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Whats your favorite hand watering tool?
Since we're on the subject of water breakers, what do you'all use for plugs?
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Heating unused greenhouses.
Robin, thanks for those really good ideas. I've drained pvc lines and still had some frozen elbows. But the foam or a wooden box around incoming water lines and pumps may be the answer.
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Since we're on the subject of water breakers, what do you'all use for plugs?
When blowing out lines with air its more about the volume of air you supply not the pressure to get good results. Heat tape works good in spots that have to be left on in unheated areas.
Hi Jane,
Well In our retail houses that we open late We use Water standpipes where the water comes in the building. We do run a hose from there to overhead pipes that distribute the water through out the house. When we shut the house down we discon…
Robin, thanks for those really good ideas. I've drained pvc lines and still had some frozen elbows. But the foam or a wooden box around incoming water lines and pumps may be the anwer.
Michael, we are a little behind you in terms of climate. We are opening another greenhouse Feb. 22nd (we have one full now)and then the rest right after that. We used to bring cuttings in earlier but, in response to the high cost of fuel, found we c…
jane, we put a shutoff and tee at the exit of the well water from the tanks, in the tee we place an air
valve that will accept a nozzle from an air compressor. initially shut the power off to the well, then manually open all boiler drains etc to rel…
Jane, I am curious as to when your Spring sales season starts and why you would have empty greenhouses right before the best sales period of the year? Here in S.E. Texas Spring sales usually sky rocket in early March and it has turned out over the y…
We have always turned the heat up to 60 degrees in our unused greenhouses when a snowstorm is forecast. And we've heated these same greenhouses to about 40 degrees to protect water pipes and pumps. Unfortunately, this is proving to be an expensiv…
I sold Shock Waves at the garden center and planted Shock Wave Mix in rectangular containers on my deck at home. I used Miracle Gro potting mix. They stayed pretty all summer long. There were many blooms and they never died out from heat. However, I…
Ed, thanks for the descriptions of our poinsettias. I think the ad I do this week will include "greenhouse fresh" poinsettias rather than 6" poinsettias. You're right, we describe them as a commodity, not as a unique hand-grown gift item.
Okay, here's how I feel about the box stores. I love to go and look at their plants but, as a grower and retailer, I can offer a whole lot more variety in almost all categories of plants. Those seed catalogues we growers receive each year have a lot…
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