Thank you Alex, Growing them exactly as you stated. Happy Holidays!

Great work and congratulations! I have a full time job too and at this time of the year have been known to use a headtorch to sow or pot up in the greenhouse after work. Better still, surprise the slugs 😄

Absolutely brilliant Alex

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They do sell replacement covers on Amazon.

Thank you! Wonderful video 🌷

Thanks. You just saved me a lot of faffing around. Shall try my coffee grounds during the dry for a while as I already have them.

Best one yet. I brought in slugs accidentally from my compost. And they're going mad!

I attached one of those magnetic fly screens that you normally put on your back door to the inside of the door using Velcro so I could have the door open in summer without too many bugs getting in. Along with cutting some holes for temp controlled fans and tying the external ropes to a car battery it just about survived 9 months but the plastic around the door zips its wrecked and basically non-repairable. Mine is a completely transparent one though not the green type with the mesh.

Thanks for this video it helped me a lot to make my science project a success you are so underrated😢 you deserve alot more subscribers, but theres +1 sub 😅

We have built our own greenhouse! We use cow panels and 3ml plastic We having real good luck with it! This is our second one we build! We have heat for winter and grow lights, and water!

To keep the cover and house from blowing away, I secured a blue tarp on the fence and then I brought it over the top of the greenhouse. Then I secured the blue tarp with twine and tied it to a very large flower pot that is probably 50 pounds with dirt and ferns in it nothing’s gonna fly away.

copper doesn’t work?????

For longer life of the plastic 303 Protection spray for plastic, vinyl, etc helps protect it from extreme temp changes, rain, snow & sun.

Thanks for the video. I’m in Australia we have a problem with fruit flies destroying tomatoes. In summer I made an exclusion cover out of fly screen mesh. After reading the tip about covering cabbages etc I will use it to exclude cabbage moth. Excellent.

I bought an oversized garden furniture cover to wrap it. Half of it wrapped underneath the green house and peg every corners to the ground. The weight of the frame and stuff I put on the floor on top the cover inside the greenhouse also helps. Move the pegs in the morning so the plants can have some sunlight but it depends on the direction of the sun. I can’t remove one of the houses during windy days anyway because I use it as a shelter for the stray cats.

Hi Alex, have you tried Ollas?

What's your recommendations in a hurricane prone area?

Great test. Informative helpful and interesting throughout!!

These are great tips! I'm new to greenhouse gardening, so this is helpful. :)

I've bought this exact one twice in 10 years. Is it perfect? Not at all? Is it cheap? Very. Will it protect your plants in winter? Yes, to an extent. I put mine up in November, and take it down in May. Mine spends the winter under a covered patio, against a wall, on a south-facing porch. There, the wind can't get to it much, and in north Texas, our winter storms come from the north, so it's an extremely sheltered spot. I've had hibiscus plants survive inside of it. My husband and I weight it down with very heavy flat cement tiles, and we add additional cross-ties on the frame. We throw a blanket over the top when the snow and ice hits us. During the absolutely shattering winter of 2020, all of the plants on the outside-facing wall of the greenhouse froze, since we had no electricity for a few days. My family spent time camping out around the living room fireplace wearing all of our warm clothes and blankets, and I was surprised to find that the greenhouse plants that were against the house wall survived. (I couldn't believe it.) Downside: Aside from the flimsiness, when you take this apart in spring, you'll pour rusty water out of some of the rods. Eventually, they'll rust through completely. When you go to assemble it, it's helpful to use a rubber mallet to get everything together in good, squared-up form. When you go to dis-assemble it, it can be really, really tough to get the rods out of the connectors. The plastic connectors can crack or break completely. The little tie-downs and pathetic coat-hanger hooks they give you are utterly useless, so you'll need to make other arrangements. The zipper can break pretty easily, so I've always made sure my cover is really well-aligned, and to use the zip very carefully. Do I feel that I get my money's worth? Well, they have been costing me about $70 or $80, they've each lasted about 5 years (admittedly, in a VERY sheltered spot), so yeah, I reckon I do. That said, I'm looking to do better this year.

Is there any way I can ATTRACT slugs?

