High Tunnels Could Be Your GREATEST Investment

Good Morning Deepsouth Homestead and Subscribers......we are Thankful for the opportunity to work with such an amazing informative channel......2021 is gonna be a great year for gardeners😍❤💐God Bless Everyone and Peace Be With You

Thanks so much for including us in this excellent collab!!! We love you guys, and we love our Seasonal High Tunnel!!!

We have had a few issues so looking forward to everyone's input. Have a blessed day to all 3 channels.

I absolutely love this collaboration🌟🌟🌟🌟💝💝💝💝💝💞💞💞💞💞

Good morning Mr and Mrs Danny and the viewers , sending greetings from Jamaica,,🇯🇲

You provide some really good information on airflow and ventilation. I subscribed and want to see everyone's ideas and solutions. I have five 100ft long high tunnels and I did some modification to all of my houses three years ago and eliminated several problems Our prevailing breezes and winds come out of the east and I built the tunnels on an east/west axis to catch these winds. Over two seasons I experimented and installed large swinging opening doors on my upper end walls at both ends. They are approximately 12ft x4ft. I prop them open in early June and leave them wide open until September. I typically open the roll up side about two feet and leave them that way all summer also. If we have cool weather or winds, I may roll them closed. If we start to see ANY condensation on the side walls I open them up ASAP. This simple modification allows the cold air entering through the lower roll up sides to heat up and rise, exiting the upper end walls taking out the heat and moisture. This rising air draws in more cooler air and the cycle continues. It is a simple effective chimney effect. This air flow removes excess condensation eliminating powdery mildew100% Because I now have better air flow and cooler temps, I removed the shade cloth. A 40% shade cloth is robbing your plants of 40% of the precious sunlight and maximum growth. It only took me eight years to figure that out. If you don't vent the rising hot air, it just stagnates in the upper part of the tunnel like a big old insulating blanket. The plants transpire even more moisture to cool off putting more moisture into the environment. I learned this lesson the hard was a few years back when I killed an entire high tunnel in about 4 hours of not paying attention. Proper and effective ventilation is the key to everything in high tunnels.

I'm almost sold on high tunnels but can't get past not having the benefit of rainfall to give me an occasional break from watering. I would need a rainwater collection system.

We love our high tunnel, thanks for the info in the past video's. This new collaboration with Grow Family Network and Alderman Farms is awesome. Looking forward to the future videos. Thanks for all the hard work that you two put into your videos, it shows. Bless you both.

We bought our own as we couldn’t get the government ones. We also paid the Mennonites to put it up. We built boxes, and we have mineral tubs growing mediums. Glad you guys are answering these questions. Blessings to you all.

Love, love, love the collaboration, what a wonderful idea. So great to see homesteaders working together. I look forward to this series.

Morning Y'all , very nice, looking forward to this new adventure, got lots of questions, but will wait until the end of series, because they may be addressed in upcoming videos ! How Exciting!! Thanks to All !!

Nice to see the calebreration

Just finished building the first of two 13x30 high tunnels. Here in Florida we need the airflow and rain cover.

Once again! Thank you! 💚

EXCELLENT ! Love your tunnel & food, fantastic set up🙏😇☘🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🙏😇🌷🌷& very kind & humble Bless you both 🙏😇🙏

What a great job you are doing. You speak very well from experience, your diction is very clear, no ummimng and arrring! Very informative. I have looked at probably 50 plus high tunnel channels to pick up hints and tips. But here you have rolled everything into one video! Amazing. Thankyou. Possibly I missed a lot on the others as basically, as I was searching for which to build that would suit my pocket, my yard, the neighbourhood and what I thought I'd use it for. Did I still need a green house...what to do with my straw gardens...how far down the paddock would I put it so it was not a chore to get to it and so on... Re the mould etc from lack of ventilation. I worked with a shipping container farming idea where they grew food in 7 days for cattle...breaking the old saying that it takes 3 kg of grain to grow one kg of meat-protein. We achieved a 1 for 1 ratio, which was unheard of. The cattle ate the 6 inch green shoots and also the root systems which still had a lot of the sprouted grain origins in it. We had trouble with mould on the 5th, 6th and 7th day and the green feed that grew was too pale to look right! So we installed windows into the last days run in the containers and that sorted out the colouring straight away. We installed ozone misters and that fixed the 5th day mould and gradually we reduced the growing period from 7 to 6 days and it all went well. The 40 ft containers were fitted out with 6 or 7 shelves, all on runners so each day as the 7th day trays were emptied, the new ones were started at the other end, pushing the other trays towards the end doors. Brilliant concept, could be transported for emergencies, fires, famines, droughts etc to grow food for cattle, humans etc. We grew tomatoes, lettuce but mainly animal fodders. One 40 foot container grew the equivalent of 60 acres of farmland, no tractors, irrigation etc etc. Seeds were mixed to the protein requirement of the animals, Milk cows, beef cattle, even girrafes and zebras in middle eastern zoos etc.

Best collab I've watched yet. Thank you.

Great information. Looking forward to this series.

Awesome information, y'all! THANK YOU!

We have a high tunnel through the NRCS EQIP program. There were a couple of restrictions...having to grow in the ground is the main one. And the restrictions are only for three years. Saved us thousands of dollars. After the three years are up, we may set up tables and raised beds. Thanks for the vid.