Have to say that your videos are by far the most educational on how to start a permaculture garden and in particular transitioning into a more permanent food bearing system. Thank you for taking the time to talk in so much detail. It is hugely appreciated.
Thanks, it seems like a good concept. This next season we need to be more on top of the trellising and strings and get them much higher up so they really do some good work. It makes sense conceptually, just needs the practice to match it.
Hi from New Zealand. Gorgeous garden and so nice to see the washing on the line. That is something the majority of Kiwis still do, only using a dryer in prolonged bad weather.
Thanks for sharing your videos! It's really cool to see what you've been doing with all of your land. Lots of great ideas, solutions and inspiration here.
I’m not surprised that it doesn’t use that much water. When you close the door the amount of water that they released into the air gets soaked back into the soil throughout the night. I work at a nursery and I was amazed to see how they will take shrubs that are dormant for the winter and water them and put them in a completely enclosed 5 x 6 x 5’ tall green house with the opaque white plastic over the frame and they might not water it for months I was told when I inquired.
Nicely Done! I've got the materials for building one and even started putting it together but had to postpone due to excessive Bear traffic on my property. Hope to complete this project before winter weather gets here though...
I'm really enjoying your videos--picking up lots of neat ideas and inspiration. I grew my tomatoes up cattle panels last year for the first time and it worked fantastic--you might want to try that in front. It would be so easy to just hook one up between those posts. Anyways, keep up the great work. Looking forward to many more updates
great greenhouse! Try galvanized fence for your plants to grow up the sides of the greenhouse exterior. Its easy to tie up your tomatoes and other vining vegetables. You can either nail it to your posts or run it over the top the top of your greenhouse. Easy peasie!
I'm trying to figure out what plants I can grow in greenhouse since summers get real hot ... I like the idea but wouldn't pvc pipes be cheaper? I love the shade cloth idea using tomatoes
Eat your shade cloth! Good thinking!👍 Keep it cheap, keep it simple & keep it fun! It is one sure way to keep the mind creative and thinking out of the box! 👍
Use someones old plastic? Find local AG places that have high tunnels and greenhouses and help them remove / replace their old plastic and extend it's life as much as possible. When it is breaking down for your tunnel, cut out the bad stuff and use whats left for small low tunnels and cold frames... Thats the best route I can think of
fhank you for your answer , so there is very little option beside use of plastic that is a real dark point for us as we try to stay away from plastic as much as possible
So you'll want to explore freecycle and craigslist, etc for your area for any and all used glass windows and either build simple cold frames, which are easy to build and there are lots of plans online, or perhaps a greenhouse that only has glazing on the main south side with perhaps some vertical east and west walls made partially of glass windows/doors and a northern wall made of insulating/thermally massive material. Look up 'bioshelter' and see what you find. You should be able to skip plastic entirely if you work at it. Would be great to hear what you come up with
Thanks! The peppers we grow are Bolvian Rainbow. An heirloom I believe? We've saved seed from the fattiest red dried peppers of this for a few years. Super fine pepper for fermenting or drying.
I wish this was still $150. It’s $90 per cattle panel now. Still gonna buy em cuz still the most useable space you can get per sq ft for the price. Someday maybe for a greenhouse, for now as a trellis.
Hi, now that you've had your greenhouse for three years, how is the plastic holding up. I was warned that wind will rub the plastic against the metal and lots of holes would be the result within a year. Can you confirm this? THanks a lot from NZ. E.
Definitely need to do an update video on this... Almost 4 years old now, NO wear or rips in any noticeable way. Definitely recommend using quality greenhouse poly, though, not just cheap contractors poly...
Finger Lakes area, near Ithaca. This greenhouse handled a couple of solid snow loads with no concerns. I've made two more like it, both even more 'lean' in their framing and detail, to see what the edge is for this design concept before it proves not hardy enough! So far it feels like a great basic way to go. Highly recommended!
Thanks so much for the information. I think I'm also going to put in some raised beds into the Cattle Panel greenhouse. I so Appreciate your video. Seems like it can be built quickly and will be low cost! Gotta love that!
Great videos! Question regarding collecting roof rainwater. Is that a "paper" shingled roof? I want to collect rain water here in semi-arid Colorado, but my husband says our "paper" (tar-like with grit granules) roof would be toxic. Any comment on that? Thanks! Keep up the great videos!
