A whole new purpose for the greenhouse
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2023
- It's that time of year when I completely flip my greenhouse and go from summer plants to seed starting and autumn growing and to do that I need to completely change the set up in there.
The folding greenhouse benches are in place so that I have seed starting and potting up areas, I have storage for compost and mixes and I have shelf space for my seed trays and module trays.
It's time for the autumn and winter growing to start.
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You, and a wee cup of tea, are how I start my day!
Awwwww
Oh and this one…. This was a fun time. I remember this one 🥰
Your greenhouse videos are the best for tips on organizing, storage, seed starting and plant pot ups when space is premium. Simple and straightforward. I just love it, Thank you!!
Glad you find them useful Kathleen 😁
Thank you, just what I needed to hear. I'm still learning how to use my greenhouse. I needed to know there a time to flip the plants to get the most out of your space. I kept my summer plants well into winter just limping along. Now I understand there is a time to get them out and make room for the next season. You are so smart. Sometimes I think we just need permission to do the things we know we should. Letting a plant fo is so hard.
I absolutely agree. Sometimes you know it’s right but you just need someone to agree to give you that confidence boost
That storage tray is brilliant!
😂😂😂 yeah there was quite an excited response to the video when I put it together
I absolutely love how clean & neat you keep your greenhouse. I also love your videos ❤
Keeping it clean and tidy makes a big difference in what you can do with it 😁
Yes! It’s the green and red potting plastic/resin station you brought in at 7:24 time mark. ❤ that! 👍
ah yes that's my greenhouse tidy.
I LOVE that, had it 12 years!
There are links in my amazon page if you want to go nosy.
Perfect timing as I will be rebuilding my greenhouse next year. Thank you!
Good luck 🤞
I’m always jealous of how you keep your greenhouse organized. Mine is a complete mess!
We’ll get it sorted young man 😂😂😂
Love those apple trees outside the greenhouse! Great video! Thank you 😊
Us too
I have raised beds, multiple plastic greenhouses, and even a tiny glass one. Your big, beautiful greenhouse would be a luxury for me. Thankfully there's not much that needs extra sheltering in my zone 4 summers. In my livingroom, I have a few growingspaces for seeds and seedlings made out of cardboard boxes actually! An old writing desk has growlight strips in it and functions as a mini growing space also. I feel I have plenty of space to get on with :D If I ever become a lottomillionaire I'd of course get myself a heated greenhouse!
You’d be surprised how small my greenhouse actually is 😉
@@eliandkate Camera magic! :O
My greenhouse is getting a renovation...thanks for the ideas.
Hurrah!! 😍
Great demonstration of the seasonal change. And it's nice to get such a fantastic season-end harvest.
Always bring a smile when we harvest the peppers
Wow! Look at those apples!
They are tasty 😁
Always providing the perfect video to answer burning needs, questions, conundrums, quandries, troublesome cacophonies, and curious ponderings of possibilities.
Wow….. that sounds so much better than when I say I’m waffling random nonsense in the greenhouse 😂😂😂
Great content yet again, can not wait for the seeds sowing
Roll on spring👏👏
Greenhouse is sparking 😊
Ha ha ha me too
Well.done girl
This was great Eli, I cleaned my greenhouse outside and in today and did a bit of reorganising. Bamboo canes now stored above my head 😂. Thank you for the motivation 👍😊
Glad it got you going 😊
Yeah, I harvested all in my greenhouse & put my redwood tree seedlings
inside to protect them from High winds & frost/freeze till spring.
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😀 yay
Hi Eli simply love the greenhouse , it’s so so clean 😮, wow peppers in abundance I’ve sown peppers for the first time this year only
3 plants and one pepper on each. Still at least I had success, hopefully next year I will have a lot more 🙏🤩
Keep doing what you do your awesome 👩🌾
A little better every year is all we ask 😍😍😍
My greenhouse looks like yours in Spring. At the end of the year once the chilli plants, tomatoes and everything else are gone it looks terrible, leaves and bits of compost everywhere. The tomatoes are now finished and the chillis are on their last gasp so I'll hopefully be back on track doing the end of year refurb and following your example to get things back to clean and tidy! It's about time that I took your advice on the collapsible staging as well. Thanks for a great video I really enjoyed it!
