Impact of temperature (-fluctuation) & moisture/water vapor in greenhouses on electronics. One thing I tought about for a while now: Why not use waste heat, for example from a home-server/NAS, to heat a greenhouse ? (for this particular greenhouse setting: could a NAS be placed there and would WLAN penetrate through the building materials? Maybe some shenanigans involving solar panels for electricity) Maybe there is an industrial scale aplication? Like server-farm + greenhouse in the more northern regions like scandinavia.
I really enjoy the addition of Chris in the Epic Gardening channel. It brings more depth and valuable content. Having growing tips that I can relate to in the Pacific Northwest is an added bonus considering her tips cover more than just a single region.
I know I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, Chris has been such a great addition to your channel, so thorough! Total off topic side note, I want that siding on her house🤣. Great video, thank you.
"As big as I could go without a permit" was my limit as well. So I wanted a 10' x 26' but had to stop at 20'. Additionally, we are limited to "2 outbuildings" so I can't even get away with a tool shed. There's rules and then there's silliness and I think our city has crossed the line somewhat for gardeners.
Very nice video. Here to prevent overheating we paint the south facing roof with chalk. The moment it gets cloudy and rainy it rains off the windows so that the greenhouse can warm back up after rainy days. The flow water is used to water the plants. Because it has the chalk already in it we dont need to add it to the soil to provide additional Calcium or adjust the pH.
It's so fascinating to me that Chris is 1800 miles NW from me (Nebraska) and has a more tolerable growing climate. Love watching her stuff - great addition to the channel. As for your question - how does one manage a greenhouse in 5a/b when winter temps can and do dip to 30 below Fahrenheit? Is there an adjustment for wind chill vice ambient temp? And - dealing with days of perpetual winds that often equal 50 mph or more? "Frontier land" is a challenge - we get it. :)
Thank you for this fantastic video! Chris, you are a wonderful lady and gardener and gave me great ideas for my greenhouse; where I growherbs and vegetables from seed. Flowers too! The main reason I invested in this is to keep the animals from eating everything. But it has so many more growing virtues too. Thanks for sharing. All wonderful and so helpful!
I see that this is a common comment but….while I love Epic Gardening, the addition of Chris really adds a lot of value for me. I live in a colder zone then Epic main and these topics are great for me. Also she seems cool.
bigger.. you always need a bigger greenhouse, i got me a 2+ times the size i had before so i could sit in it too, chairs and table went out pretty fast to make room for more growing :)
Dark water barrels would be a great source of radiant heat, utilizing verticle space is perfect for a small area. Never knew the north to south placement, I would have thought the opposite. Very informative
I was already following Chris on Instagram so I glad she is part of the team. There are allot of great ideas here for most of us in lower zones. Thanks for this great and useful video.
Wonderful to see a fellow Canadian gardener on the channel, and thanks for the greenhouse tour! Hello from Nova Scotia! I built a small 6x9 foot greenhouse with lumber and my neighbours old windows then painted it purple, it’s quite a lovely feature in the garden now :)
I live in a very continental climate with long and very hot summers (=long growing season) and short, but often very cold winters and this combination of zones on the channel is really helpful.
After watch this- my property just is not greenhouse friendly. Thank you Chris- this answered a lot of questions I’ve had and answered questions I didn’t know I had.
Her overview of the greenhouse is so thorough and infused with practical considerations for setting up. I have been wanting to get a greenhouse and never even thought about city ordinances...good to know!
I've always wondered how pollinators work for season extending plants like tomatoes. Do you get sufficient insects flying in through the door/vents or do you have to hand pollinate?
I think it would cool to see videos on what you’re currently planting/starting in your home garden. As a new gardener, I’m trying to figure what I can grow with this hot weather approaching. I’m also in zone 10b but on the opposite coast.
What an incredible and comprehensive tour of your greenhouse! We are so grateful to have met you and are so inspired by your thoughtful and helpful content. So, so great! Thank you from all of us at BC Greenhouse Builders :)
Great video! Chris is an amazing addition to the epic team. Her videos are especially helpful for me in central europe as we are growing in the same climate zone.
Have watched your channel for a long time and have loved it but this brings it up a notch since I also live in Vancouver and have a BC Greenhouse Builder greenhouse! - Such a great, good quality product. Love her content. Thank you!
I love how her plants in the greenhouse are looking so healthy! I think its because its protected from pest and disease unlike plants grown outside in the open.
