Unheated Greenhouse in Late November in Southern Ontario, Canada

These were pictures taken November 20th inside out unheated backyard greenhouse. Some things aren't surprising, such as the peas and the carrots, other things are surprising such as the strawberries and the watermelon. It gets fairly warm in their during the day if it is sunny enough, but it does still cool off in there quite a bit at night. We notice that the plants that are close to the plastic wall of the greenhouse are wilting and turning brown whereas the stuff at least a foot from the sides are maintaining their color for the most part. The vibrant colors of the flowers are wonderful. I hope that lasts for a while. We have not yet implemented any heating experiments of any kind.

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[jihadacadien]

WOW! I hope you do have a heater in there....just in case. Would be sad to lose all those beauties just to a freaky cold night!

[GettingThereGreen]

@jihadacadien yeah...... we have been going through a pretty bad cold spell since this video. we lost some of it. I think the biggest of the pumpkins is still good. the colder weather stuff like carrots, peas, greens, beets are just fine still. ~Amanda

[dalecalder2003]

Are you sure....LOL. That's amazing I wonder how much longer it will last.

[GettingThereGreen]

@dalecalder2003 I'm surprised with how well some of it is doing. We haven't had terribly cold weather here yet, just around freezing temperatures, not much lower. So I can't really venture to guess how well it will do further into the winter, but so far so good. ~Amanda

[pinetar100]

looking great......whats the temp getting at night.

[GettingThereGreen]

@pinetar100 I'm not sure. most nights outside are down around the freezing mark. Inside the greenhouse I suspect it is possibly a couple degrees warmer. The temperature drops pretty quickly in the greenhouse when the sun goes down. ~Amanda

[BananaJSSI]

I use old school C-9 X-mas lights to heat my greenhouse only on the coldest days of winter which we don't have many.

[jihadacadien]

@GettingThereGreen Oh I hope some umpkins survive!

[TheUrbanOutdoors]

cool video style