A wee brush and dust up does wonders!
I'm loving how you are putting a time and temperature stamp on your video 😁
Not sure it’s actually of any use but with certain video types people always ask
Nice video Eli , looks like you have room for a nice grape vine above 🍇
I suspect it would need just a bit too much 😂😂😂
The garden yes oce ❤❤❤❤❤yes beatyfuul I nice
Brilliant tips 👍
Your peppers are amazing!
Pleased with them. A few bags of goodies for the freezer there
Great video Eli!, I’ll be doing the same tomorrow a good clear out and flip the greenhouse.
It’s a great feeling getting it done
Still get gobsmacked at the amazing bell peppers you get. You seem to have a great knack for growing them. I'm always a little disappointed in mine. Lol. Job well done 👍
You might just need to find the right variety for you 😍😍😍😍
I wish I could use my greenhouse more in the summer, but I have a thermometer inside and it gets about 45-49 degrees C and everything withers. Even with the doors and windows open, it's too hot. But it's great in the spring and I do use it for storage in the winter. Thanks for the cool tips.
Sounds like flipping to the colder months is a good plan for you
I was looking for the same bins you have for compost and the like and discovered it's amazingly difficult to find them in the US. I was able to find some small ones, but nothing substantial for soil storage without spending a pretty penny and the reasonably manageable size (10 gallons) were out of stock or at scalper prices! Most options i found were only in the EU/UK.
If any other US folks are looking, your key search terms are hopper, bin, lid, front (for hopper-style bins with front and top access lids). May you have more luck than me! :)
They are recycling bins from ikea 😃
@@eliandkate Ah ha! Thank you!!! Looks like IKEA has some here too. I know where I'm headed!
Those peppers and apples look awesome. That's a smart homemade shelf. Thanks for the idea.
Steal away!!
Great video and very helpful to me since this is my first autumn/winter with my greenhouse. I'm setting up some hydroponics and over-wintering some things. Your supermarket pepper looks a lot like the variety I grew this year and it was super productive. It is called Gather's Gold Sweet Italian and I'll definitely be growing that one again next year. I'm also going to look for your King of the North bell pepper. Although, I think the sweet Italian has even a better flavor and is a bit sweeter. I'm looking forward to a few full years of experience with the greenhouse. It has been a long-time dream to have it and now I get to learn how to maximize my use and results.
Yay new greenhouses are the most exciting bit about gardening!!!!
Can’t wait to hear how it goes Bud
Absolutely loved having a nose in your greenhouse from the sofa! You really are amazing at growing those peppers!!😊
I was thinking of you and your enjoyment of a good nosey 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate honestly love a good nosey so thank you 🙂
Excellent video Eli. Loved that you showed your seasonal flip but also went through your greenhouse organization too. Your apple trees outside the greenhouse at the beginning of your video look gorgeous.
Loving the apple trees…. Every day I’m out there 😂😂😂😂
Thankyou for all your brilliant ideas. I have ordered my first greenhouse which will be arriving at the end of October. I’m glad I found your channel. Xx
Yay!!! New greenhouses are exciting!
Tis the season for greenhouse repurposing. I moved my greenstalk vertical planters into my greenhouse to extend my bok choy and lettuce harvests by a few more weeks.
Wow… I’m hoping to keep pak choi and lettuce going outdoors for months yet
Shows how different we all all
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The apples look fantastic!!
Definitely will try King of the North pepper and under low tunnel next year. As you discussed on GS today I’m not big on hot peppers and they can be a bit scary. To me nothing better than a crisp thick walled juicy sweet pepper-Yum!
I also will agree on tomato varieties!! I’m going back to tried and true from here on out as out of 25 varieties of Tom’s I can’t really say I liked any of them. They are called designer heirlooms and they just don’t have the acidity that makes a good tasting and keeping tomato. The catfacing was hideous and texture was just all wrong. We had drought, but I did install drip irrigation. The plants were all healthy and not overwatered. And yes, black krim and Cherokee purple were the worst scarred tomatoes I’ve ever grown.
