lot of questions! Glad you enjoyed the video - some answers you will find in response to other comments that people have made. So... we'll just pick a few of your questions to reply to if that's OK 😂
4. The type of water irrigation we use comes on automatically every day for a set period so it's easy to go away for short periods - we look at the weather forecast and see how hot it will be and decide how long it should be on for each day.
5. We've been eating fresh organic fruit and veg for months - it's wonderful. We still have a Turks Turban squash in our pantry even now, they store superbly and are highly recommended!
6. With the tomato issues I think we will just plant less this year and use the spare space for other lower growing crops.
10. The wasps lived their life cycle and then died for the season as happens (except for the queen who will have hibernated somewhere for the winter) - we're hoping a new generation of wasps will come and live in the greenhouse this summer 🤞
11. No time to write a book - but we do plan to post further video updates about our garden including the greenhouse - so watch this space! 🌱😀
What a lovely space. What a lovely video. Greetings from Kentucky US.
Greetings Kentucky friends! 😃 Glad you enjoyed the video & thanks for the comment 👍
That was really interesting, a great set up you have there.
Thanks, glad you like it! 😀
This was a well put together video. My only complaint is that his voice was often drowned out by the bird song.
Also, the only wasp I've heard of that will kill aphids is the parasitic wasp which is only about 1/10 inch long, very tiny. I've heard people say that common wasps kill aphids, I just haven't seen anything from a University that says that.
Good work and I'm glad the new greenhouse got things all sorted out.
Thanks for the info about the wasps. We'll have to read up about that. Either way we like the wasps. They started two nests this year but unfortunately they didn't progress much at all before being abandoned, so we miss them. Hopefully they have a good nest somewhere else! 🤞
I like wasps. I let them be if the nests aren't close to the house. I have recently watched a video where a regular brown wasp was eating a tomato horn worm, so that's good news. I like the idea of IPM, but you have to get everything just right or you're losing crop which doesn't work for a small garden you're trying to feed yourself from. I've also never seen any IPM source discuss mosquitos and I am a magnet so I still have to spray the yard and use deet and BT bits.
What a beautiful greenhouse
My wife and I really enjoyed the content! Very professional jon on the editing too.
Thank you both, really glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Really enjoyable, glad you kept the Wasps, I know they eat pests, good little helpers. Did a quick search, they are estimated to eat 14million kilograms a year in UK. Just hope it's not one large caterpillar. Cheers Mick
Hi Mick, that's an amazing statistic you've found out about how much wasps can eat in a year!! All the more reason to welcome them into our gardens. Thanks for a brilliant comment! 😁👍
Lovely video, thank you
Thank you for watching! 👍
I really enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the video - it was fun to capture the build and first harvest!
Love this !!!
Thanks! 😀
You two are geniuses. It's so well designed. A nice mix of practical and artful. So many ideas I want in my own greenhouse, someday.
Ah, thank you for such a lovely comment 😍
Beautiful - Thanks for sharing!
Happy to share - thanks for watching! 😀
very neat and organized garden I've ever seen!
Loved ur greenhouse. I can’t work knowing the wasps were there. Very nice I’m jealous. Hi fm CA.
Hi Gloria, thanks - the wasps never came anywhere near us whilst we were working in the greenhouse - too busy with their own endeavours! Is CA Canada or California perhaps...? Thanks for watching 😀
Wow, that's a luxurious greenhouse. You two are cool
It is so nice I love the greenhouse and y great job guys
Thank you! 🙌
Thanks for sharing your greenhouse build and first growing season. I listened with earbuds & love the birdsong in my ears 😊
Ah, thanks for appreciating the bird song! We love our native birds 🐦☺
Looks Great! I have a polycarbonate lean to against garden shed and want to enlarge just a bit and replace the polycarbonate panels with heat sink in floor.
I know about microclimates all too well as we were hit with frost a couple days ago and wiped out Many plants. Local weather never warned of frost.
Frost is such a pain, especially when it arrives unexpectedly! Wishing you all the best with your gardening endeavours 🌱😃
So awesome, I couldn't be more jealous 👍
Great work !
Thanks for watching and commenting! 😀
Love your green house, your vegetables an your video. Awesome storytelling, filming and edit ❤
Thank you for such a lovely comment! 😍
Wonderful 👍Thanks for sharing 🌹
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
Fantastic! Thx for the inspiration and for sharing your project ❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment 😍
Fantastic greenhouse design and highly useful video production!!
Thank you so much! We're really enjoying our greenhouse and sharing our experiences to a wider audience 😊
Beautifully filmed. Very informative. Keep growing and posting. Thanks.
Thank you! Definitely planning to keep growing and posting - we'll feature some other areas of our garden too 👍🌱🌼🌿
what a pleasant video to watch!
Hi in the Philippines - so pleased you enjoyed our greenhouse video! 😀🌱
What a wonderful set up and what abundance! You must be very proud of your garden, it's absolutely beautiful
We do love gardening here - it's a very special place for us! 💚 Thank you for your lovely comment 😀
Really interesting! Great job!
