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Extend Your Growing Season With A Climate Controlled Garden

Albert Mondor

Although 16 of the last 17 years are considered to have been the warmest since climate data was made available, the fact remains that winters in Canada and the northern United States are harsh.

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Glow From Greenhouses Lighting Up Night Skies

While driving home late one night a few weeks ago, I noticed an eerie, yellow-orange glow in the sky. From far, I thought something had caught fire, but as I drove closer, I realized it wasn’t that at all. Rays of light were coming from tomatoes. Greenhouse Glow Well, not the tomatoes themselves, but rather,…
February 1, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

How to Build a Greenhouse: DIY Tips

Getting your plants going earlier, gardening longer, and growing food in winter has lots of people interested in how to build a greenhouse. Especially after a little window shopping reveals that even the least expensive greenhouse kit is pricey. Which means… it’s DIY time, but if you’re going to do this, you’ll surely want to…
May 15, 2017
Callie

5 Buggy Grow Room Mistakes

What makes a person a master gardener? One of the greatest attributes of a master is avoiding garden, greenhouse, or grow room mistakes.
November 12, 2016
Judd Stone

The Earthship: Grounded Living

Coming from the north, east or west it seems like a little hill grown over by grass. Approaching the Earthship from the south, one finds a crystal-like greenhouse instead. Surprising, but with a moment’s thought, you realize that the windows are facing south for a good reason. They are directed toward the most sunlight, toward where the sun gives life – in…
January 4, 2016
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Indoor Garden Efficiency

Waste is a bad word in the twenty-first century. We need to focus on efficiency – not just in the vehicle we drive or appliances and electronics we buy, but in everything we use and do.
December 7, 2015
Jeroen Kahteem