Ben on Grow Veg just interviewed a veg farmer in UK and he’s not adverse to growing hybrids, you just can’t save seeds. His philosophy for business is if it tastes good, harvests well and is productive it’s a win. I’m all for it. I do like to save seeds, but until I find the Best heirloom Varieties for My garden will I continue on with varieties that are designer.
That is key what you said today about finding the right varieties!
Exciting News! My husband finally took the trailer to get me planks for shelves in garden shed🎉🎉. I waited all year and now I don’t fell like organizing 😂. Oh, all the scrubbing of flats and cells 🙄. I threw on some extras also and now wished I had got new polycarbonate panels as I never know when I will get them😵💫
Thx Eli!
Absolutely agree… grow hybrids, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with growing hybrids and the ones we grow from gardening suppliers seeds are usually really tasty
Hybrids get a bad rep from people who don’t have all the info and don’t understand what it is…
I say go for it
Some great ideas, thank you Eli. I'd already pinched your cane idea for twine storage and have found it so useful throughout this summer.
Might look at the planks of wood making a little shelf, although I had a thought while watching just, I could try utilising a length of guttering, see if that works?
Guttering would be good too
Perfect!! So clever! I use my greenhouse also as a mini-dinner-koffie-place in the transicional seasons. Two fold-away chairs or bench and a small table. Lovely warm and cosy in spring and autumn ❤
Thank you for the heads up on the shelving, i've ordered one for my home greenhouse, they are a really good price!
They are brilliant quality as well
Update to my order, ordered Sunday, arrived today, Tuesday, amazing service!! Well happy!
@anitahaywood9827 that was speedy
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Awesome! You’ve given me ideas. I’m still moving things around. It will take some time to figure out everything but we’re making progress!
The next year will be brilliant as you work out your perfect set up 😍😍😍
I got some King of the north pepper seeds for next year. Hope they do as well for me in Eastern Canada as they do for you! Planning to convert part of my south facing porch into a green house next spring. Hopefully it will let me grow more on without losing so much of the house to seedlings!
Oh that’s going to be exciting!!!
Thanks Eli, hope you are both feeling better. Great video, as always.
Just cleared away my tomatoe & aubergine plants 😢.
My green house is a teeny little thing, 3ft by 5ft I'd guess. But, I have a cunning plan. Having saved hundreds of large water bottles, cut them & mounted them onto bamboo canes, to create new walls. But, arrh changed my mind & shall be using old glass & wood 😅
😂😂😂😂 changing your mind is part and parcel
❤ wow sooo nice peppers.. you know I am green with envy. But.. i have been able to get seeds for king of the north. So next year I am trying again. Are you saving any of your pepper plants? My pepperoni and chillis have done well and I am going to try. BtW how is your fig doing? It was realy warm here in the last 2 weeks and my fig set on fruit .. way to late but stil nice. I am taking my fig into the house over winter. What are you doing with yours? Real good video ❤
No
I tried saving plants one year but it’s just a faff for me
Fig did well, 300% increase in harvest!
Ok so that was 3 figs, but still!!! 😂😂😂
Your peppers look awesome. I don't know what happens to mine, I just little ones, never any size like yours.
Next year then? We trying again??
@@eliandkate most definitely. I wrote down your variety and will see if they are available to me.
What an amazing video, I’ve just having my new greenhouse finished off and can’t wait to move everything in, so exciting ☺️ your video has given me lots of ideas to utilise the space 😀🌱
Yay!!! Going to be fab when you are up and running
I love your enthusiasm, so happy to see your feeling better. Just when I thought against having a greenhouse was out, you pull me back in! (if you get the slight reference, you win a prize lol)
Oh no…. A test!!!! 😂😂😂
First time, this year, I dried apple slices without sugar, a touch of cinnamon and are they good. I left them in the oven at the lowest possible heat, dried totally, and I am so pleased.
I will, unfortunately, need to buy other fruit, but now I can enjoy sugar free dried fruit. No lemon juice either.
I can't have a greenhouse 😥 but I have adapted to that by moving my pepper plant indoors. Over winter my tiny apartment looks more like your greenhouse, but I just can't stop growing stuff. 😂
😂😂😂 I think that sounds like the perfect home!!
