Why This Is Better Than A Greenhouse
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Even though spring is in the air we are still not in our growing season. Freezing nights and stormy days are a hostile environment for our little tender plants. While nature is still waiting to bless us with its green colors and flowers we want to give our garden plants a head start by putting them into our cold frame.
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Glad to see you letting your daughter help and encouraging her the way you did. Always take time for your children.
Simeon,
I just want to say thank you again. The peacefulness of your videos brings tears of appreciation to my old eyes.
I love that we're more alike than different ! North Carolina, USA
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I love you.
I gave up at 3:02 then I saw your comment hahah thanks mate
Tedious.
@@MsAnamonique - Haha! Glad to be of assistance :)
My hero
Your little helper brought a big smile to my face and I felt a big surge of happiness in my chest. I have three daughters and they have all grown up (22, 32 and 42) and now have their own families with 2 grandchildren, and I miss them. Cherish every moment you have when they are young! I'm sure you do. And the idea of heat from the house and the double layer of plastic works? That's awesome. A great idea. Thanks for sharing.
How sweet, little Ellie..made me smile!!....reminds me of my little girl, Lotus , who I sometimes call "L" 😍 (she's 19 now) 💛 from BC Canada ..
I love cold frames and similar things. Here in central Ontario (Canada) I just couldn't grow tomatoes without a greenhouse. Have a blessed weekend everyone.
What an adorable little helper you have :)
I have been starting all of my plants in one for years. Great structure. Easy to build and maintain. And they can be as big or as small as you need. Nice job.
@@Jj-gi2uv ... or "cold frame." Just keeping the outside air from circulating and wind from hitting the plants is huge.
We have s bad winter storm coming threw starting tonight( fri) threw Sunday. Ugh.
I remember when my children were Ellies size💥 Now its tge grandkids turn💗. Have a wonderful weekend. Bless your family.
I think I used to follow you…..glad to see you again. Loved the cold frame.
your little helper is to cute! So nice seeing the kids get involved.`Thank you for sharing!
Too cute.
Always nice when Spring arrives.
The field at the start is so productive you have rock gardens pocking through all over
What a clever gadget! Thanks for showing how it works. I would love to try this way of sprouting seeds!
Jim
Those soil blocks are wonderful..
Have a wonderful weekend 🌻
I don't know why, but around 04:45 - 05:00, I started thinking about brownies, they looked kind of good all neatly arranged there....
LOL Nice cakey kind of brownies. :-)
stan,ME TOOOOO!!! lololol
Brilliant sowing! Thank you for sharing.
That is an awesome cold frame great job. I have not used soil blocks but it looks as they are the way to go.
The drone shot in reverse was very nice. Love your well worn wheel barrow. Your helper is too cute- pretty in pink.
Low cold frames work fine if you do not have heavy snow. I am starting seedlings and we have over a foot of snow and some winters up to 4 feet of snow this time of year. I like my poly greenhouse for here. I can stand and work. Located in Central Oregon Cascades N 44 degrees
I love the construction of your cold frame and that soil block maker ive never seen that before, what a clever device.
That's amazing. I would never have thought of that. Thanks so much for posting.
Hi from Minnesota, USA. We too are so excited for the return of sun and for spring to really start. Your property looks a lot like ours. Only warmer at this point!, luv the channel.
I start my plant on the north side of my home and gradually expose my plants to the weather. Give my plants a gentle exposure to the sun. Got a mini greenhouse just for my new plants to keep them warm at night. Once they are use to the weather, I leave them outside of the greenhouse until they are ready to be planted.
When you get help from Angels (@3:29), for sure your plants will grow very good.Thanks for sharing.
I like how you put the wood in there to roll it up! I might borrow that
I started using a soil blocker last year....I really like it as no plastic involved & it doesn't take long to bang out a whole load of blocks once you get in the swing of it.. I have old plastic modules that I also use but once they have died I won't replace them.
