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Short Season Garden
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Registrace 29. 02. 2020
Cold Climate Gardening in Zone 3. Learn how to compete with the challenges of vegetable gardening in a short season and how you can extend your season without a lot of expense and even grow food in the wintertime.
Building a HIGH TUNNEL GREENHOUSE: Time Lapse
#hoophouse #hightunnel #greenhouse #diyprojects #timelapse
Learn step-by-step how to build a hoop house in this time-lapse video.
0:49 Constructing the base
2:55 Installing the hoops
7:18 Adding the plastic
9:26 Tightening down the plastic
13:43 Building doors
17:23 Automatic venting
Following is the list of materials we used for our hoop house. I have provided Amazon links for everything practical to buy on Amazon. We obtained all our materials locally except the greenhouse plastic and the automatic vent openers. We already had the pocket hole jig necessary to make the doors and saved money by reusing clothesline and lumber strapping.
If you prefer to use standard-width poly film instead of investing in greenhouse plastic, you should check out our CZcams video on JOING PLASTIC SHEETS TOGETHER czcams.com/video/kRrSIoxNdI4/video.html
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2x6 x16’ pressure-treated lumber (4 pieces)
2x6 x10’ pressure-treated lumber (1 piece)
2x4 x 8’ pressure-treated lumber (11 pieces)
½” x 10’ schedule 40 electrical conduit (22 pieces)
¾” x 10’ schedule 40 electrical conduit (1 piece)
½” x 20’ steel rebar (9 pieces)
Used lumber strapping to fasten plastic to doors.
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½” pvc conduit clamps (pkg of 50) amzn.to/3Afvyg8
Heavy Duty Zip Ties amzn.to/46EOCQU
350 ft of clothesline wire (save money by reusing old clothesline) amzn.to/4dbJ9DX
Greenhouse Plastic Sheeting, 24 x 25ft 6 mil amzn.to/4cfYim4
Greenhouse Automatic Vent Opener (2) amzn.to/46B2LPc
Pocket Screws, 2 ½ inch, coarse thread (pkg of 50) amzn.to/3AbRQ2m
Pocket Screws, 1 1/4 Inch, (pkg of 100) amzn.to/4ce2tPt
Kreg K4 Pocket Hole Jig amzn.to/4fwS3xl
Kreg Pocket Hole Jig with Face Clamp (less expensive version of above) amzn.to/3LWDMws
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Learn step-by-step how to build a hoop house in this time-lapse video.
0:49 Constructing the base
2:55 Installing the hoops
7:18 Adding the plastic
9:26 Tightening down the plastic
13:43 Building doors
17:23 Automatic venting
Following is the list of materials we used for our hoop house. I have provided Amazon links for everything practical to buy on Amazon. We obtained all our materials locally except the greenhouse plastic and the automatic vent openers. We already had the pocket hole jig necessary to make the doors and saved money by reusing clothesline and lumber strapping.
If you prefer to use standard-width poly film instead of investing in greenhouse plastic, you should check out our CZcams video on JOING PLASTIC SHEETS TOGETHER czcams.com/video/kRrSIoxNdI4/video.html
BUY LOCALLY:
2x6 x16’ pressure-treated lumber (4 pieces)
2x6 x10’ pressure-treated lumber (1 piece)
2x4 x 8’ pressure-treated lumber (11 pieces)
½” x 10’ schedule 40 electrical conduit (22 pieces)
¾” x 10’ schedule 40 electrical conduit (1 piece)
½” x 20’ steel rebar (9 pieces)
Used lumber strapping to fasten plastic to doors.
BUY LOCALLY OR ON *AMAZON:
See the complete list at amzn.to/3WS7ZD4
Or shop individually:
Galvanized Deck Screws #8 x 3 inch, (pkg of 100) amzn.to/3LTBBtt
#8 x 1 ¼ » deck screws (pkg of 100) amzn.to/3WJfnPY
¼” galvanized flat washers (pkg of 100) amzn.to/4dzbYtO
Screen Door Catch amzn.to/3YulEBs
zinc screen door hinge 2 pack (3pkg) amzn.to/4fspaSO
½” pvc conduit clamps (pkg of 50) amzn.to/3Afvyg8
Heavy Duty Zip Ties amzn.to/46EOCQU
350 ft of clothesline wire (save money by reusing old clothesline) amzn.to/4dbJ9DX
Greenhouse Plastic Sheeting, 24 x 25ft 6 mil amzn.to/4cfYim4
Greenhouse Automatic Vent Opener (2) amzn.to/46B2LPc
Pocket Screws, 2 ½ inch, coarse thread (pkg of 50) amzn.to/3AbRQ2m
Pocket Screws, 1 1/4 Inch, (pkg of 100) amzn.to/4ce2tPt
Kreg K4 Pocket Hole Jig amzn.to/4fwS3xl
Kreg Pocket Hole Jig with Face Clamp (less expensive version of above) amzn.to/3LWDMws
*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
You can also shop from my *Amazon storefront at www.amazon.com/shop/shortseasongarden or check out some *Amazon links below to products we use and enjoy.
