On 10-11-30 11:43 PM, Dan Beukelman wrote: > Hello All, > > I have read your posts for several years, but have not ever posted - > lurking in the shadows I guess. > > > > I am wondering if anyone out there has any thoughts/experience with > production agriculture from a greenhouse/hothouse structure. I live in > South Dakota and have been thinking that with energy efficient glass and the > right setup that growing fresh vegetables likes tomatoes year around might > be possible (I say this with a wind chill today near 0 fahrenheit). I have > read that many of the US tomato supply is grown in Canada, which is colder > than us, our area is dominated by grain farming - but I think that local > foods stores would go nuts over a locally grown garden type tomato in the > Wintertime. The construction costs of a very efficient greenhouse should be > able to be covered by the profit from selling a well growing tomato crop, > but the profits go out the window if you have the heat much. All of the > greenhouses I know of around here use plastic coverings and that is only > useful for extending the growing season a little bit on both ends. I am > thinking of keeping growth all year or nearly all year. > > > > Any thoughts? > > Dan > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: /pipermail/attachments/20101130/bf56a83d/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > Hi Dan, energy efficient glass wont work to grow plants.Ordinary houseplants dont need a lot of sunligth,not so Tomatos.A single glasspane is all you should install on greenhouses! Fritz
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