I love that you have Chris as a contributor here on the Epic Gardening channel! And I specifically enjoyed how you introduced her and then "poof" we were transported to Vancouver lol
Lovely greenhouse that, makes me wish I could have a bigger one (4x6), if you need to get the temps down in summer, wet the floor with a hose pipe, drops the temp back quite bit plus if you got any spider mites makes it quite uncomfortable for them, im growing in autopots in my greenhouse this year, keeps roots cool and the plants don't really suffer, most of my plants suffered last year till I hosed the floor down, all but a Carolina reaper 🌶 which seamed to just laugh at the sun
OK, so I got a cheap GH to raise tomatoes this summer. Oh, it grew nice tomatoes BUT, !MAN! Whattalotta work a GH is!!!!!! When the sun comes out the temp inside skyrockets to 120F if you let it. I put a remote thermometer in mine & carry it in my pocket so I can check the temp often. When the temp jumps up to 80F I go out & open up the door & windows & get the fans running. THEN, if clouds roll in, the temp drops and I have to go back out, close up the GH & the heater kicks on. WHATAHASTLE!!!!!! You gotta babysit this thing. If you have a hard side GH you can put in powered windows & vents and automate the heat/cool. SO, I moved my GH into my garage for the winter. !
Thank you for this segment! I've been contemplating a hoop house for years to over winter pomegranate trees and the like, and start plants from seeds and have a source of winter greens. I'm worried about bugs, mold, mildew. Can you do a segment on greenhouse management. I recently found scale on rose cuttings I started 6 months ago in my kitchen window. I wouldn't want to lose a whole greenhouse of plants to pests.
Incredible set up, the green house is so cute too everything looks easy to work in and so loved what a beautiful space for gardening, thanks for the video owesome stuff
I have this same greenhouse. Love seeing your set up. I have a waist high growbed set up in mine. I use it for early starting dahlias etc. I move it outside during summer. I’m in Bellingham, Washington. We get the same weather as you.
Thank you Chris! I am curious how the overcast skies during your rainy season impacts your ability to warm the green house. Do you have to heat it during the day too?
Great video! I learned a ton and can't wait for more! Concerning the space heater (as an artist I use one for my studio during the winter for temperature stabilization), most free standing units require nothing be within 3 feet in all directions otherwise its considered a severe fire hazard. Please be careful!
Great information for the future of my garden love the greenhouse thank you for sharing and answering many questions I had especially Orientation…stay blessed
I picked up a greenhouse this year as well!. These were some great tips that I'm going to apply especially in my very hot Southern Ontario climate :) Thanks Chris
I had a greenhouse but we had a very bad wind storm and it destroyed it. Had it weighed down w sand bags but it wasn't enough. Later learned it was a tornado that did the damage. Next time I'll find something more sturdy.
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I love such tours!! It is always fun for me to learn more about gardening. It has been a year but I still consider myself as a novice. I developed an interest for gardening when I saw my neighbor's glass greenhouse. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLLLL! I got to know that they bought it from Mulberry Greenhouses and bought myself a polycarbonate greenhouse for sale.
i have wanted a passive solar /chinese style green house forever. those deep winter ones are pretty awesome. there are a few here on YT. citrus in the snow is a good one. arkopia YT i just saw built one buy him self recently too
Thank you. I’m sorry that my question has nothing to do with this video but I couldn’t find any information on the internet. I bought a few bags of hardwood pellets mainly for fuel but I’d like to find out if they can be used as mulch.
Something people don't know about greenhouses is that it's bad for the health of plants. They're almost always made from UV filtering material, and plants NEED those UVs. So a plant growing in a greenhouse will have a lower Brix than a plant outside, meaning it'll produce less sugars, be less healthy, and attract pests. This is why so often you have pests in greenhouses, like red arachnids on tomatoes. Now greenhouse manufacturers are starting to learn about this, so you can buy greenhouses that do not filter out UVs. Buy those if you can.
Cool video! I love the style of the greenhouse. Not that she'd want this but could she have 2 small greenhouses to meet the size limits instead of getting a permit?
Excellent presentation. How easy was it to put together your green house from BC Greenhouses? How cold does it get in winter where you are? I am in the US Zone 5 and it can get down to -20F in the winter. I would like a green house and I am researching them now.