This was very satisfying. Stepping back, taking in the whole green house and all the seasons to see just how it works. I'd seen the spring flip but feel like now I've seen it all. Thank you. How do you keep your hands off those apples?!
Oh they are only ripening now…… late season apples… soooo sweet
So good to have you back again ...hope you're both fighting fit now 😊
Fantastic video ... as always packed with such useful great information & advice ... Im just about to clear out my Greenhouse ... after my 1st ever season of growing ...
Can I ask please ... where you bought your Quad grows from or can you recommend anywhere ? Xx
Fingers crossed but the company who sell the quadgrows should be selling them again next month
I’ll let you know when they are
@eliandkate Oh that'd be great if you could ....thanks so much 😊😊😊
Eli Kate you have inspired me, may I please ask what size your greenhouse is. Thanks for your great tips.
It’s 6ft by 8ft
Another great video filled with so many awesome suggestions. Thx and thx for the link to the benches (previously and here). The fact that they fold down is a game changer. Do you also have a link to the pots your tomatoes were in (with the self watering system)? They were obviously big enough? I can't wait to grow tomatoes and hope to year round in my greenhouse (our temp is a pretty standard 70 degrees year round). Oh, about the seed storage - the seeds are ok in the heat of the greenhouse? It doesnt encourage any kind of germination? Thx again!
Waiting on the company coming back online for the quadgrows, as soon as they do I’ll let everyone know.
Seeds are fine, they are stored well
Newbie to your channel and a newbie to growing veg (I mainly grow flowers) and I love your channel. I’m definitely going to get some of the pepper seeds as mine were ok this year but never turned red etc. I love your veg trug and have been wanting one for ages but can’t find one I like. Where did you get yours from if you don’t mind me asking. Thanks Deb
Yay
Growing flowers and veg gives you the best garden 😁
The veg trug was an Etsy buy. I can’t for the life of me remember the shop name though, sorry
Thanks for a great video. Wondering if you could tell me a bit more about the apple trees in front of your greenhouse as they are in containers . Many Thanks.
What do you want to know susan
@eliandkate The name of the apples 🍎 and how do you keep them looking so healthy as I always thought apple trees had to be planted in the ground.
They are falstaff read.
Nope if they are on dwarfing rootstock you can grow them in big pots but you need to keep on top of watering and feeding so they don’t suffer
@@eliandkate many thanks for the reply and loving your videos.
Brilliant video. I'm a newbie to greenhouses and I like the idea of these quadgrow planters. When filling the reservoirs, is is worthwhile putting some feed in the water or would that be too much for the plants? Apologies if this is a silly question.
Yup that’s exactly how you use them
Hey do you have the link for your compost storage containers?
They are IKEA recycling tubs 😁
I’d love to know what you do with the pots at the beginning of your video, what do you do with the compost in them?
Compost from the greenhouse is usually repurposed elsewhere. Planters, beds other pots etc.
If there’s still some in spring it gets sterilised and used for seed starting
Hi there what apples are in the pots by the door I've not much space but want to grow some
The variety is falstaff red but they are so neat and slim because they are a columnar type tree and on very dwarfing rootstocks
You should be able to get them from your local fruit tree specialist
Where did you get your benches and shelves? I can only get expensive not practical ones for mine
I'm guessing you heard me mention it in the video by now but the company are linked int he video description.
At 6 foot 3 there’s not much space left over my head for storage!
You need a taller greenhouse 😂😂😂
I'm guessing that me being in Australia means I can't store my seeds in my greenhouse the way you do? My understanding is they are supposed to be kept cool and though I can probably find a shaded spot in the greenhouse for them... I'm guessing it would still be too hot? (I'd love to though as it would be much easier/faster to just grab them then and there rather than having to walk to the garage to grab them... yes I'm being lazy :D)
Yeah I imagine it would get quite hot in your greenhouse
Hello, I know from one of your previous video you decided not to insulate your greenhouse in winter. Is that still your current thought?
At the minute yup
It did work…. I just didn’t like having the bubble wrap up
@@eliandkate thank you 🙏🏼