Hi friends!

Sort of thinking out loud here, any advice would be appreciated.

I’m considering setting up my smaller greenhouses in one of the outbuildings on our property over winter to attempt to grow some things. Said outbuilding houses my rabbit in a stall year round, and she has a heat lamp in the winter. The building itself is not heated.

My thought process is that I could grow some cold weather crops on the shelves in the greenhouses (one is smaller, one is walk in) and with all the different lights and her heat lamp… I’d think it would at least add a bit to the ambient heat in the building? (Not a big building at all, smaller than our chicken coop.)

Am I being obnoxiously ambitious? Is this at all a feasible thought?

  • Mister@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your microclimate will also be a factor in this. I would just go for it and see what happens. May work some years, not work for others.

    One trick I’ve seen is to take black barrels and fill them with water. They will act as a heat sync during the day inside your greenhouse and give off heat at night when it’s cooler.