Root Farm LED Grow Light USA amzn.to/3ujWngu Canada amzn.to/3OqKgVV Kozy Coats USA amzn.to/48QRYAK Canada amzn.to/47XlkfA Seeding Square USA amzn.to/3I7Jh9D Canada amzn.to/49J7L4G 10 Pack Green Seed Sprouter USA amzn.to/4bJdOYZ Canada amzn.to/3TaUiNx Sprouting Lids for Mason Jars USA amzn.to/48t0NzG Canada amzn.to/3STRSBw Sainlogic Wireless Weather Station USA amzn.to/3w18fEL Canada amzn.to/3vZNRE5 Mason Jar Vacuum Sealer for FoodSaver USA amzn.to/3SzFcQp Canada amzn.to/3UoJIDQ Bubble Poppers (Canning Supplies) USA amzn.to/49dfjgb Canada amzn.to/3Uo4V0y 16 Quart LARGE Stock Pot USA amzn.to/49ohJYU Canada amzn.to/49DuQFK Zoom H1n Portable Recorder USA amzn.to/48WYdD7 Canada amzn.to/3SoUlne Furry Outdoor Lavalier Microphone Windscreen Muff USA amzn.to/3Uig9Uk Canada amzn.to/3SuKTih Black Light UV Flashlight USA amzn.to/4924vBG Canada amzn.to/49mp245 BOOKS Growing Under Cover by Niki Jabbour USA amzn.to/3uHAiJ7 Canada amzn.to/49nFDEo The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour USA amzn.to/42U0Aog Canada amzn.to/42U0Aog Four-Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman USA amzn.to/3wr6HEe Canada amzn.to/3wr6HEe Straw Bale Gardens by Joel Karsten USA amzn.to/42NmBFb Canada amzn.to/42NmBFb All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew USA amzn.to/4bLHtR9 Canada amzn.to/4bLHtR9 Cold-Climate Gardening by Lewis Hall USA amzn.to/3wryu7r Vegetable Gardening in Cold Climates by Douglas Green USA amzn.to/3T84iHt Canada amzn.to/3TbUXy8 Basic Seed Saving by Bill McDorman USA amzn.to/3wvmD8z Canada amzn.to/3wvmD8z Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving USA amzn.to/3Uzpd7d Canada amzn.to/49imtzg
*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
To learn more about shortseasongarden:
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Just bought mines for 81$ at Walmart on clearance
Nice
I wish Donny was MY neighbor! You are very fortunate to have such a talented friend, Mr. Stephen.
You are exactly right. He is indeed a good friend. 😊
😁
Thank you for your video very helpful
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful build!! I'm in zone 3 Wisconsin and I built a cattle panel house 3 years ago for my daughter's chickens. I have a few suggestions. 1st when you close up for the season give the ridgepole some support. Most winters you won't need the support. Our first winter was a normal winter and the structure held up beautifully 👍. The winter of 22/23 was a real monster in our area. The house held up great until a freak storm in April squashed it like a bug. No chickens living there at the time. 2nd the people that owned my home before me left a roll of reflective livestock fence fabric. Its not expensive and worked great for securing the plastic. Much easier on the plastic than any ropes. It spreads out the pressure. 3rd put a vent on each end above the doorway. Your end walls and doorways are much nicer than mine. I'm a hack 😊. Lastly I think putting rebar in the plastic is brilliant!! You guys did real good 👍
Thanks for the compliment and for all the tips. Some great ideas there.
I'm an 8B but we still get plenty of freezing weather and I could sure use something like this.
I am really enjoying it. It will need a bit of supplemental heat when the freezing weather comes though.
That is awesome. How early and later does that extend your growing season where you are?
It is too soon to know how long it will extend my season. By the time we had it ready to plant in the spring, it was almost time to plant the heat-loving plants outdoors. We haven't had our first fall frost yet and hopefully won't for a while. While the hoop house gets very hot in the sun, it does cool down as much inside as outside at night. I have put a couple black barrels of water in it to absorb the heat by day and radiate it at night. I may have to put a little electric heater in it when a frost is predicted. Next year, I will be able to give you a better answer. 😃
Thank you so much for this video , love the step by step how to , great job !
