Home-grown tomatoes in winter: Cattle Panel greenhouse

The Solace Greenhouse project is moving forward, after several plants were hit by frost and transplanted into the greenhouse, including flowers that were outside. Our goal is to eventually be able to provide fresh vegetables to others. Most of the plants have been grown from seed and our growing method is organic, using compost from our hens’ manure. Currently growing Avocado trees (two purchased and three grown from seed), two types of corn, strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, green beans, okra, chile, eggplant, lemon trees grown from seed, cantaloupe, watermelon, and a pineapple tree. We hope to add more as space provides. Garlic will be grown overwintering outside on the hay bales surrounding the greenhouse walls. Tired of leaf lettuce with “invisible” plastic film, “Vine-ripened” looking tomatoes that have been ripened using a gas, non-organic food with pesticides and genetic altering without being labeled, harmful ingredients in your food? Well, you can have your own garden greenhouse, so be encouraged, make the plans, design it, and start gathering materials. You’ll get there before you know it. This greenhouse is 14×16 built with cattle panels on cement blocks, covered with plastic film. When it’s 45 degrees outside it’s around 80 in the greenhouse, using two small electric heaters and a fan. We plan to add a rocket mass heater and daytime solar heat transfer system, someday.