When it comes to growing tomatoes, the options are numerous. One of the simplest and most productive methods is Dutch Bucket Hydroponics. The water usage is …
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Question by steph: what can you grow in a greenhouse?
i want a green house to grow tomatoes, but is ther anything else that i can grow?
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Answer by erndog1001
The point of a greenhouse is to control the environment.So you can grow virtually anything in one.
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research Aerated Compost Tea
So should definitely be trying to make compost tea out of something like a mixture of vermiculture and extra added bonemeal. I used to be the same way about my hydroponic tomatoes, but eventually I build some little 5 gallon bucket compost tea digestors, and made simple compost tea, and let me tell you…My Tomato plants exploded! I had a few strung up to over 20 feet!
Thanks for sharing the videos.
Cool, thanks.
I personally don’t recommend using any type of manure tea for hydroponics. The nutrient content varies quite a bit, and it’s too easy to introduce bad bacteria into the system.
sorry, i meant to say, is it possible to make compost tea from a mixture of cow, chicken and horse manure, then use it for hydroponics? or is it possible to use the same tea, let’s say, mixed in a big tank and create drip irrigation (such as in a green house, such as tomato greenhouse)?
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Not in a hydroponic setup. The manures should be used in the soil.
I’m not sure about using any type of tea. I’m more comfortable with a regular hydro fertilizer. I get asked about it a lot, so maybe someone out there will decide to try it. Thanks.
cant you use a mixture of cow, chicken, horse manure and have same results? is this possible
Love the vids! Have you considered running a highly filtered worm tea mix through your hydro pump circuit along with nutrient mix? Not soluble enough perhaps? KUTGW!!
I would skip the MG and wait for the Master Blend. I didn’t have much success with MG.
Thank u
I bought the MG Tomato food 18-18-21 from Home depot. Per 5 gallon bucket, approximately how much calcium nitrate, epsom salt, and fertilizer should i mix together? (In milligrams)
(Just ordered the Master Blend from Morgan County feed as well)
Yes, I use bailing twine tied to the purlins. The stems are secured with trellis clips.
Whats holding your tomatoes up? Is there a string their growing up I cant really tell by the video
I tried it with lettuce and it worked great. I have some cucumber seedlings going right now. Once they get big enough, I’ll try it on them too.
i like to grow different vegetables and hydro gardens sells
10 8 22 not the best for one or an other but good all around
so I can only use one nutrient for most veges
did you every try this and what do you think
I have plenty of ground for conventional gardening. So there hasn’t been a need for doing hydro outside. I’ve made videos of this stuff here and there. With almost 200 videos in the last 2 1/2 years, it’s hard for me to remember what is in each one.
Is there any special reason why you haven’t tried it outside? How many branches from the ground level did you remove? Did you find it produced as prolifically as your tomatoes…? How high up did the cukes produce? Did you video it Bro?
There are too many variables for me to try and answer those questions. I’ve never grown anything on that level, so it would all be guessing on my part.
I would like to produce 15,000kg per month, just enough tomatoes for my market. How many plants do you think i would need, and how long is the fruiting period? Would saw dust be good material to stamp around the plant? Please help. Thanks
This is very interesting. I am interesting in commercial farming of fruiting veggies, but im not able to do it because i have no piece of land to grow the veggies. Hydroponics might be just what i need.
I think hydroponics is a great alternative. But it’s darn near impossible to beat what can be grown in natural conditions. Nature truly does it best.
I really appreciate the way you bluntly say the food grown in nutritious healthy soil will be more nutritious than hydro.subbed up
well because i live in canada and its legal to grow. ihave a beautyful garden of brightgreenandsome light ornge cannibus plants. or marijunana as some call
Tomato plants will grow easily in a greenhouse as long as enough light gets in. You can self pollinate the flowers with a small artists paintbrush as the bees might not be able to get into the greenhouse.
If your greenhouse is heated on frosty nights you can grow anything tropical like miniature coffee bushes, orchids, dwarf bananas, peppers, eggplant, mini watermelons,and just about anything.
Even in an unheated greenhouse, you can grow just about any vegetable in season away from harmful insects and weather extremes. remember you may need to have some shade cloth or whitewash over the top to stop the greenhouse getting too hot during the hottest days of summer. Should have ventilation so you can open it up and prevent overheating. Also, tomatos will rot if the inside gets too hot and humid.
We have a greenhouse we use to extend the growing season of tomato, capsicum, cucumbers, eggplant, basil, chillies, etc. And we grow dwarf bananas in large tubs and move them from outdoors into the greenhouse during the winter frosts, as well as tamarillos, a pineapple, ginger, and a guava
Any plants can be grown in a greenhouse, but their are some species that needs full sunlight to maximize it’s growth
The first thing that must be understood is, “What sort of greenhouse are you planning to maintain?”
A cool greenhouse is more useful than I originally thought. The temperature is generally between 55 and 65 degrees, and I have had phenomenal success keeping the temp down there and still raising quantities of annuals, as well as holding plants, particularly Primula, out of the wind and rain to be in optimum condition to show. Also, there are many exotics, such as Epiphyllum, which benefit from a cooler temp than they would receive in the home for a nice rest and greatly improved performance the following year. And there are marginally hardy shrubs and vines, such as the Angel’s trumpets and Jasmines, which you can grow in pots for the patio, etc., and then winter over in the safety of the cool greenhouse.
A slightly warmer greenhouse, even a few degrees, really brings on the annuals. Many exotics do well in these conditions. I always started out my annuals at around 68 degrees in mid February for the slow growers, and as the year progressed the heater came on less and less until by mid to end of March it didn’t really come on at all except maybe for a bit at night. Some seeds did not get sown until early April, because they were such fast and eager growers.
A hot greenhouse is for the dedicated specialist, usually those orchid fanatics.
Another type of greenhouse that I will mention is what is known as a cold or alpine greenhouse. These growers are devoted to fussy little plants that absolutely will not tolerate excessive winter wet either on their foliage or soil. Often these plants also are used for show and so must look utterly perfect. Cushion alpines are exacting plants of heavenly success and crushing defeat.
Whatever the type of use to which you put your greenhouse, the plant that thrives under these conditions will also thrive here. In the conditions under which you would grow tomatoes, you may go hog wild in the annual-flower section of the seed catalog, for example.
Best of luck. I am most envious of your greenhouse.