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
At 5:04, why are you screwing into the center of one of the pipes? I thought the concept was to screw it the other way around to support the barrier from falling in.
You are right, the screws would probably offer more support if screwed from the inside out. I think he did it from the outside because it was easier with the screw gun. You'll notice he just barely put the screw into the pipe, leaving as much as possible hanging out to support the lid.
@@shortseasongarden Ah, got it, now I understand.
How successful is this method?
This particular tub was one of the first we made. Overall, we have very good luck with our tubs.
Thank you for exploring the economics of filling a raised bed . I tried a mix of twigs and small brush with the leaves at the base to resolve the compacting issue I had in past. Also no cardboard. Small amount of composted manure added to the thin top layer of "recycled" potting soil. Lettuce and green beans did very well, and amazingly two vigorous tomato plants.(from New England USA)
Thanks for sharing
I love this video and am sharing it with my Vegucators group in the St. Tammany Master Gardeners, Louisiana. Thank you!
@@jeriwalker9764 Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Does it come with a cover? If not, where can you get one?
Yes it comes with a cover. Mine has faded from being out in the sun but it still repels water.
Please just stop You have no idea what a tower is or why to use them It is NOT pails
Interesting application for no till gardening.Super demo sir.
Thank you
Ok I missed something here. What is the wick? Looks like osmosis, since nothing appears to wick the moisture into the soil. How does the water wick into the soil?
I am using the soil itself for the wick. In each container a small portion of soil extends to the bottom of the container to act as a wick. In my favorite 5 gal wicking tubs, either with a false bottom or with two pails stacked, I have a pencil holder filled with soil which extends to the bottom of the water reservoir. You need to moisten all the soil in the container. Then when you fill the reservoir in the bottom with water through the fill tube, the water will seep into the soil in the pencil holder, and "wick" (maybe that isn't the correct technical word) up into the soil above the water compartment. With the soda can example, the soil between the cans accomplishes the same result. As I noted in the video, the milk jug example really doesn't seem to work. Hopefully, that clarifies it for you.
I have used the 2 bucket wicking buckets now for 10 years. At first I would remove the potting soil every fall and save it in barrels and refill the buckets in the spring. Now I don't even remove the soil in the fall. I dump out the water reservoir pull out the root mass and let the potting soil freeze dry over the winter. In the spring they are nice and dry, I just amend the soil with my new recipe (it changes from year to year, depending on the CZcams vids I watch over the winter). In a 5 gallon bucket I grow two Tomato plants (determinate or indeterminate no difference in the space they need or water requirements). I will also plant 4-5 cucumber plants in a 5 gallon bucket and 3 pepper plants. by using this method for these plants, my tomatoes will grow taller than my garage roof (15ft) and my cucumbers will get 12ft tall before I run out of trellis to anchor them too. Location is Saskatchewan Canada, zone 3B.
@@onepanman9852 It sounds like you have it down to a science 😀. Thanks for the input.
Good video!! I live in a mobile home. My bedroom gets very warm. I grew yellow cherry tomatoes in my south facing bedroom window. All in 4 gallon buckets. My fruit production was weak. Im a rookie at this and im sure the plants needed nutrition. On the other hand in the coldest part of winter i had beautiful plants to admire.
I love watering my plants to much I make all my plant food and spend as much time with my plants as I can
I just ordered one of these exact fire pits from Walmart. Received it yesterday afternoon and assembled it, looking forward to using it on the fourth if it doesn’t rain here! Thanks for the video!
Can you harvest the pea Sprouts a second time after the first cut? And how do you keep the peas out of water when you put it on the bottom tray? Or are they immediately submerged in the water?
Basically there is only one harvest although you don’t have to harvest them all at once. The peas go in the top tray. Only the roots go down into the water in the bottom tray.
Very nice
Thank you.
This was the best test I've seen so far on CZcams. Most people don't specify they are growing an indeterminate variety in their tower. Thanks! I look forward to seeing if you come up with something else to make it even better. 😊
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for a clear explanation!
My pleasure
My fire pit is the same as yours, but the rod is to big and will only sit at highest level
That’s too bad. Mine moves up and down freely.
Thank you for this video.I was waiting for the result ✌️
You're welcome 😊
Nice find guys. A lesson for us all to build things sturdy.
Thanks for the video, how are the welds after a couple of years?