Thank you Swedish Homestead for an awesome video and letting the viewers watch you and your esteemed helper start the foundations for the seedlings. Usually, even though some really excellent videos can be found on youtube regarding many different issues with growing, sometimes the very first part of the plant's life gets skipped over and it kinda leaves us noobs wondering how it all started. Like starting a book on the 2nd chapter : ) So many thanks.
I love the gadgets, although the gadget for the soil blocks seems kind of unnecessary for the scale of his little enterprise. Still, he's maximizing his available space with this system, I think, and getting uniformity of conditions for all the plants, which is good. When you just do it all by hand, some are planted deeper, some have thicker soil, some have harder-packed soil, etc.
my grandmother was from Sweden--she came to America years ago on the ship=Celtic last name is=Lund....sure wish I could find relatives there seems like it said==Karda Sweden Thanks for the video.
Very cool idea. Enjoy your spring time. It's been yo-yo weather in southeast Texas, USA. Grass started growing in mid February here..just as ya think you can mow the yard plant the years crops...it's freezing and raining..but it's a challenge and that's what I love
Thank you
Beautiful drone footage of your place. Thank you for showing how you make the soil blocks. Very nice update. Have a great today! Catherine
Nice soil blocker; I may have to invest in one of those. This video is a perfect example of how easy it is extending the growing season with a cold frame. These grow houses are so inexpensive and easy to build with mostly recycled materials; I think everyone should have at least one of these in place.
Ground still frozen in upstate NY, had snow yesterday (1 inch) will probably melt today. The lake around your property must keep it warmer than what you'd think it should be for your latitude. Love your cold frame and plan to build one here. Great inspirational video---keep 'em coming!
You mean with all that ice on it. Yes I often use ice for its warming properties.
The main thing tempering the climate is the Gulf stream. I'm just 25km inland of Gothenburg, while Simeon is a bit further north and about in the middle of Sweden, east/west direction), we're narrow enough to not get any real inland climate. The two big lakes (Vänern and Vättern) that he's between the northern parts of are likely to temper the swings too, probably more than his local lake.
Its pissing me off
Matt Vliet: Supposed to have snow all week here in NY Greene County. Running out of firewood. Can't wait for spring! Yes, it's pissing me off as well.
Hot ass summer is otw but dam I love the SOUTH!
That looks efficient and no plastic, best part
I live in cold BC Canada, it's April 20th, lol we just received snow, I can so relate to the cold winter, however I do love snow, but im so anxious for spring budding season. Thanks for the great info, Happy gardening, and enjoy the spring :)
I can hardly believe it's been a year since I watched you build the cold frame, your plants are doing well considering the hard winter, I guess they were started off in the house.
Ha those close lines look just like ours here in Northern San Diego county 12:40 PM only 72 degrees or 22.2 C . Happy Trails
Wonderful video. My Dad and Pawpa always said to deep plant the tomatoes by taking the leaves off for about five inches. This way the root system grows stronger and the plants produce stronger stems to hold the fruits. So many people wonder why heavy winds can topple the roots out of the ground where I live in Arkansas USA. We had sixty mph winds and storms all night. I took the dog out to find neighbor's new plantings my back yard.
JAllanC12 , My parents were born in 1921. Dad taught my two brothers, and I followed along. There are so many small things he taught me that have still helped me in these ' modern' times! So very glad your tomatoes are flourishing for you!
JAllanC12 , by the way...depending on the variety of tomatoes you planted, even with the stronger plants..I still advise to cage or stake. Since you said your's took off, it is most possible the fruits will be much heavier than you are accustomed to.
Virginia Reid and everyone. We plant our tomatoes by stripping off all but the top 6" of growth and bury them horizontally not vertically like most do. It roots exceptionally because of being closer to the surface and widens the root base for stability. The top will grow normal and strong. We still cage and have had 20' tomatoe plants that grew 7' tall, grew back to the ground 7' and back up another 7'. It became a jungle of food that never ended.