This was a great intro for me about greenhouses. I'm in southern California right now, though we're planning to move somewhere to the mid-West soon. However, as food prices are skyrocketing, I want to grow some of our own veggies and fruits. BUT, I am very concerned about growing anything outside these days because God knows what they're spraying in the skies and what's it's doing to the soils and the plants, and I don't want to eat anything that's been exposed to whatever is coming down from those chemtrails. Are there any other options aside from a greenhouse that we could employ that we could build ourselves for not too much money? We've got a good size backyard that is kind of a mess at the moment as my husband is trying to plant some trees and shrubs, and a collection of "stuff", but there's still plenty of space to grow food as well. And it gets sun nearly all morning and afternoon though it's on the north side of the house. The sun just shines down all day, and it can and does get very hot in the summer here. And little to no rain from April on. Oh, and our current soil is useless (dry sandy to hard clay) though plenty of weeds have no problem growing in it! 🤪 So we'll have to get some good dirt in here for whatever we wind up doing. Whatever you can suggest would be brilliant! Thanks so much!
I will soon build a trellis out of wood for a dragonfruit plant. Should I treat the part that is in the ground and if so, with what? Can somebody answer me please
I'm asking this question on the latest video as I hope I may be more likely to get a response from anyone. I've just started and I really would like to grow mangos and avocados. I know that you can't grow good edible stuff from the seed, and that you have to graft from a tree that has already produced good mangos and avocados (at least I think that's how it works). However I don't know where exactly I can get what I need in order to graft and, as far as I'm aware, no one near me in rainy England grow mangos and avocados for eating. What's the best way to do this? I've heard people talk about ordering from nurseries, but I'm often hesitant to do it out of fear that I may get scanned. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you! This was SO helpful - both in confirming the things I´ve done right, and in offering some really helpful hints. I´d love some hints on season extension come the fall. I´m in zone 6a in Denver and had some luck with greenhouse greens and even snap peas into December. But I´m still not sure when is the best time to start seeds for extending the season through the winter. Plenty of herbs all winter and I had some lettuce and spinach in the greenhouse that puttered along from November to Feb and then exploded in early March, which was very nice, but I´d like to understand how to manage this so I have more on purpose and less just by accident! :0)
Now that you've seen Chris' full greenhouse, what greenhouse growing topics should we cover next?
How do u get funding. How did you start ...every thing cost money even "dirt" soil and substrate
Heating and electric for early growing season in cold climates.
Can we get a “temporary greenhouse” or cold weather covers video soon?
Impact of temperature (-fluctuation) & moisture/water vapor in greenhouses on electronics.
One thing I tought about for a while now: Why not use waste heat, for example from a home-server/NAS, to heat a greenhouse ?
(for this particular greenhouse setting: could a NAS be placed there and would WLAN penetrate through the building materials? Maybe some shenanigans involving solar panels for electricity)
Maybe there is an industrial scale aplication? Like server-farm + greenhouse in the more northern regions like scandinavia.
How about sweet potatoes? we have seen your regular poatoe harvests but nothing in sweet taters! Would make a.great video
I really enjoy the addition of Chris in the Epic Gardening channel. It brings more depth and valuable content. Having growing tips that I can relate to in the Pacific Northwest is an added bonus considering her tips cover more than just a single region.
I was so excited! I live on Vancouver Island and was so stoked for content so close to home.
I agree. I live in Southern California but she’s so great in her videos. Def a new fan
I know I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, Chris has been such a great addition to your channel, so thorough!
Total off topic side note, I want that siding on her house🤣. Great video, thank you.
Means a lot to hear!
"As big as I could go without a permit" was my limit as well. So I wanted a 10' x 26' but had to stop at 20'. Additionally, we are limited to "2 outbuildings" so I can't even get away with a tool shed. There's rules and then there's silliness and I think our city has crossed the line somewhat for gardeners.
This is the most thorough explanation I've seen on a hobby greenhouse. Chris is doing an amazing job!!! Thanks Kevin!
Very nice video. Here to prevent overheating we paint the south facing roof with chalk. The moment it gets cloudy and rainy it rains off the windows so that the greenhouse can warm back up after rainy days. The flow water is used to water the plants. Because it has the chalk already in it we dont need to add it to the soil to provide additional Calcium or adjust the pH.
It's so fascinating to me that Chris is 1800 miles NW from me (Nebraska) and has a more tolerable growing climate. Love watching her stuff - great addition to the channel. As for your question - how does one manage a greenhouse in 5a/b when winter temps can and do dip to 30 below Fahrenheit? Is there an adjustment for wind chill vice ambient temp? And - dealing with days of perpetual winds that often equal 50 mph or more? "Frontier land" is a challenge - we get it. :)
More insulation, more heating elements!