Thank you! 🙌
Y’all are so amazing!
Thank you for taking us along in your journey
Hiya, thanks, yes the journey continues with growing season no 3 well underway already! 🍅🥒🥬🍇😃
Thank you for this fantastic video, one of the best vids on passive solar greenhouse design and performance I've seen in years. We are building a smaller version, very similar to yours in design. Love your ingenuity. Cheers from your friends in Canada. 🥰
Hello Canadian friends - we watched a lot of videos about Canadian greenhouses when we were doing our research. There are some amazing greenhouses there! Wishing you all the best with your greenhouse project! 👍😀
Goodness me this is an AMAZING build!!!! 😍👍👍👍
Well thank you - we are very pleased with the result - can't keep out of the place especially as Spring has sprung! 😀
Well done to the both of you 😊 Your temperature moderation is very impressive indeed 👍
I must add; if you paint the back wall black it will much improve it’s performance as a heat sink.
Thank-you! It's pretty hot in there already at this time of year but I suppose a black wall would improve heat retention during cooler months. We shall have to think about it! 👍
@@TheTenterhookTimesI wonder if you could use black paint & hang a white cover of some sort in the hotter months? (Perhaps just cheap drop cloths?)
@@TheTenterhookTimes Along with painting the wall black you might add dirt behind the wall the wall's upper portion so the heat has somewhere to go other than inside during the hottest part of the day. Then at night - when it cools down - the heat stored in the earth will seep back into the space keeping it warmer at night and at the beginning and end of the season.
Молодцы! Отличная теплица.
great work!
Thank you! 🙌
What a beautiful and satisfying video. It looks like all your design plans worked out perfectly.
Thank you, yes, we're very pleased and enjoying sowing our seed this Spring 2023! 🌱😀
Haha not having the heart to cut back the tomatoes sounds exactly like what we are like! What an amazing greenhouse! It's really amazing!
Your comment made us smile! This past season we didn't plant as many but those that grew still turned into monsters! 🍅😂
Excellent summary! My solar greenhouse in North Carolina is doing fantastically as well
Hi David, thanks for watching in North Carolina and later on we'll be over to check on your solar greenhouse! We love seeing how others grow their own fruit and veg 😀
Excellent Job!
Thanks! 🙌
What a lovely video I’ve just watched, very successful, can I ask, what variety of fig tree you grow and how do they taste? thinking of getting one for my new greenhouse this year🤷♂️
Hi Stephen, the fig is a Brown Turkey and the ripe fruits are absolutely delicious, incredibly sweet and juicy. They do particularly well during a really hot summer. Hope you find one for your greenhouse too 🤞👍
Absolutely loved watching the process of your greenhouse and how abundant they can be 🥰 x
Ah what a lovely comment! Thank you so much 😊
Wow. That’s fantastic. Great job.
Thank you! 🙌
Fantastic! So glad you showed up in my youtube feed! Wonderful garden, so inspiring. 😊
Ah thank you 😀 Really appreciate your comments on our videos! 👍
Amazing video and project!
Thanks for not attacking the wasps ❤
Thanks! 😀 We were intrigued by the wasps. I want to try and find out more about them. They have made nests in our garden sheds before but nothing as massive as this nest!
Brilliant, well done on all your hard work 💚
Ah thank you - it's been a bit of a project but we've really enjoyed it! 😀
hello from knighton in mid wales.
Hi Knighton, hope the gardening is going good over there on the east of the county! 😁
Love your design!
Thanks - it's working well so far! 👍
The best content I've found in some time! Absolutely amazing. All my questions were answered regarding greenhouse climate information in GB. Very nicely presented and a pleasure to watch. Instantly subscribed!
Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful too. We're slowly making more videos about our greenhouse and garden so I hope you'll enjoy those too👍
I love your straightforward, down to earth approach! This makes me more confident I too can build a passive greenhouse! So many channels make this such a complicated, scientific endeavour that it becomes quite frightening and overwhelming!
I’ll just come back here for a bit of ‘ahhh, that’s better!’ 😂
Ah, that's lovely, thank you! We too find some of the channels a bit overwhelming - we wanted to just keep it simple and see if it worked for us, which it has pretty much so far! We're having fun anyway on our greenhouse journey! 😄
Wonderful account of your endeavours and success. Well done!
Thanks Richard, Jackie deserves most of the credit!
Ah, thank you! It's been a team effort in fact!! Appreciate the comment 😀
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching & commenting! 😀
I really like your new greenhouse. The only thing about it that surprised me was that you stuck with the poly-tunnel for so long.
I've two suggestions you might want to try. 1) Paint the interior of your back wall flat black to increase solar absorption during the winter. 2) Add insulation to the outside of the back wall to break the thermal bridging of the concrete that pulls heat out of the greenhouse during the winter. Still, I think you did a great job with what you've already done. I'm a bit envious.