He's pretty accurate... It's not ideal. Unfortunately, its what we have available to us so we use it. Its an older roof which means less leeching, but it's not an ideal scenario. Clean, new, sheet metal roofing is best, but I believe in using what I have, and planning for something better when I can!
www.enlight-inc.com/blog/?p=14 here is a useful post on the subject. turns out 'slow sand' filters and first flush diverters can render potable water from asphalt roof runoff.
Did I hear you say you are waiting for the Lemon Grass to seed? No, they don't seed, you need to dig out a stalk of Lemon Grass and plant it else where, Annie Malaysia
You are correct, but my experience is that in the north-your climate, it would probably would not set seed...too short of growing season, but since you are growing it inside the greenhouse, you could get lucky. If not, just do root propagation and oh boy, you will have tons! I love your very informative vids, thanks for posting.
Hi, after having this for quite some time now, does the panel run holes into the plastic? I’ve been warned it would but all videos show positive building stage and no evaluation. Thx, E
In cold and dark upstate NY, this very basic greenhouse provides fresh vegetables through most of the winter? 9:43. I truly want to believe it, but even if it keeps things warm during the day, it gets into the teens and colder pretty much every night. I don't see how this is possible. Again, I want to believe it. What's the secret?
We're still learning with this, and it would be disingenuous to commit to the idea of perfectly fresh veggies ALL winter in this. They are looking haggard now that we're in middle January, but I will say that the super cold hardy things (arugula, kale, parsley, spinach, etc.) are still edible and worth harvesting. I think it is fundamentally about timing / variety and packing in lots of plants to hedge bets. We'll keep chipping away at it, having fresh food from the 'garden' in the mid winter is an important goal for us...
hello ,my son make me same tunnel from 5 Pieces /Just for tomato plant support/ but squirrels eat tomatoes . I live in Philadelphia with tiny backyard ,what about your animals around you
Look for other videos I made on the cattle panels, I have a playlist on them. That will explain more. The blue barrel allows water into it through the holes for winter irrigation needs.
This high tunnel is still fully functional and the plastic is still working just fine. A few holes here or there but overall just fine. We plan to transition it to fall crops here shortly
No blight, but we had a super dry summer so that may have been the reason. Cool theory, it'll get put to the test at some point when we get a rainy summer I'm sure!
Sorry, no. We don't really sell seed, especially from annuals. I'm pretty sure you can order it from Fedco seeds or another good seed source. Perhaps fruition seeds has it? You can google both of those.
I'd wonder if you used plastic from a hardware store or if you spent a little more and went for UV stabilized, 6mil poly. Definitely seems worth the extra money for the real greenhouse plastic.
Good feedback. I had a shootout with a whole bunch of bad guys and some super heroes, and a jet that exploded into rainbows but the scene felt a little long with it. It added 30 seconds onto an otherwise incredibly action packed video, so I cut it. You've made me rethink that decision.
Have to say that your videos are by far the most educational on how to start a permaculture garden and in particular transitioning into a more permanent food bearing system. Thank you for taking the time to talk in so much detail. It is hugely appreciated.
I really appreciate that. Its my pleasure to share all this.
"Let's eat our shade cloth". Oh man, an explosion of ideas in my mind followed on this notion! Terrific, thanks.
Malabar spinach was a huge success in my rain beds this past summer. It got huge. Like 4 feet wide and tried to take over a 4x8 bed! So good!
Great idea re the tomatoes for shade as well as capturing the run off water from the green house ! Thanks for sharing
Thanks, it seems like a good concept. This next season we need to be more on top of the trellising and strings and get them much higher up so they really do some good work. It makes sense conceptually, just needs the practice to match it.
This is best looking greenhouse I have ever seen, looks 'natural' I love what you've done. Subscribed!
It's amazing how much that property changed in such a short time.
It has been 10 years now and it's an entire different landscape
Hi from New Zealand. Gorgeous garden and so nice to see the washing on the line. That is something the majority of Kiwis still do, only using a dryer in prolonged bad weather.
Love the idea to grow summer crops to help shade greenhouse. I’m in South Georgia. It gets a little warm.
Cool green house and looks so good and healthy in there!
I love that you use the word futzing! My NY husband taught me that one.
I am doing this
The Texas prepper also has a great video on a cattle panel green house. Thanks so much on the inspo.
So glad you are into it!
Thanks for sharing your videos! It's really cool to see what you've been doing with all of your land. Lots of great ideas, solutions and inspiration here.
Love the greenhouse, love the whole backyard/garden.
I’m not surprised that it doesn’t use that much water. When you close the door the amount of water that they released into the air gets soaked back into the soil throughout the night. I work at a nursery and I was amazed to see how they will take shrubs that are dormant for the winter and water them and put them in a completely enclosed 5 x 6 x 5’ tall green house with the opaque white plastic over the frame and they might not water it for months I was told when I inquired.