Tips and tricks to all !!!
Always so enjoy joining you here on your beautiful homestead! Great info and it really helped to watch you do the soil blocks! May you also get some rest and enjoy your weekend! Thank you for sharing...smiles and blessings!
bubble pack for one of those layers of plastic would give you even more warmth and length of season.
That will cost him precious light which is already in short supply ;) To be effective, the space between the poly sheets should be inflated to 0.25" wc (62Pa) with a small blower
Love the drone view. I really like your gardening techniques will have to try them. Its storms here in Kansas tonight but snowing a blizzard west of us . So we may get more snow Sunday. So ready for spring to stay. God bless you all in this yrs crops and all you do for farm. God bless you and all your family.
Love what your doing 😊 our climate is similar on the east coast of Canada. Thanks
Absolutely love your aerial views with the drone! Such a beautiful land and lake. Also like your children's farm video for my grandchildren. Blessing from Ohio
you are a very good teacher.
Good idea. Most of societies troubles comes from taking people off the land. Decentralized food production makes us all stronger. I have a small business that gives me little time to grow my own but we do buy local organic produce to support the local community.
That little contraption you have is very neat
very nice green house ilike it
Wonderful job!
I lived in Sweden for some years and I love your country.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
I think that it's very good idea for great succes in the growing plants.
Best greetings from North West Italy.
Dario
today is April 19 in west coast of Oregon. A friend moved to take a new job in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He called back to us to tell us for them it is January 105. They are still in mid winter there.
Hope you have a great growing season.
Video is so beautiful from the very beginning, just like rotating earth 👌👌👌
This guy takes his hobby serious 👍
I really enjoyed the music and drone shots....
more great stuff Simeon .. spring won't be long, the grass is green now in Northern Skåne .. it's on it's way up to you :)
Been using these for years in England, its called A Cloche, French word. I bet your seedlings grow quicker than it took you to do the video, 😁😁
Wow how easy and great is that. Your good man! Even better than David the Good
I really like your videos they are from the heart
It's still winter here in Montana so we feel your pain. Love your vids!
I always learn something useful from you. And you have a great helper!
Wauw this is the way to do it!! Your so wise thank you!
Cool Beans!
Thank you so much for this and all your videos. Best channel on CZcams!
Amazing land! Your helper, the beautiful little girl is so cute! Oooh! your cold frame, I'm going to make one smaller than yours for my back yard! I love it all! Thank you for sharing!
The old soil block idea...I should have known...Maxwell Smart
So you get grass only in May. Wow. Here in central Portugal, it and the weeds never stop. In early February now, my polyhouse plants are being pricked out and potted for hardening off, and I will plant them into our sheet mulched and woodchip mulched plots in about two weeks. Long, cold, dark winters... I had enough of that in New England and then Britain. If I get only one life, let me live the rest in Portugal, with sun, abundance and wonderful people.
Sounds like you are the garden of Europe and they will need it when they learn that we are going into a cooling period. Global Warming is a hoax to generate a carbon take for a global government.
