Greenhouses - Dressing in layers

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<<just read a tidbit on greenhouses by Elliot Coleman in the latest Mother

Earth News.

 

I don't have .

 

<<He says that -- just like when you go outdoors to work and dress in layers

 

That's a good idea. I guess Carols' idea of putting reflective material on

the ground already helps quite a bit with insulation. Above that you'd need

to protect the plant above groundlevel aswell i guess ?

 

<<That is to say, within his greenhouse, he will put an additional small box

covered with ramai (sp??) or plastic. That way, on very cold nights, there

are two layers to protect the plants.

 

You just use them at nights, right ? I can't see any good in covering a

plant all the time.

 

<<Anyway, right now the whole thing is covered with about 8 inches of snow.

Yippee!! I can't help loving the snow, it's so cheerful.

 

Snow ! Why ooh Lord did you forget Belgium this year :-)

 

<<Didn't Prabhupada say that Krsna has snow in the Vaikuntha, and that it is

different colors? Sounds great.

 

Whatever. Any snow will do to satisfy this conditioned soul for now :-)

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>

> Can't find it in my dictionary, so could you explain a little what is remay

 

Wasn't it you who covered Balabhadra's young fruit trees to protect them from

the 17 year locusts? That was remay you used.

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Madhava Gosh das wrote:

> I use remay to protect plants outdoors from unexpected late frosts,

or unseasonable early ones. It is better than plastic , because you can

>lay it right on the plants themselves. Plastic attracts frost, so

>although it does protect

>plants underneath it, any leaves touching it will get burned.

 

We have a product here called fleece (commercial name) that I put over

plants in the way you mention and very cheap too.

 

I like very much the idea recently mentioned about hanging rows of pipe

along the inside of greenhouses to plant rows of hanging lettuce etc.

 

I have been wondering also how commercial growers are able to get, say,

early potatoes really early. In Austria, which is much colder than England

they are producing early popatoes and marketing them here.??

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>

> We have a product here called fleece (commercial name) that I put over

> plants in the way you mention and very cheap too.

>

> I like very much the idea recently mentioned about hanging rows of pipe

> along the inside of greenhouses to plant rows of hanging lettuce etc.

 

Find info on remay, also called floating row cover, at

 

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/cgi-local/Minishopsql4.cgi?action=page&adver=other&item=EXTD

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<<Wasn't it you who covered Balabhadra's young fruit trees to protect them

from the 17 year locusts? That was remay you used.

 

Yes, I was. Not that it impressed the locusts... I wonder how many of the

trees survived ? But, I wasn't aware that this was remay... and I couldn't

figure it out from Carols letter either.

 

dirk

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"(Bhakta) Dirk Vansant (Geel - B)" wrote:

 

> <<Wasn't it you who covered Balabhadra's young fruit trees to protect them

> from the 17 year locusts? That was remay you used.

>

> Yes, I was. Not that it impressed the locusts... I wonder how many of the

> trees survived ? But, I wasn't aware that this was remay... and I couldn't

> figure it out from Carols letter either.

>

> dirk

 

Remay might be a particular brand name, I don't remember off hand.