All good
So glad to see another video! I hope you are well. I look forward to your wise economical videos. They are so easy to relate to. Thank you. More please!
Thank you so much! Yes I am well. Just very busy these days. Hoping to get out more videos soon.
Very informative! This kind of collapse right here is exactly why I decided to go with a separate, buried "cistern chamber" (basically, a perforated, upside down container with a filler pipe) on my wicking tub, instead of an Earthbox-style false bottom like that. Water is dense and even the lightest, fluffiest potting mix can get VERY heavy when saturated with it. Even with the added screws on the later versions, that flimsy plastic could still collapse. I'm surprised this one lasted 4 years before it failed.
How does it hold up outside in the rain? I've been seeing reviews that it rusts out quickly
I have been very careful to keep it covered and I put it away for the winter. It probably would rust if left uncovered. 😥
I just used a cat litter jug. I actually have same tub.
Very helpful video. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I help kill off soil gnats, fungus and weed seed by putting the moist planting mix in 1-gallon zip-lock brand FREEZER bags, leave a corner open . Lay bag flat and Microwave it 2 minutes, flip over, microwave another 2 minutes (should be steamy and warm now), flip and mwave 1-min, flip and mwave another 1minute, seal the zip,ock. As the steam collapses, the bag will appear to be 'vacuum packed', this way you can tell if it is still sanitized or not after storage.
meadow creature makes the deepest broad forks14- and 16" deep on the market . a limiting factor fro a 64 year old is shoulder integrity. this new hack which allows deeper broad forking with no shoulder strain : I took a roll of 2" nylon mesh (quite light weight) I cut off approximately 10 feet and tied the ends to the tips of the handles (double half hitch) then sunk the 14" fork as deep into the compacted earh as it would go (this took about 1 minute of intensive rocking as it was so hard . Then I walked back and put the 2" webbing behind my butt then gently threw my butt down and back and the handle effortlessly came back from 90 to about 70 degrees from there gripped the handles and I I effortlessly brought them back to 45 degrees bringing in a satisfying chuck of ground (busting te bard pan)BTW I keep the nylon webbing in place with rubber bands .
What is going to happen next tripple cup method? I am a novice at tomato planting. I got me little tomato plants from grocery store, dug a hole and put some potting mix and watered. The results were good, plenty of tomatoes for my needs. Very basic and novice approach and got good results.
Ooooh I’ve been doing this for years and never thought to just start with a couple inches THANK YOUUU
Glad to help. 😃
Double cupping is a waste of time. I use exactly same cups but never double cup them. Place you cupped seedlings in a tray, bottom water them via the tray and that's it.
Ofc it’s a waste of time. Just keep the cups in a tray and water them from bottom. Also get clear cups so you can inspect the roots and know when it’s time to top up.
It is possible that the yield was reduced because the total access to nutrients via volume of soil is lower when in a contained space. I'm curious if anyone knows how far deep and wide that Roots will spread when potatoes are grown in soil good for potatoes but in a traditional Garden row or bed. If potatoes have any kind of fungal relationship with their roots, then potatoes in a traditional garden bed might be able to draw nutrients from much further away than the plant via the way that symbiotic fungus can bring nutrients to the plant. I'm not sure if this happens with certain garden plants but it certainly happens all over the place in a natural ecosystem
That's a lot of plastic there.
Why not just place the planted cups into a solid tray and water into the tray. It’s the same effect, but far less plastic
You can definitely do that. I like to have the air space at the bottom for the cup to drain into so you never need to worry about the roots sitting in water.
So you would start these under lights indoors in late Feb or early March? In order to have a growing season that yields? And plant outdoors in early May? Something like that?
It depends on your last frost. We can get frost here until the middle of June so I start my tomatoes in mid April, 6-8 weeks before the last frost.
If your plants are leggy adjust your grow light. They get leggy cuz they are not receiving enough par, so they stretch to the light.
The trick is to plant new seed potatoes each time you add a level, that way all the levels will have potatoes.
Congratulations!!
What a moron.
Canada is a fire pit. Your commy prime Minister Trudope will soon make burning wood bans because he's a delusional climate Nazi.
Stack them upside down and they will lift easily
Waaaay too many steps needed .... what if you have 100 plants?
You certainly have a point there. It is a bit tedious, but for a few plants, it works well. I am streamlining the process a bit for the next video.
I really enjoyed this video and how you did the troubleshooting on video. I also got an answer to my question regarding how to support the base so as not to crush the yogurt tubs I plan on using for the air pocket containers.
Glad it helped