@@123Goldhunter11 Yeah... sure! It's a well orchestrated global conspiracy wherein literally 97% of climate scientists in the National Academy of Sciences have been corrupted by liberal politicians (climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/). Hillary Clinton and Al Gore are out there right now trying to kill the remaining 3% of the dissenters and bury them in the Arizona desert. Granted, all of the climate predictions these scientists made 30 years ago have proven to be inaccurate. The global climate is actually warming FASTER than previously predicted. There are now ice core samples dating back 2.7 million years which document numerous periods of warming and freezing. Data from these samples shows that CO2 did not exceed 300 ppm in the past 2.7 million years. Today it is above 400ppm. I hate liberal politics and the Kyoto Accord, but science is science! You flat-earthers that flunked 6th grade science are the ones with the political agenda. You are the very same people that denied that freon R-11, R-12, R-113, and R-114 was destroying ozone. But now there is physical proof that ozone is improving due to regulation. You deny that dumping industrial wastes into rivers and streams is harmful. You're the same characters that deny diesel particulates lodge in your lungs. You can bury you head in the sand all you want to suit your faith-based propaganda that a mere 8 BILLION humans can't possibly harm the earth because God is on our side. A freaking bug, the pine beetle, has destroyed more than 16 million of the 55 million hectares of forest in British Columbia! But I actually agree with you on one point, we could eventually enter a human assisted COOLING period sooner that would naturally occur. Warming and melting may eventually disturb ocean circulation and convection currents leading to an early ice age. You can keep rubbing sticks together and burning fossil fuels and enjoy your cave man existence. The rest of us who are a little brighter will develop nuclear, solar, geothermal, etc.
@@jasonjames4254 Lighten up Francis
Thank you.
great design for the little green house and nice video as well! Thanks!
Greetings from England. Love your cold frame and soil blocks. Might give both of those a try.
A cold frame has been used for as long as I can remember. The thing is the plants dont get ahead of the "season" , will be short and stocky and have a continuity between the cold frame and planting. I noticed the greenhouse plants are almost always too leggy
Thanks for the video , it explains another method for growing a garden from seeds thru planting.
It can be as simple as seeing an unexpected frost in the weather forecast and throwing some plastic - ANY plastic - over your babies out in the garden. Pound some stakes in the ground that stand higher than your babies, and throw some plastic or a big tarp over it for the night. Weight or stake the edges.
Looking back to autumn 2017, you had very long time green pasture. Till the end of November, maybe beginning of December. Comparing it with mild climate we have month or more earlier green grass, but due to lack of rain it stops grow in August or September. The same grass, only different harvest time. So looks nature adaptations.
Excellent content and presentation, thanks.
Hi from Canada
We in Australia have just come out of summer. So we are in what you call fall, we call it autumn. After which is winter. But my winter does not have snow. I am lucky i can garden all year round. My next garden get it the soil block maker.
Love the cold frame idea.
thank you , great share and update . Look forward to the progress and results :)
Cold and windy this morning, had a little pellet snow this morning enough to make the grass white, but t was all gone in an hour
Great cold frame! Time to drag the pasture!
Thank-you for sharing!
Thank-you!
What a wonderful video , thank you
I went thru the same dilemma . A greenhouse wastes a lot of heat, but it is nice for humans to work in. That is the only reason I built one. I put a few videos up. It was cheap, but real glass 20'x12'.
Great opening and closing of video, love the drone footage. That is a cool setup you have with the coldframe. Hope Spring is finally here for you and me in the States.
Hi, Good idea for nursery development. Thank you very much.
A lot of folks in my area make good money selling seedlings by doing what you're doing with that cold frame. Thanks, Simeon!!
A LeBlanc do they have to register with some govt entity and have a license to sell plants ?
Not to my knowledge Annie...mostly it's "mom & pop" type of growers, most of whom are well known to the locals and who get their plants year after year.
WOW...Great way to grow !!
great idea for a seedling house; I am going to use my extra concrete block to build the walls; maybe use screening over it when it gets too warm, to keep white moths out.
Wow, I really like that cell blocker.....that's it ....on to Amazon, see you next video.
Great tool thanks for sharing!!!
Best wishes
If i was younger and thinner...lol...still a great video thanks 4 sharing..
Awesomeness 😊
Good idea
Very nice set up 🌱🌱🤗🤗
Thank you for the Knowledge. May God bless you Even More than he already has !
Try mixing shredded newspaper into the mix. It doesn't work well for the smallest blocks, but it's very good in the larger ones.
Great video. Thanks for the share.
Great job! I want to do this on my barn!
Excellent
Красавец чел , спасибо за ролик !!!