Thank you for this fantastic video! Chris, you are a wonderful lady and gardener and gave me great ideas for my greenhouse; where I growherbs and vegetables from seed. Flowers too! The main reason I invested in this is to keep the animals from eating everything. But it has so many more growing virtues too. Thanks for sharing. All wonderful and so helpful!
I see that this is a common comment but….while I love Epic Gardening, the addition of Chris really adds a lot of value for me. I live in a colder zone then Epic main and these topics are great for me. Also she seems cool.
bigger.. you always need a bigger greenhouse, i got me a 2+ times the size i had before so i could sit in it too, chairs and table went out pretty fast to make room for more growing :)
Chris is like having a reporter on-site….well done! Getting a tour of how these are used is a rare treat. Thank you!
Dark water barrels would be a great source of radiant heat, utilizing verticle space is perfect for a small area. Never knew the north to south placement, I would have thought the opposite. Very informative
"Scorching sun" in B.C. 😂🤣 Hi from San Antonio, Texas
😁
I was already following Chris on Instagram so I glad she is part of the team. There are allot of great ideas here for most of us in lower zones. Thanks for this great and useful video.
Wonderful to see a fellow Canadian gardener on the channel, and thanks for the greenhouse tour! Hello from Nova Scotia! I built a small 6x9 foot greenhouse with lumber and my neighbours old windows then painted it purple, it’s quite a lovely feature in the garden now :)
Kevin, Chris is a wonderful addition to your team, as is Jacques.
I live in a very continental climate with long and very hot summers (=long growing season) and short, but often very cold winters and this combination of zones on the channel is really helpful.
Just want to say, Chris has been a fantastic addition to the Epic Gardening team.
After watch this- my property just is not greenhouse friendly. Thank you Chris- this answered a lot of questions I’ve had and answered questions I didn’t know I had.
Glad to hear!
Her overview of the greenhouse is so thorough and infused with practical considerations for setting up. I have been wanting to get a greenhouse and never even thought about city ordinances...good to know!
Subscribing for Chris! Finally found a BC based gardener with a lot of practical knowledge!
I've always wondered how pollinators work for season extending plants like tomatoes. Do you get sufficient insects flying in through the door/vents or do you have to hand pollinate?
what a good question!
I leave a window open and some days the door I leave open. Once I see honey bee's in my green house I feel better.
I think it would cool to see videos on what you’re currently planting/starting in your home garden. As a new gardener, I’m trying to figure what I can grow with this hot weather approaching. I’m also in zone 10b but on the opposite coast.
What an incredible and comprehensive tour of your greenhouse! We are so grateful to have met you and are so inspired by your thoughtful and helpful content. So, so great! Thank you from all of us at BC Greenhouse Builders :)
Great video! Chris is an amazing addition to the epic team. Her videos are especially helpful for me in central europe as we are growing in the same climate zone.
Have watched your channel for a long time and have loved it but this brings it up a notch since I also live in Vancouver and have a BC Greenhouse Builder greenhouse! - Such a great, good quality product. Love her content. Thank you!
Two questions: Did you set-up the kit or did you have a contractor set it up, and does this company ship to the US?
I love how her plants in the greenhouse are looking so healthy! I think its because its protected from pest and disease unlike plants grown outside in the open.
you can get pest and disease indoors as well, sometimes more because the bigger predators have a harder time getting in.
I love that you have Chris as a contributor here on the Epic Gardening channel! And I specifically enjoyed how you introduced her and then "poof" we were transported to Vancouver lol
Chris is awesome! Always has great tips and info. 🌞
This is so helpful, I can’t get enough of this greenhouse content. Keep up the awesomeness!
So much more room for activities! 😂 sorry, as soon as she said that all I could think was the movie step-brothers.
Such great information! Chris covers all the details so thoroughly! This helps me to plan for my future greenhouse! Thank you!👏💕
Lovely greenhouse that, makes me wish I could have a bigger one (4x6), if you need to get the temps down in summer, wet the floor with a hose pipe, drops the temp back quite bit plus if you got any spider mites makes it quite uncomfortable for them, im growing in autopots in my greenhouse this year, keeps roots cool and the plants don't really suffer, most of my plants suffered last year till I hosed the floor down, all but a Carolina reaper 🌶 which seamed to just laugh at the sun
Absolutely wonderful greenhouse and energy. Thank you for the inspiration xx
This is awesome! I had no idea a greenhouse would let someone in Canada grow tropical fruit! Wow!
