Hi Everyone, today we're going to do a general tour of the greenhouse for the
summer
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greenhouse it hasn't been something I've done in quite a while and I'm usually
not a fan of doing them mainly because it's just sort of me rambling on about it so
I'll do it is as I mentioned each thing I'll try to add a link to another video
so if you want to see it more detail you can just click on the link and I'll pop
open another window for that. Just starting on the outside after a few
years you can see it a little weathering on here
couple of singles have fallen off. The polycarbonate is holding up really well
few spots here and there it's pretty much bulletproof the taped seams with
this leading edge tape holding up really well and I haven't had to replace any of it and
the stainless steel screws of course are doing quite well. So overall I'm really happy
with the exterior building
The solar set up still works well. I have three sets of panels like this.
It runs for about eight months a year off grid and then I have to start
supplementing with grid power during the winter. I've been working on my supply for this
winter takes a while to get it all slit, but it's looking good so far.
We will wander on inside the entrance I have a table set up with brochures and other things like to see when they
come to visit. The wood stove and the rocket mass heater, I'm going cover that in an update video at some
point in the future.
And then the rest of the greenhouse!
I'm still keeping about 200 koi in the tank and a few goldfish.
The windows have been holding out nicely, no leaks In the tank we still have the spray bar
helping to circulate the water, that's working very nicely, along with a few air stones
just as a backup air supply and of course the automatic fish feeder is on a
timer
The swirl filter is still working great it is still undersized for the system caching most
of the solids some still came out to the drain. And then any solids that are making
their way through are ending up in the new mineralisation tank. I've been very happy with this so far
water leaving it very clear. My hospital quarantine tank have a couple of fish in
here, a couple of ulcers on them now. They should survive, a good salt treatment and taking care of their wounds with some hydrogen
peroxide usually cleans them up. The strawberry towers along the fish tank and looking excellent they've
been done fruiting for quite a while, I get one here and there but these are
June bearing variety and they just came their energy for the next year I'm
missing my one tower they pulled out the other week as just lying over here still
very sad still trying to get my bottom cap put on there haven't had time to do
it
my smallest media bit in the middle of the greenhouse, I have a bunch of chives and here they just
keep going year after year and my pink lemon tree is doing quite well
much larger than it used to be. I'm letting some lettuce go to seed in here
in the spring of planted this banana now has two pups here another huge on coming
up the side and it's growing all the way up to the ceiling now I don't think I'm
gonna get a banana again this year is just gonna get to talk but it's still
pretty cool to watch it grow here. In my middle ring of media builds a whole
bunch of different things
cherry tomatoes here. My sage plant has been growing like crazy
has a fairly good sized woody trunk in here this is going on
three-plus years spent three and a half years now and I keep checking back over
winters great, same thing with this oregano this has been growing like crazy
and some very sad cucumbers. these things basically get burned out, I've been battling
some trips this year too
I have some strawberries also growing in the media, the do well in here,
my biggest complaint send out their runners and they set themselves up again just
makes a thicker more dense area keeping them in the towers helps to keep the
plant segregated in space it out better more cherry tomatoes growing and here it
is growing like a weed, It's hard to control them. The Bell siphons have been going
non-stop, you can see inside of these are some algae growing on the edges it
doesn't seem to affect it at all I really should put a cover on those just
keep it clean but for the most part we've been going nonstop
just her experimenting I decided just to throw a composting bucket here on my waste
is this is going on here and has a few holes drilled into the bottom, and I've finding
that the composting worms actually come up into the bed and have been feasting
in here so many of the juices and liquids go out to the bottom and the
worms come up so we'll see how that works out this year
always had really good luck trying the tomatoes in here is an Amish paste
variety very nicely nice big tomatoes out of a lot of flavor. I tie these up onto
this crossed cabling goes from one end to the other of the greenhouse and helps
provide some shade for the plants that are growing underneath these. I have one very sad
looking sweet potato growing here had a rough start you can see the difficiency
in the leaves and I got that corrected earlier this year
leaves are looking much better now hiding in here is my very said pineapple
plant basically gets shaded out by everything else still barely alive once
again the only soil we have in the greenhouse are amaryllis plants. sometime I'll do a
video just one these. basically I'm dumping the water into these for their
nutrient right into the soil
will keep growing nasturtiums, basically we're growing out of control I have to
keep hacking them back.
more cherry tomatoes and then our Monster rosemary this is also original
to the greenhouse we just keep hacking huge sections of a back you can see the
size of the base of if here very well established very happy growing in here
In this outer media bad I have some thyme here. this mess in here is a mixture of
cucumber and tomato have been very negligent with taking out the dead
leaves they're doing quite well in here regardless of me. Plenty of tomatoes
coming in and then these are also trellised up above growing along the cabling
These plants are just about burned out the thrips have not helped them out at all
trying to keep them under control this year these plants will come out pretty
soon
The air pump has been going strong, I haven't had any problems. I runs along the perimeter
I did have some cabbage growing in here and some kale. Even though I had some
cabbage worms I am I just couldn't keep up with it even using diabolique control
so I ripped them all out and hopefully I can break that breeding cycle of those
caterpillars. It's been really bad this year. The lettuce in the deep water culture rafts does ok
during summer doesn't like the heat so they get a little bit leggy start to
both soon so we pick them while they are fairly young still
The raft here has all the younger ones in there at a tighter population and they get transplanted
into a wider spaced raft.
I have the seedlings growing in the gravel wicking beds. It works extremely well and I have some starters
here so if an alternating back and forth between two different beds. This year I
also have some strawberries growing in the deep water culture these have done
extremely well better than the media builds other towers . They have these huge crowns on them.
And they're doing fantastic. I still rather grow them in the towers just to keep them up out of the water they do really well on the
raft bed also. once again I'm planting some basil in deep water culture one raft has
them in the two-inch GrowGrips. They get a little tall form and pull them out
really designed for dealing with lettuce but the one inch ones are able to hold
them very well that's been doing quite nicely
other than some iron deficiency already cut these ones and I'll cut them again before
it starts getting too cold once the water temperature gets into the low
sixties he things just die off really fast.
that's about it for our summer tour. I wanted to thank you for watching and a special
thanks to all my Patreon subscribers and supporters.
if you want to subscribe to Patreon,I'll leave a link down below and if you're
looking for a sneak-peek of where our greenhouse is going to go beyond this
front field. We'll get this site cleared up and ready at some point in the future
takes a while to get everything done again thanks for watching