Polycarbonate greenhouse with vents and growing tomatoes in it (varieties that I recommend)
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IRISH LIQUOR AND WATEMERELONS AT THE COTTAGE POLYCARBONATE GREENHOUSE
Polycarbonate greenhouse. She now has many supporters, but there are also opponents. The story of the reader, perhaps, will help to make a choice to those who have not yet made it. After all, a greenhouse is not a greenhouse, it is built thoroughly, for years, and it also requires serious costs.
Since our old, old film greenhouse had already begun to sway from the wind, it urgently needed a replacement. The choice fell on a polycarbonate greenhouse. I doubted my choice for a long time, because I had read various fears about the fact that in such greenhouses everything burns out from the heat, and condensate forms, and water drips on tomatoes, which causes them to fall ill with phytophthora early, and the greenhouses themselves often “fold "in the winter, unable to withstand the thickness of the snow cover ... Therefore, I decided for myself: I need a solid, reliable construction and, of course, with vents.
I looked at what kind of greenhouses the neighbors had: first they installed one small arched one, and after a couple of years the same second one, both without side windows and in both in the center, supports were placed for the winter. This option didn't work for me. In addition, I terribly wanted a greenhouse "house". In the end, after spending a lot of time, I finally found one and went to see it live. What can I say... To put it mildly, I was very disappointed with this flimsy house of cards.
At the beginning of September 2016, they brought me to the site and assembled a polycarbonate greenhouse in a few hours, about which the manufacturer claims the following: made of galvanized pipe, the service life is at least 15 years. Well, as they say, wait and see.
Now in my greenhouse measuring 6x45 m there are six windows: four on the sides and two in the doors. On the two side windows there are automatic ventilation devices with an opening range of XNUMX cm, the other two are constantly open in the summer. Condensation under the roof sometimes appears, but the droplets of moisture are so small that they evaporate instantly, there’s not even a drop to speak of! Well, the number of vents contributes to active ventilation.
A small digression: in the greenhouse I grow tomatoes, peppers and several plants of long-fruited cucumbers Emerald Stream F1, and this year wonderful watermelons have grown, and no one bothered to grow. In autumn, after harvesting, I sow the beds in the greenhouse with a mixture of mustard, rapeseed, radish, oats - whatever is at hand.
I will continue. Since the matter was approaching winter, the question arose: how to leave the greenhouse, and specifically, should the doors in it be left closed for the winter or, conversely, open? If closed, then in winter during sunny days, the temperature in the greenhouse will rise so much that the snow on the roof will begin to melt and freeze at night, i.e. he will no longer be able to move off the roof, he will only accumulate with all the ensuing consequences ... With the doors open, there is a chance that at least some snow will sweep into the greenhouse.
On the other hand, if the doors are still left open, then in winter, with a gusty wind, windage will occur, and the greenhouse can simply fly away. Polycarbonate will definitely be damaged.
I asked this question to specialists in the assembly of greenhouses, and on various forums on the Internet. Opinions were divided. Therefore, I listened to everyone and did it in my own way: I leave the doors closed, but I remove (permanently) the polycarbonate above the doors under the very top on both sides of the greenhouse (see photo).
By the way
Variety Irish liqueur is rapidly gaining popularity! Its fruits contain a lot of sugar, so they are incomparably tasty and sweet. They also look attractive, never crack and are stored for a long time. The only negative is that they cannot be grown in open ground, even in the south. But the yield of the variety is simply magnificent! Bushes are tall and require support. Landing: no more than three bushes per 1 square. m.
The winter of 2017 turned out to be snowy, and I was very worried about the strength of the structure. With great difficulty, she persuaded her household members to take me to check on her condition. And to go far, more than 100 km, and the roads were covered with snow ... In general, they arrived, cleared the path to get to the house and to the greenhouse, cleaned the snow from its roof and around it, threw it inside the greenhouse, closed the doors and left. All right, the excitement was in vain.
The neighbors, whom I mentioned above, came in the spring to see how my windows were made, how the ventilation machine works, how it all looks in general, and left in deep thought: how could they do the same in their greenhouses? Or maybe it's time to replace them with new ones? ..
Reference by topic: Additional windows for polycarbonate greenhouses with their own hands
TOMATO VARIETIES FOR GREENHOUSES
Briefly about the varieties of tomatoes, which are especially distinguished by their taste.
Your Majesty is a mid-season tall (1,1-1,9 m) variety with large yellow fruits, 350-500 g (can reach a weight of up to 1 kg), beautiful heart-shaped, fleshy, with a small amount of seeds. The pulp is juicy, unusually tasty, with fruity notes. But in my conditions, the variety is not very productive.
Irish liquor mid-early variety 1,5 m high, up to 5 fruits in a brush, when mature they have a green-golden color, weight 300-600 g. The main feature is incredibly tasty and sweet pulp that melts in your mouth!
1884 is a variety with an interesting history. There is such a legend: in 1884, a flood occurred in the United States in the state of Virginia. A local farmer saw a floating tomato bush with impressive fruits in a stream from nowhere. The farmer was not at a loss, fished this bush out of the water and collected seeds from the fruits. In memory of the flood and the date of that incident, he named the variety of tomatoes from the collected seeds "1884". The variety is mid-season, high-yielding, 1,5-1,8 m high, the fruits are very tasty, juicy, fragrant, with melting pulp, dark pink in color.
For seaming and not only the following varieties are good.
Moscow creamy delicacy F1 - light yellow, beautiful, even-sized cream.
Violet pride of Wessel - elongated cream with a "beak" of dark purple color and rich taste.
Advice F1, Grozdeva, etc. - they are all very productive.
Last season, two exotics were planted for testing: Banana and Michael Pollan - both with green streaks, but with different fruit shapes, which turn yellow as they ripen, but the streaks remain. They look good in seams, fruitful (especially Michael Pollan), taste ordinary.
Here are some of the peppers I liked.
Gourmet - juicy, sweet, fragrant, orange.
Spanish burgundy, like white (pictured), is grown from seeds taken from store-bought fruits. He comes from Spain, that's why I call him that. Dark maroon color, rich sweet taste, surpassed even its parent in fruit quality!
Thick-walled varieties are also good - Cup (red) and Parnassus (yellow). In general, there are a great many varieties and hybrids of tomatoes and peppers, and you can talk about them endlessly.
But it is especially interesting to test new items on your site. This process is incredibly exciting!
See also: Tomato varieties: choosing tasty, sustainable, for soil and greenhouses
TOMATOES IN THE GREENHOUSE - THE nuances of care ON VIDEO
© Author: Svetlana Leonidovna Senkevich
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