I'm working on my first greenhouse like this now! I hope I'm this productive in year 1! As always you did a great job, man.
just found your channel. I love all the things you are doing and have given me so many ideas for my place. Keep up the good work.
Cattle panels make good trellises for tomatoes and climbing veggies lots of good uses
Everything looks amazing! Greetings from Otsego County. Subscribed!
Very cool....I'd put a shelf in there....grow herbs....yum
Nicely Done! I've got the materials for building one and even started putting it together but had to postpone due to excessive Bear traffic on my property.
Hope to complete this project before winter weather gets here though...
Those tomatoes are a really good idea!
Super helpful! Thanks for sharing, Sean!
great shade idea for the greenhouse so not a hot house.
I'm really enjoying your videos--picking up lots of neat ideas and inspiration.
I grew my tomatoes up cattle panels last year for the first time and it worked fantastic--you might want to try that in front. It would be so easy to just hook one up between those posts.
Anyways, keep up the great work. Looking forward to many more updates
Thanks for the suggestion. I think there is so much more experimenting with cattle panels to be done! I'm looking forward to learning more.
Nice tulsi plant she looks like a beast
great greenhouse! Try galvanized fence for your plants to grow up the sides of the greenhouse exterior. Its easy to tie up your tomatoes and other vining vegetables. You can either nail it to your posts or run it over the top the top of your greenhouse. Easy peasie!
I'm trying to figure out what plants I can grow in greenhouse since summers get real hot ... I like the idea but wouldn't pvc pipes be cheaper? I love the shade cloth idea using tomatoes
Try an Italian climbing summer squash called Tromboncino. Great look, color, and taste.. mne vines grow around 15 ft. here in Oregon.
Thanks for this. We just had friends visit and we cooked them up. AMAZING! We'll definitely be growing them next year.
nice garden.
Eat your shade cloth! Good thinking!👍 Keep it cheap, keep it simple & keep it fun! It is one sure way to keep the mind creative and thinking out of the box! 👍
Thanks for posting this video
Paradise
Nice greenhouse, I see you have dill, where I live it grows everywhere on the roadside :P-.
Inspiring! I believe I can do this after watching your video-thanks! Subscribed.
I love you approach and creativity! How are the King Stropharii doing?
I enjoyed your video, keep it up
any suggestion to do without the use of plastic , we realy like your video , thank you !
Use someones old plastic? Find local AG places that have high tunnels and greenhouses and help them remove / replace their old plastic and extend it's life as much as possible. When it is breaking down for your tunnel, cut out the bad stuff and use whats left for small low tunnels and cold frames... Thats the best route I can think of
fhank you for your answer , so there is very little option beside use of plastic that is a real dark point for us as we try to stay away from plastic as much as possible
So you'll want to explore freecycle and craigslist, etc for your area for any and all used glass windows and either build simple cold frames, which are easy to build and there are lots of plans online, or perhaps a greenhouse that only has glazing on the main south side with perhaps some vertical east and west walls made partially of glass windows/doors and a northern wall made of insulating/thermally massive material. Look up 'bioshelter' and see what you find. You should be able to skip plastic entirely if you work at it. Would be great to hear what you come up with
awesome greenhouse how did it hold up
Coming into year 5 now, and it's in perfect shape!
I'm in great deal
Hello! great video! What is the name of those peppers in your greenhouse?
Thanks! The peppers we grow are Bolvian Rainbow. An heirloom I believe? We've saved seed from the fattiest red dried peppers of this for a few years. Super fine pepper for fermenting or drying.
I wish this was still $150. It’s $90 per cattle panel now. Still gonna buy em cuz still the most useable space you can get per sq ft for the price. Someday maybe for a greenhouse, for now as a trellis.
Hi, now that you've had your greenhouse for three years, how is the plastic holding up. I was warned that wind will rub the plastic against the metal and lots of holes would be the result within a year. Can you confirm this? THanks a lot from NZ. E.
Definitely need to do an update video on this... Almost 4 years old now, NO wear or rips in any noticeable way. Definitely recommend using quality greenhouse poly, though, not just cheap contractors poly...
Did you say that you are in Upstate New York? Very interested as to how the greenhouse is doing in the winter.
Finger Lakes area, near Ithaca. This greenhouse handled a couple of solid snow loads with no concerns. I've made two more like it, both even more 'lean' in their framing and detail, to see what the edge is for this design concept before it proves not hardy enough! So far it feels like a great basic way to go. Highly recommended!