Chris! Awesome seeing you here 😊
Well done Chris. I appreciate you explaining the features that you built.
She’s so awesome
OK, so I got a cheap GH to raise tomatoes this summer. Oh, it grew nice tomatoes
BUT,
!MAN! Whattalotta work a GH is!!!!!! When the sun comes out the temp inside skyrockets to 120F if you let it.
I put a remote thermometer in mine & carry it in my pocket so I can check the temp often. When the temp jumps
up to 80F I go out & open up the door & windows & get the fans running. THEN, if clouds roll in, the temp drops
and I have to go back out, close up the GH & the heater kicks on. WHATAHASTLE!!!!!! You gotta babysit this thing.
If you have a hard side GH you can put in powered windows & vents and automate the heat/cool.
SO, I moved my GH into my garage for the winter.
!
That's a nice size greenhouse for most backyard gardeners. Good use of the space.
Thank you for this segment! I've been contemplating a hoop house for years to over winter pomegranate trees and the like, and start plants from seeds and have a source of winter greens. I'm worried about bugs, mold, mildew. Can you do a segment on greenhouse management. I recently found scale on rose cuttings I started 6 months ago in my kitchen window. I wouldn't want to lose a whole greenhouse of plants to pests.
Thanks for sharing your greenhouse Chris, it's beautiful!
Incredible set up, the green house is so cute too everything looks easy to work in and so loved what a beautiful space for gardening, thanks for the video owesome stuff
I have this same greenhouse. Love seeing your set up. I have a waist high growbed set up in mine. I use it for early starting dahlias etc. I move it outside during summer. I’m in Bellingham, Washington. We get the same weather as you.
Beautiful Greenhouse! 💚🌱
Thank you Chris! I am curious how the overcast skies during your rainy season impacts your ability to warm the green house. Do you have to heat it during the day too?
Great video! I learned a ton and can't wait for more!
Concerning the space heater (as an artist I use one for my studio during the winter for temperature stabilization), most free standing units require nothing be within 3 feet in all directions otherwise its considered a severe fire hazard. Please be careful!
Chris looking like a garden thug with that oversized plaid coat and flat bill hat 👌🏻. i dig it
Epic Gardening should make garden gnomes in Kevin's image that pop up from behind plants. I'd buy them.
I love the long greenhouse tour with not a huge footprint!
Great information for the future of my garden love the greenhouse thank you for sharing and answering many questions I had especially Orientation…stay blessed
Thanks Chris You are Awesome !!
I picked up a greenhouse this year as well!. These were some great tips that I'm going to apply especially in my very hot Southern Ontario climate :) Thanks Chris
What does the electricity end up costing to heat the greenhouse in the winter? Space heaters use a lot of power!
I had a greenhouse but we had a very bad wind storm and it destroyed it. Had it weighed down w sand bags but it wasn't enough. Later learned it was a tornado that did the damage. Next time I'll find something more sturdy.
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I love such tours!! It is always fun for me to learn more about gardening. It has been a year but I still consider myself as a novice. I developed an interest for gardening when I saw my neighbor's glass greenhouse. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLLLL! I got to know that they bought it from Mulberry Greenhouses and bought myself a polycarbonate greenhouse for sale.
Great video! Thanks Chris🌿
Sorry, I went to click the LIKE icon & it hit the dislike one!! Please ignore it!!! GREAT video!!!!! Love this collaboration!!!
I used marine ply as the bench tops, as once painted, water runs off.
I love Chris`setup! Would love it in my backyard!
Me too⭐
I love Chris!
Greenhouse envy you say! Dr. Phil says, maybe you need to get a great big one.
Ooooooh yesss, Chris has the best vids
im so jealous of your backyard. I really wish I had less house and less pool and more space for gardening.
Very comprehensive explanation. Excellent, practical tips!
love the place, Bamboo works great around water as well
Lots of good practical choices and ideas. Great info.
i have wanted a passive solar /chinese style green house forever. those deep winter ones are pretty awesome. there are a few here on YT. citrus in the snow is a good one. arkopia YT i just saw built one buy him self recently too
Can we get an updated berry plant video lol and harvesting and other information like that? I love your videos!!!!!!!
Love u Kevin but we want more of Chris lol... Chris u should have a channel too :)
Nice GH. Wish I could get 1
Really good info!