Thank you so much. I’m 65 and have always used sprinklers, but just bought my first 2 - 75ft soakers to reach a new bed containing new small bushes and small trees. The bed is about 130ft long, starting at about 1 ft and slowly enlarging to about 4ft wide. Should be easy. This bed is just out of range of my sprinkler for my small grass area and surrounding trees. You made me feel much better about the project. Thanks, and good luck with your other side of the garden. ~ Jerry

Great video Alex! Really sad about the dog attack and the loss of a beautiful chicken 🐔 😢 Across the pond, we enjoy ever lasting chard and arugula. Tomatoes doing okay but the yield is down due to poor pollination. Bees are scarce; we are far from any beehives. Bees have been suffering from climate change and pesticides 😢 The fig tree though, is a monster and dumping bags and bags of super sweet huge black Turkish figs!

What I recomend: brushes to clean the dirt from tools and shoes. Knife for harvesting, also decapitating slugs.

Good to see you back Alex. Sorry to hear about the dog attack, hopefully you are feeling much better now.

Excellent video Alex. You've inspired me to try and grown my own fruit and vegetables, so thank you. I'm sorry for your loss and the awful dog attack. I hope you're doing better now. Take care mate

If you want a list of seeds to sow and things to do in the garden now, watch this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oai2YouffrmAd5Y. Today's video was filmed early in August but I got really really ill from that trip to the supermarket to buy that bag of rocket so this one is a little late... Some of the seed recommendations might be less useful but my cough is too bad to re-film it. Sorry!

Missing your videos Alex!

Good improvements to the greenhouse, I think they are really required if you're going to use one of these. The main issues for me were airflow and keeping the thing from blowing away. You also have to be aware of temperature fluctuations, it can actually get colder inside a greenhouse at night than outside and this can happen even in a more expensive glass greenhouse or polytunnel.

Good experiment! I put bark chippings at the base of my tomato plants this year and also noticed the ground seemed stayed moist longer than with just compost. I wonder how the different mulches affect the temperature of the soil too, I've heard bark chippings can make the ground slower to warm up earlier in the season which may be an issue for some plants.

How does this behave in winter? I live in central europe where temp gets around -20 degrees celsisus? Is it possible to mantain at least 6 degress celsisus inside? Thank you

That was such a interesting and informative video. I will be using the grass on my allotment where we have no access to water and I really struggle to get water there. Thanks Alex brilliant experiment.

Thank you for the informative video! It is like a scientific experiment. Let's try in the next year in my garden,

Great experiment, good to know.

The problem I have with using any kind of mulch is that I like for my seeds to sprout naturally. I prefer no mulch in my containers. It allows me to re seed and also to notice any issues with the soil.

This is actually a really good video

I use grass clippings to mulch my 30litre potato containers. best free water retention material there is. Was surprised at how ineffective home made compost was.

i was thinking about buying one of this BUT after watching this, i would say NO . I am in Northern Ireland and it would last one day

is that because hemp mulch has less big pores compared to barks/chips? so water is not easily loose through small pores?

They were good tips. Thank you.

Interesting findings! I always felt it odd that it seemed when after applying bare compost to pots it would drain out faster, glad to see there’s further evidence to that!

Very useful experiments! I'll definitely give perlite a try. I had some success surrounding plants with comfrey leaves, the slugs and snails seemed to prefer eating them over the plants.

Great video! Can you clarify what the hemp is? Is it seed or the hull? Thank yoU!

Hello, dear grower, I also grow microgreens, but with substrate, (Carolina Soil, earthworm humus, vermiculite and perlite, etc., together with coconut fiber, I mix everything, I don't use coconut fiber alone, because in my country (Brazil), people who use them, use them in hydroponics, and add nutrients to the water. Do you add macro and micro nutrients to the water because it is an inert substrate, I don't know how it works, I would be grateful if you could help me? .

I’ll have to try these out for my fruit trees! Thank you!

I use a mixture of grass clippings and leaves which I shred with my weed whacker in a large bucket, works great

Would love to use soakers but they are stupidly expensive, so will have to wait a while..

Very entertaining! 😂

that took me by surprise! I wasn't expecting grass clippings to do such good job