Hi thanks for your great comments and suggestions. The polytunnel served us well over the years but we're very pleased to have the greenhouse now 👍
wow! what a garden of Eden! :)
Beautifully done
I don’t have a garden but I LOVED watching this endeavor
Hi Carol, ah thank you! 💚
Thank you for sharing the trip, it was very inspiring, will build a similar one during the summer, towards the long side of the barn😃
Hi Fred, thanks, glad you found it inspiring and we wish you all the best with your project 👍
Super effort!
Thank you! 🙌
Amazing
Thanks! 🙌
you did a good job!
Thanks! 😀
Very nice!!!! i am in process of a similar project here in the US. Watching the plants grow in your house gave me the idea of a trellis along my block wall. I think I will insert some metal brackets as I am building for it to attach to. Look forward to seeing how this year goes for you!!!
Thanks, really great that you took an idea to try in your own greenhouse. This year our young vine is growing very fast up the block wall at the back so soon it will be covered in foliage (and one day hopefully grapes too!) 🤞
Well done!
Thank you! 🙂🙃
A couple of quick tips with very little cost:
Paint your back wall with a flat black paint. This will help absorb sunlight during the day and radiate heat back during the night acting like a solar thermal battery.
On the outside, build up the soil at the wall to within 15cm (to prevent moisture migration to water sensitive materials) of the wood construction. This will take advantage of the earth's natural tendency to stay around 10C throughout the winter. A form of earth thermal power source.
6 mill poly sheets under the roof and on the walls to create a thermal insulation air barrier.
A costlier addition:
install a series of culverts below the frost line behind the wall. use low CFM air circulating fan (solar powered) to exchange air from the below earth culverts and inside the greenhouse.
Thanks for your tips which do make good sense for some climates and situations. We're going to monitor growing and harvests for a couple of years before we make any modifications to the greenhouse as we feel what we have does suit our needs. We just want to enjoy our gardening for a little while now!
@@TheTenterhookTimes Enjoy your gardening as much as you can!
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you! 😀
I live in zone 5b, and have been wanting to grow figs in a windy rural area. This is wonderful; I was just given a pallet of bricks that I intend to use to do this along the front of my property line over an illegally placed sidewalk that shall now act as a pathway. My city was given 1 foot leeway into my yard for a sidewalk and they placed it ten feet into my yard when it was laid decades ago, so I'm claiming ownership. 😎😁 The kicker? They infringed on my property for the sake of a young tree... that destroyed part of the sidewalk. 😆
That was incredible. Congratulations not only on the work that you've done but the amazing way that you've documented it. Visually it is stunning. So funny, here in Sydney, where it's been hovering between 35-40c I'm jealous of your cooler weather. Wow, those tomato plants sure know how to party!
Lovely to hear from Australia! 👍 It's actually snowing here today!! ❄❄😂 Maybe a bit too cool for an Aussie! We have fond memories of Wwoofing just outside Sydney many years ago. Thanks for a fab comment 😊
I just love this! looks amazing! it would be so cool to have a heated greenhouse! my greenhouse had frost on the inside this morning! LOL
Our greenhouse is heated only by the sun! ☀All the best for your allotment gardening - we love allotments! 👍
Wow such a beautiful project, and it turned out so gorgeous, I am so happy for you 🧡🌸 Thank you for sharing your journey, God bless you 🧡🌸
Thank you - we are really pleased with the way it turned out - such a beautiful place to work 💚😀
Your greenhouse is so aesthetic and well designed! Congratulations.
Ah, thank you! ☺ Hard to believe it all started as a rough sketch on a scrap of paper! Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
You need a big fan in there.
Indeed, we would like one. We need to do some more research!
Wow. A wonderful greenhouse, built with so much love. Wishing you lots of success for the new season! 🌱💚
Thanks for your lovely comment 😊 Yes - the new growing season is definitely underway! We've had a cold spring so far in the UK this year, but the greenhouse is filling up nicely! 🌱👍
Your garden is so beautiful❤
Thank you! 😀
Very interesting, thank you an good luck to you both. Michael
Glad you enjoyed our greenhouse video 👍
Wow. Beautiful work and Very well done video.
Ahh, thank you, much appreciated! 😃
Great stuff guys. I am a little further down the river, and am also in a bit of a frost pocket. I have a central path in my greenhouse with supports for tomatoes on either side. I ha e overwinter stuff on the path this year by wrapping fleece around the supports and putting bubble wrap over the top..
Living by the river is wonderful and we wouldn't swop for anything, but frost pockets can be a real pain for growing! Good luck with your greenhouse - we use a lot of fleece too, inside our old polytunnel regularly and outside too.
I love it! Great job! Did you ever think of adding a wood stove to help heat the green house too? You may have to add a fan to help circulate the air flow but that could help more plants for the winter maybe! ❤ it guys great job!!
Thanks - appreciate the comment. We've seen wood burners in other greenhouses in cold climates, but that's a step too far for us. We like to use the natural heat produced by the sun if possible and save our logs for heating the house in the winter 🌞👍