Thanks so much for the information. I think I'm also going to put in some raised beds into the Cattle Panel greenhouse. I so Appreciate your video. Seems like it can be built quickly and will be low cost! Gotta love that!
Grow food, not lawns.🙂
You said it ! Grow clover...
Great videos!
Question regarding collecting roof rainwater. Is that a "paper" shingled roof? I want to collect rain water here in semi-arid Colorado, but my husband says our "paper" (tar-like with grit granules) roof would be toxic. Any comment on that? Thanks! Keep up the great videos!
He's pretty accurate... It's not ideal. Unfortunately, its what we have available to us so we use it. Its an older roof which means less leeching, but it's not an ideal scenario. Clean, new, sheet metal roofing is best, but I believe in using what I have, and planning for something better when I can!
www.enlight-inc.com/blog/?p=14
here is a useful post on the subject. turns out 'slow sand' filters and first flush diverters can render potable water from asphalt roof runoff.
Are you using black locusts for the boarder beds
Yes. Off cuts of black locust from a local mill
Did I hear you say you are waiting for the Lemon Grass to seed? No, they don't seed, you need to dig out a stalk of Lemon Grass and plant it else where, Annie Malaysia
You are correct, but my experience is that in the north-your climate, it would probably would not set seed...too short of growing season, but since you are growing it inside the greenhouse, you could get lucky. If not, just do root propagation and oh boy, you will have tons! I love your very informative vids, thanks for posting.
Hi, after having this for quite some time now, does the panel run holes into the plastic? I’ve been warned it would but all videos show positive building stage and no evaluation.
Thx, E
Glad you asked... Just filmed an update yesterday and plan to publish it today!
Awesome so want to make one
The great news is that this is a very straightforward design to make... I'm sure you can make it happen when you are ready!
In cold and dark upstate NY, this very basic greenhouse provides fresh vegetables through most of the winter? 9:43. I truly want to believe it, but even if it keeps things warm during the day, it gets into the teens and colder pretty much every night. I don't see how this is possible. Again, I want to believe it. What's the secret?
We're still learning with this, and it would be disingenuous to commit to the idea of perfectly fresh veggies ALL winter in this. They are looking haggard now that we're in middle January, but I will say that the super cold hardy things (arugula, kale, parsley, spinach, etc.) are still edible and worth harvesting. I think it is fundamentally about timing / variety and packing in lots of plants to hedge bets. We'll keep chipping away at it, having fresh food from the 'garden' in the mid winter is an important goal for us...
hello ,my son make me same tunnel from 5 Pieces /Just for tomato plant support/ but squirrels eat tomatoes . I live in Philadelphia with tiny backyard ,what about your animals around you
what support the cattle panels, I couldn't see it and I don't understand how the blue barrel with holes work.
Look for other videos I made on the cattle panels, I have a playlist on them. That will explain more. The blue barrel allows water into it through the holes for winter irrigation needs.
Who is watching this in 2022.
Is it still holding strong ?
This high tunnel is still fully functional and the plastic is still working just fine. A few holes here or there but overall just fine. We plan to transition it to fall crops here shortly
Did you get much blight? My theory is when you have a fungal dominated soil with tomatoes there isn't much blight.
No blight, but we had a super dry summer so that may have been the reason. Cool theory, it'll get put to the test at some point when we get a rainy summer I'm sure!
Do you sell any Tulsi seed?
Sorry, no. We don't really sell seed, especially from annuals. I'm pretty sure you can order it from Fedco seeds or another good seed source. Perhaps fruition seeds has it? You can google both of those.
what is the thickness of the plastic?
6mil UV stabilized greenhouse plastic. Search 'am leonard poly remnant sale' and you can see where I bought it from...
I made one of these everything worked but the plastic lasted one year. Over $100 for the plastic
I'd wonder if you used plastic from a hardware store or if you spent a little more and went for UV stabilized, 6mil poly. Definitely seems worth the extra money for the real greenhouse plastic.
Shire music would have been appropriate for this video
Lemon grass don’t have seeds😄
This is how I imagine AI sees the world
cool video.... a car chase or some explosions would break it up a bit, keep things interesting u know.... otherwise, nice job!
Good feedback. I had a shootout with a whole bunch of bad guys and some super heroes, and a jet that exploded into rainbows but the scene felt a little long with it. It added 30 seconds onto an otherwise incredibly action packed video, so I cut it. You've made me rethink that decision.
nasturtiums like poor soils