10 Best Ways to Heat Greenhouse for Free, DIY Cheap Low Cost Heater Winter Growing Poly High Tunnel

How To Heat & Extend Your Growing Season & Even Grow In Winter!
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🗣 I completely disassembled this greenhouse just to rebuilt it step by step on video, with detailed closeups, new 4K cameras, all new materials, & after many requests; No loud background music. I also improved the design functionality & strength, which I think will help you with your build! 🌱

Im mild climates the greenhouse allows for growing year round. All year growing can be achieved by using water jugs or barrels for thermal mass.
In cooler climate this greenhouse allows growers to extend their outdoor growing season by several months! I use to have to wait until May after last frost to grow outside and plants died by early October. After making this greenhouse I was able to start seedlings in the greenhouse in March and the extra warmth & protection the greenhouse provides made the plants grow stronger, healthier and more bountiful for transplant earlier, and I was able to start another cycle of cool weather crops in September and harvest in late November!

@12:13 I incorrectly said a depth of 30 feet, I meant to explain that a Length of about 30 feet & a depth of around 5 feet so that it would be long enough to have sufficient heat transfer. (longer would be better, if you have the means, you could coil it as in the photo I showed to maximize efficiency)

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[pollyjetix]

The only reason a compost pile would have an ammonia odor, is if there is not enough carbon added to the nitrogen stuff.
Nitrogen is from animal or bird manure, or from green leafy plant material.
Carbon is from woody materials. Rotting sawdust, wood chips, autumn leaves. And lime is not needed.
Any time your compost smells like ammonia, find some rotting sawdust, and add enough to stop the odor.
Well-balanced compost smells like fresh forest soil.

[jimbono]

It's 3am why am I watching this? I don't even have a greenhouse!

[kirkjohnson]

I heat my greenhouse literally for free. It is a method not available to everyone but worth noting. I have a spring at the top of my property. The greenhouse is downhill. I ran the overflow pipe from the springhouse to the greenhouse and I have an unlimited supply of 55 degree water to heat the greenhouse with. It's not a lot but a very stable heat for cool weather crops and extending the growing season in both directions.

[keng]

A grower in TN wanted to move from rockwood to Rossville. Hi heat bill was already 8000 a month...crossville was much colder...
He experimented with triple poly layers...it cut the bill 34 percent with negligible light loss...a true pioneer Dan the Man

[robertclark]

I have a high tunnel (60 feet long) in Georgia. I dug a deep trench in the center of the tunnel. I get free wood chips. I buy 1000 pound rolls of "rough" hay for $10.00. I take chicken manure, hay and wood chips and fill the trench (then water it very well). My wife calls it chicken poop soup. I let my chickens roost above the trench year round but only fill the trench in the winter. The tunnel stays warm and toasty. The chickens love it when I dig the old compost out and spread it, so does my garden.

[lindamoses]

😮A friend of mine had a glass greenhouse with a brick floor. It had a small wood stove. There was a vent going into the home at the ceiling and one at the floor of the home. Patio sliding glass doors opened into it. She had plants in pots. The real gem was that the greenhouse heated her home in the winter with patio doors shut, a small fire on cold nights caused the air to vent into the home and circulate. This was cold weather country in Idaho. The Grand Tetons could be seen in the distance.

[ameador]

I would like to add a comment about the heat lamps (bulbs). It is common in the greenhouse to have moisture build up, condense, and then cause water drops to fall from the ceiling. When these heat lamps are good and hot and water drips on them, I have had more than a few bulbs literally explode! Causing a mess of glass shards to clean up. Know I always make sure to have the aluminum hoods to be above them or have something over them to make sure water cannot drip directly on the bulbs.

[donhendershot]

Here are a couple more ideas for you.

Add a layer of bubble wrap to your walls in the winter for insulation.

Add a layer (I make a tunnel) of clear plastic over the plants. Every 6 mil layer effectively moves you a Zone to the South. Then, just heat the area under the plastic and not the entire GH.

