Keith, it is good idea about solar panels. But do you have enough room for the storage batteries?

Thanks Barb . Yes the weather sucks mainly the overnight lows. They are calling for -2 C on Sunday night. All the plants I had in the house are temporarily in the greenhouse till the weather improves. I have to keep covering up the musa basjoo and it does not like that.

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Also Igor I would build a small covered well ventilated battery storage behind greenhouse and run short cables thru wall to inverter.

Keith,

That big window is wonderful 😀
Perfect spot for those shelves, and good timing for your seedlings getting more light.

You've got more room in there 😆 😆
Nice to have the house empty, I bet.

Tell your brother to take photos of you insulating the walls around the plants.
😆 😆 :laughing3:

Yeah...Sunday night. 👿
Barb

Hello update on greenhouse. We got the siding all done and painted. Trim is up. My brother got the soffit done on both sides today and started on the the front. This is great cause no bugs can get in now. I also got a new firepit cause old one rusted out at bottom.

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Great work that you and your brother did, Keith.
Looks perfect.

Nice firepit too... 😀

Barb

Hello. Started to bring plants into greenhouse at end of September. Got alot of seedlings started over summer. I am also trying a vertical hydroponic system in greenhouse, should be up and running within a week. This is my first attempt at hydroponics. The pvc system will be mainly for lettuce, herbs, greens. Will also do 5 gallon bucket systems for tomato, cuke and pepper. Brought 3 types of banana plants in for winter , have not had much luck overwintering my musa basjoo plants in the house, maybe the greenhouse will do better. I will be digging up my other tropicals that I am not leaving in the ground this week.

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Fun hauling everything inside and arranging it, isn't it Keith?
You sure did start a lot of stuff this year.

Fall sure is off to a fast/cool start for us.
Like a curtain dropping.

The hydroponics will help with humidity levels in there too.

Pea gravel floor is a great idea.

Barb

Update Dec 06, 2013: It is cold outside down to -17 C tonight which is way below normal. Although most of North America is well below normal. It is nice to go into greenhouse where it is warm.I keep the greenhouse around 19C, I had trouble keeping humidity levels in check. I had humidity in the 70's so I increased temperature from 16C to 19C which dropped it into the 60's. I then shut of the hydroponics till march except for the tomato 5gal bucket. With the cooler temperatures the humidity is in the 50's which is where I would like to keep it. I found germinating seeds in the greenhouse extremely easy in July and August when temperatures where around 40C in greenhouse. I had tried germinating seeds in the middle of winter, around the first of Jan ( when we are all bored) I put them in ziploc bags and put them in a warm spot above fridge. Then you wait weeks and months with little results. In the greenhouse I had lots of palm, cactus, agave, yucca and banana sprout within a week or sometimes less at temp. around 40C. Also heat pad and ziploc bag worked very well as well. Here are a few photos.
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Nice set up Keith, and you did a lot to finish the inside.
Yes, germinating plants works so much better when it's really warm...I always germinated stuff beside the woodstove in the basement.

Good work on germinating the palms and agaves. 😀
Exciting to have citrus, well done.

Our lack of sunshine isn't affecting your plants obviously, so you've got the lighting close to perfect.
Tomatoes always get tall, leggy, spindly grown indoors.
I had a tomato plant 6 feet tall when I tried it 😆 stem wasn't much larger than spaghetti.

Thanks for pics.
Stay warm
Barb

The sight of those Sabal minor seedlings all warm and happy makes me feel good! Thanks for sharing the update.

Can anyone tell me variety of cordyline terminalas this one

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I got some of the plants out of the greenhouse.

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The 5 gallon bucket hydroponics:

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Hi Keith,
Not sure, but maybe it's Red Sister: https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1525&bih=668&q=cordyline+terminalis+red+sister&oq=Cordyline+terminal&gs_l=img.1.1.0l7j0i24l3.1188.3368.0.5781.18.12.0.6.6.0.136.1169.8j4.12.0....0...1ac.1.42.img..0.18.1203.u15_LTVN3fg
It's a beauty.

Nice to get everything outside.
Bet that was fun...
Stuff looks good.

Barb

Thats really nice ....

From the outside it looks like to little glass to be a greenhouse
but from the inside it looks more like a greenhouse than a house....

I would love to live in a larger version of your set up as my main house...
maybe wouldn't even need to go outside again 😉

Love the green house! 8)