Green house set up she is amazing n so ru in the garden zen ✳
Thank you. I’m sorry that my question has nothing to do with this video but I couldn’t find any information on the internet. I bought a few bags of hardwood pellets mainly for fuel but I’d like to find out if they can be used as mulch.
Something people don't know about greenhouses is that it's bad for the health of plants. They're almost always made from UV filtering material, and plants NEED those UVs. So a plant growing in a greenhouse will have a lower Brix than a plant outside, meaning it'll produce less sugars, be less healthy, and attract pests. This is why so often you have pests in greenhouses, like red arachnids on tomatoes. Now greenhouse manufacturers are starting to learn about this, so you can buy greenhouses that do not filter out UVs. Buy those if you can.
Wow beautiful garden my friend Green house
Beautiful greenhouse !
thanks that was good
Good stuff !
I'd love to know where you bought your greenhouse staging. I can't find anything that looks so good online.
Most excellent video. Answered alot of my questions! Thank you!🌈❤️🌎✌️
How do you water your plants? I have bought misting systems hooked into timers that allow it to water twice a day.
vibin' greenhouse
nice greenhouse I would like to have a greenhouse one day
Cool video! I love the style of the greenhouse. Not that she'd want this but could she have 2 small greenhouses to meet the size limits instead of getting a permit?
How come supplies and stuff like simple trellis/supports are so absolutely ridiculously expensive?
Love the channel but can’t buy at such high prices.
I want one some day thanks for reminding me lol
Excellent presentation. How easy was it to put together your green house from BC Greenhouses? How cold does it get in winter where you are? I am in the US Zone 5 and it can get down to -20F in the winter. I would like a green house and I am researching them now.
This was a great intro for me about greenhouses. I'm in southern California right now, though we're planning to move somewhere to the mid-West soon. However, as food prices are skyrocketing, I want to grow some of our own veggies and fruits. BUT, I am very concerned about growing anything outside these days because God knows what they're spraying in the skies and what's it's doing to the soils and the plants, and I don't want to eat anything that's been exposed to whatever is coming down from those chemtrails. Are there any other options aside from a greenhouse that we could employ that we could build ourselves for not too much money? We've got a good size backyard that is kind of a mess at the moment as my husband is trying to plant some trees and shrubs, and a collection of "stuff", but there's still plenty of space to grow food as well. And it gets sun nearly all morning and afternoon though it's on the north side of the house. The sun just shines down all day, and it can and does get very hot in the summer here. And little to no rain from April on. Oh, and our current soil is useless (dry sandy to hard clay) though plenty of weeds have no problem growing in it! 🤪 So we'll have to get some good dirt in here for whatever we wind up doing. Whatever you can suggest would be brilliant! Thanks so much!
I will soon build a trellis out of wood for a dragonfruit plant. Should I treat the part that is in the ground and if so, with what?
Can somebody answer me please
what kind of reflective panels do you have in there?
Can you address growing tomatoes here in the Vancouver / Fraser Valley. Without a greenhouse it seems impossible with Blight.😊
Hi, I have a similar greenhouse (curved roof) and I'm trying to find a way to collect rainwater. Any ideas 🙏 thank you
Hi. Great video. Do you know If you can do Hydroponics in a greenhouse?
i would like to know how much that model cost please?
I'm asking this question on the latest video as I hope I may be more likely to get a response from anyone. I've just started and I really would like to grow mangos and avocados. I know that you can't grow good edible stuff from the seed, and that you have to graft from a tree that has already produced good mangos and avocados (at least I think that's how it works). However I don't know where exactly I can get what I need in order to graft and, as far as I'm aware, no one near me in rainy England grow mangos and avocados for eating. What's the best way to do this? I've heard people talk about ordering from nurseries, but I'm often hesitant to do it out of fear that I may get scanned. Any help would be appreciated.
This is awesome
Thank you! This was SO helpful - both in confirming the things I´ve done right, and in offering some really helpful hints. I´d love some hints on season extension come the fall. I´m in zone 6a in Denver and had some luck with greenhouse greens and even snap peas into December. But I´m still not sure when is the best time to start seeds for extending the season through the winter. Plenty of herbs all winter and I had some lettuce and spinach in the greenhouse that puttered along from November to Feb and then exploded in early March, which was very nice, but I´d like to understand how to manage this so I have more on purpose and less just by accident! :0)
Yea get the shade cloth. It’s worth it.