Growing in greenhouse to survive coming ice age

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I will be hunting soon. We have our game camera out. Deer are moving into the area now.

There will be no ice age this century. Or you would have to live in the North pole or South pole.

Ya you are probably right

do you live in an icy/windy area now?

i have seen the green house next to me destroyed pretty much on a yearly basis. i have looked at farm real estate, and the first thing that goes when the owner leaves for a short while is the green house. you might want to keep this in mind because if we are talking the end of the world, replacement parts won't be handy.

however, do read the book "solviva". great inspiration there. of course, i think after she stopped taking care of it, her greenhouse got wrecked too.

who cares about the end of the world? maybe do it because you like the idea.

but fyi...green houses are, in general, delicate.

idea: you can prolong the season on both ends with a cold frame. just need to water that sucker daily.

What do you me it isn't pretty.....looks great to me....we have 5 greenhouses on the property here in various places....can't do much better imho

it turned out pretty good. waiting for the wind test

We live in central Texas. Not too much ice.

They said hi back to you

Cold front coming through today. 20 mph wind test.

They used to say you could fix/build anything with duct tape. I would also add pvc pipe and old pallets to that list. LOL! Looks like a great and inexpensive project that even a beginner could do.

This is a great thread!

My AP system has given me fits due to hard water. Soon, I will be getting a reverse osmosis filter and use it in the greenhouse and to replenish the AP water which will be a gradual, but necessary endeavor. Better for both the fish and the food.

The problem I have with AP is that things generally grow much better in media beds, but the media is so dang expensive. I'll be doing more than half lava rocks topped with expanded clay in the future.

LED grow lights are really getting inexpensive now. And you can put them on a closet rail track for very little expense. This is what we are doing for our greenhouse now. The plastic isn't lasting long enough so we are putting metal on the greenhouse and going to have a little daylight with translucent panels and the led lights.



All this for veggies. But when it's cold and icy outside and you go into the balmy greenhouse, it's a beautiful thing. And the food production is also beautiful!

I can't wait to dig our small pond. You are right, the green house feels great inside.

Water is my big issue.
Temp has to be 70 or yeast cant grow.
Low slope to prevent wind but then ice load will get it.pyramid is best tradeoff.thus a-frames coming from the swiss.
Clear fiberglass panels.ice age will kill off most,so thats not the worry,hail is.
Thats why antarctica has best way.ice covered geo thermal.
But thermal has issue of poisonous gasses.

survive an ice age, lol

A poly green house will work for a season longer if agricultural poly is used some has reinforced with nylon threads you can walk on it. also for cold house use two layers inside and outside creates a insulation pocket between the layers. I would have made the sides to roll up to allow much more air on a warm day, add a fan to keep air moving or mold, powdery mildew will set in humidity must be kept below 60%. in spring add humidifier if low humidity of 45% or less you will get spider mites and other pests.

i like how that raney homestead rescue lunatic always adds a thermal battery to any greenhouse they fudge up.


Man that guy looks like he is about to kill someone with every new project he starts, cutting down hundreds of trees by himself and shit. There is always a secret mountain lion hunting the poor stupid homesteaders...who magically have never shot a gun ever and all the water is deadly poisoned, and it is just a great show

Excellent thread...

We are all thinking of climate change and how we can grow food in a different climate...

The Scenarios that might happen are:

1) Polar axis shift. This would change climate if true North was not at the pole. Growing seasons would change and be prepared by having a variety of seeds that grow in different climates....

2) Nuclear Winter. How about no Sun for years until all the dust settles out from the upper atmosphere. The climate would literally go wild. IMO, the only way to grow food would be in a cave. Possibly mushrooms...

3) Yellowstone Super Eruption. Many weeks of darkness and rain. The whole wheat belt would be devastated. A greenhouse might work, but the wind and hail from storms would tear it apart. I would think that plants like potatoes would be one of the hardiest to survive...

Yes, I used the agricultural poly. We just have bad luck with it I guess. We get about 10 months out of it, and that just isn't efficient enough. At least not for us. But at this point, with the way things are, we definitely do not want to give up the greenhouse, so we're going outside the box to make it workable.

Something that I read about, but don't have personal experience with, is using about 1" of sand on top of soil to get rid of fungus gnats which are a plague for me in the early spring. We have raised beds of composted manure in our greenhouse and an AP system. The sand won't cut it in the AP, but in the beds, it shouldn't be an issue.

Some people have no issues when entering the controlled environment growing realm. That isn't me. I've had every problem one can think of. A lot of them stem from PH issues, and getting that in order is a major help. So I want to encourage people to be diligent about checking their ph.

Another thing, keep in mind growing herbs that will curtail heavy metals, like lemon grass and cilantro, for instance.

I'm trying my hand at growing winter crops too ..carrots, beets, collards, for the first time...I live in northeast Alabama so I may succeed...I moved here from Ohio to survive What's coming....one of my goals is a greenhouse and plenty of seed...but you'd best make sure you also have plenty of ammo to guard your crops...people will be pouring out of the cities in search of food

Yes we have lots of wind here as well.

Its best to build it in a sturdy manner, and if you use plastic, plan on replacing each one with glass.

Or, yurt/dome style, or half in the ground, partial basement style.

Aquaponic I am on my third round of tilapia, this batch i started memorial day 100 fingerlings actually they were fry over a year ago, they are two + pounds now have eaten a few, my dogs have eaten many more, Don't know what happened to a lot of them at last count 35, only one female I put it alone with 1 male he killed her. So i need to buy a breading colony.
Fifth build i think, System is one ibc tote 300 gallons and a old in ground spa 600 gallons for a sump and a 30 gallon trash can with 100 liters of bio balls, one 1/6th hp sub pump on a timer for circulation from sump to fish tank then gravity back to sump. Beds and media, hydro trays are best,
I use 3 each 2x4 trays with hydroton one one pump and a cycle timer on 10 minutes every two hours one tray had mints 4 different plants, tray 2 had green onion chives, garlic chives, tray 3 had leeks and onions, had pump failure killed them pumps last apx. 1 year woops. The mint worked very good as a bio filter the root mass was a solid 2x4 ft 6-8 inch deep like a giant filter pad, gotta replant this soon. I also have a 3x6 foot hydro tray shallow like 5-6 inches with hydroton with 5 or 6 kinds of onions red, yellow, walla wallas does very good. If you buy a bunch or pot full of baby onions at the nursery put them in the tray keep bunched they live but not grow until you give them space, so when i harvest a few just pull a few out of the bunch and stick them in empty space done.

Ck into the reinforced at American Horticultural supply in CA one in oxnard and one up north by napa. I tore my hillbilly green house down it was 24x24 siding sheets sideways for walls 4 foot raised apx a foot screened in bottom, shade cloth top and or poly. Plan on building a real green house one day. Twice as big.

Ya I know

Everyone should have a Hemp filled greenhouse for food security.

The Thread of the Century

Hours posting on GLP will Not Save Your Life in the Mini Ice Age..take responsibility or die.

that's how important food is

what is money? a way to buy food
what is silver? a way to barter for food
what is bitcoin? something you wish you hadn't bought when the power stops and you need food

Food first, money second.

learning and helping to sprout seedlings indoors. Florescent lights give off heat as well as light and are kinder to my eyes.


this is a thread to treasure.

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