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Planning Your Greenhouse: Part I
The first step in planning your greenhouse is to determine the best site on your property for the structure.
Benefits of a Greenhouse: Part III
Few things are more disappointing than pleasantly anticipating the first fresh salad of the season only to find that garden pests or local wildlife had the same idea when you go out to harvest.
Benefits of a Greenhouse: Part II
You can enjoy your own ripe fruit freshly picked from the vine in the middle of a cold and snowy winter.
Benefits of a Greenhouse: Part I
Part 1 of our greenhouse benefits guide goes over the top reasons why you should be growing in a greenhouse.
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Water Quality Issues in Your Farm Pond
If you use your farm pond for anything more than raising koi or handling stormwater, you need to test the water at least once a year.
Farm Pond Nuisance Plants and Animals
Nuisance plants and animals can ruin the water quality, kill off fish and chosen plants, and damage a pond liner with sharp claws.
Farm Pond Security and Liability
Even if your pond is located entirely on private property with no visibility or advertising, you are responsible for any injuries or damage caused by the feature.
Importance of Vegetation Around Your Farm Pond
Not only does a pond with exposed raw soil stand out unpleasantly from the rest of the landscape, but it’s also prone to erosion and leaks without a protective layer of vegetation.
Spreading a Farm Pond Liner
For small landscaping ponds of just a few hundred gallons, spreading pond lining material by hand is a simple process.
Quick Tips on Excavating or Building Your Farm Pond Dam
Using heavy machinery to excavate the pond or shape the embankment dam goes relatively quickly, but it requires plenty of care and attention.
How to Plan for Drainage in Your Farm Pond
Almost all ponds, except for raised excavated designs on flat surfaces with high levees, intake some amount of runoff water.
How to Determine the Size of Your Farm Pond
Before you can set a budget for your pond liner and heavy machinery costs, you’ll need to know the approximate size of the pond.
Embankment vs Excavated Farm Ponds
Once you’re prepared for the permit process and you’ve picked a site for your pond, you can move on to designing its size, shape, layout, and special features.
Choosing the Right Farm Pond Liner
When you can’t rely on the soil itself to hold water, you have three main options for lining your farm pond.
Water Sources for Your Farm Pond
Regardless of the type or size of farm pond you design, you’ll need fresh water flowing into it to replace what’s lost through evaporation and overflow.
How to Choose a Location For Your Farm Pond
There are dozens of different considerations that determine the perfect site for a pond. Many of them are a matter of preference or fixed by circumstances, such as proximity to your home for convenient swimming...
Benefits of a Farm Pond
Ponds are relatively easy and affordable to create, offer multiple benefits to the property owner, and require relatively little maintenance and troubleshooting when built correctly.
How to Use Your Light Deprivation Greenhouse to Tend Sick Plants
If any of the plants you are growing begin to show signs that they are undergoing some type of disease, pest, fertilizer burn, or drooping leaves and general symptoms of sickness, a separate greenhouse can be designated for these plants.
Things You May Not Know About Light Deprivation Greenhouses
here are several intricacies to light deps that make them more productive and easier to source organic nutrients, help infected plants, return to health and more.
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Is a Light Deprivation Greenhouse Right for Your Business?
To determine whether the costs of implementing a light dep system are worth the reward, you might want to take a few things into account.
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Different Light Deprivation Greenhouse Setups
There are several different designs to choose from, from the most complex, to the simplest.
How to Make Your Own Light Deprivation Greenhouse
To start on your light dep project, we will focus first on greenhouse construction.
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How to Use Greenhouse Light Deprivation for Your Business
If you are looking to increase your yields, have many harvests throughout the growing season, or withstand extreme weather conditions, light depriving greenhouse systems are a viable answer to your business-related questions.