[tersta]

Had a late April deep freeze and used tea light candles for a few days until I ran out. Then I used an old crockpot filled with sand for a week or more until I got a 500 watt space heater, a temperature controller and a solar powered fan. Even still the overnight temperature drops to 40* and I have the controller set to come on at 45* and turn off at 62*. I wouldn't try running all winter, but it has saved my investment in starting seedlings in mid-April and will let me extend the season into the fall for a few melon, pepper and potato plants. In a pinch, the crockpot saved the day.

[TheSnowyWind]

A few more tips: 1. A slow cooker can output a max of 300w. Breakfast/dinner will be ready the next day. 2. A water distiller can output 750w. As always, use a thermostat smart plug to prevent waste. 3. Solar panels can output 12v to heat the water in the 65-gal barrels up to 100°c. 4. An off-grid solar system with LiFePo4 100AH battery ($265~) can provide free electricity.

[ronsmith]

Method #1. Take black irrigation pipe of from 1" to 2" diameter. Cut into a length that will extend from near the baseboard to the ridge. leave it open on both ends. As the pipe heats up, the air inside rises cold air is drawn in the bottom and hot air exits the top. At times the circulation can be dramatic. Any garbage black pipe would work.

[markfcoble]

Thanks....going with wood stove and two blue fifty fives for thermal mass as you show.

[LivingTheGoodLife]

@12:13 I incorrectly said a depth of 30 feet, I meant to explain that a Length of about 30 feet & a depth of around 5 feet so that it would be long enough to have sufficient heat transfer. (longer would be better, if you have the means, you could coil it as in the photo I showed to maximize efficiency)

[giftofgab]

Sounds like he's talking about Melanin🥰

[troyyarbrough]

The green or pink stuff in the water jugs is not mold - it's algae. Also the terracotta pots with the tea candle won't even heat a small tent. In my opinion, the best method in this video was the large barrels of water. As long as you have enough hours of good sunlight to heat them, they should give off heat for quite awhile.

[VladR]

Very cool vid ! Especially the water heat mass being heated for free by sun, then slowly releasing the heat overnight. How did I not think of this before !!!!Many people seem to think that candlelight is nonsense, but unless you have experienced -40 F/C cold storm in a car, you wouldn't believe how effective two small candlelights can be. Of course, the volume of air in a car is nothing compared to greenhouse, but there's a reason a can+tea candles are recommended as a winter survival tip, because it's really simple, cheap and effective. Not sure it'd make a dent in a large greenhouse. Probably not even 0.1C, unless you burn two dozens...

I also wonder, how much longer can you extend the growing season by using those tips ? We never used to plant anything in a greenhouse before May, due to frequent April freezing nights. But, this makes me wonder, if using these tips it would be possible to start planting stuff around April 01-15, and extending it till October 15-30 ? Meaning, full 7 months in a climate that dips below -40F in winter?

Certainly, if one placed few solar panels, even with a small battery, that could run couple efficient 12V heaters (not the 1.5 kW nonsense) through the night for free (minus the initial cost for panels and battery).

I've never heard of the wood stove in a greenhouse before, but that could certainly heat it even in March and November :)

[jackkonnof]

I got tired of paying to heat mine so I dug 9 ft into the ground and put a double poly roof on with air cushion in between. Worked great so far and no heat bill and im in zone 5a

[Nightowl]

If your compost pile is giving off an ammonia or nasty smell then you probably didn't add enough carbon to it. Compost piles also need oxygen so they can properly break down, generally speaking any part that is 1 foot away from air will go anaerobic and possibly start giving off bad smells too. I suggest the Johnson/Su compost method because it gives the best results.

[mediamattersismycockholste]

"most people have them (red or blue heat lamps) lying around from old reptile tanks or fish tanks..." lol! No.. no we do not.

[timmeier]

As a hobby only! I have a small greenhouse 4’x6’x7 high and use 300watt solar system with 171 useable AHs and a 250 watt heater with fan to keep things going late fall or early spring works awesome, summer I use some small exhaust fans but remember your greenhouse must be tight to start with