Post by simplynaturalfarm on May 1, 2016 14:28:20 GMT -5
I am tired of trotting out to the greenhouse 3x at night to see if it is too cold, dying by morning etc. I ordered a wireless with 4 . . thingies and it won't read more than 20 feet from the product. I only needed it to go 50 feet, but when I walk that much further it stops. I don't have metal in between me and the greenhouse, just one 2x2 wall and a plastic greenhouse . . .
I wanted the 3-4 wireless monitors so I could put one in my chick brooder, twoin the freezers and one in the greenhouse. So expandability is great. I don't know if I just got a defective one or what, but when all four are placed side by side, there can be a 20F degree difference between them and 20% humidity. When I put them out in the greenhouse where I have a plug in thermostat that runs the heater, the thermostat will read 49 and these silly thermometers will read 62. . . I am now wondering if the thermostat is off horrifically too, but it keeps the plants alive so I believe it. . .
Anybody who uses seed mats to keep roots warm - do you also run a heater? I know that they say warm root bed will work better than just the air temp being warm and you can get away with even cooler air temps, but how cool is safe with no heater? The reason I wonder, is that we have 30-40's night time predicted for next 2 weeks and up until 3rd week of June, 40's night time predicted. . . I'm beginning to wonder how my squash is going to fare with those cold temps!
I laugh when people tell me the tomatoes grow best with nightime of 70 and to keep my greenhouse that warm at night - mine will NEVER get that in the garden and in fact, we rarely get above 60F any night here all winter long. Makes for almost no heartworm issues for the dogs though as the mosquitoes that carry it need it to be above 65F nighttime for more than 10 days at a time. Which is one good thing about such cold nighttime temps for my garden
throwback I would love to hear your recommendations. I might lose 5 years of my life worrying about my greenhouse every spring and much to my absolute horror, I planted only 1/2 the amount of normal things (DH is sure we will move), and then my thermostat for the heater died and it fried all my flowers and herbs and half the tomatoes so now I have almost nothing. DH tells me maybe it is a sign (a sign the thermostat sucks I say!)
I wanted the 3-4 wireless monitors so I could put one in my chick brooder, twoin the freezers and one in the greenhouse. So expandability is great. I don't know if I just got a defective one or what, but when all four are placed side by side, there can be a 20F degree difference between them and 20% humidity. When I put them out in the greenhouse where I have a plug in thermostat that runs the heater, the thermostat will read 49 and these silly thermometers will read 62. . . I am now wondering if the thermostat is off horrifically too, but it keeps the plants alive so I believe it. . .
Anybody who uses seed mats to keep roots warm - do you also run a heater? I know that they say warm root bed will work better than just the air temp being warm and you can get away with even cooler air temps, but how cool is safe with no heater? The reason I wonder, is that we have 30-40's night time predicted for next 2 weeks and up until 3rd week of June, 40's night time predicted. . . I'm beginning to wonder how my squash is going to fare with those cold temps!
I laugh when people tell me the tomatoes grow best with nightime of 70 and to keep my greenhouse that warm at night - mine will NEVER get that in the garden and in fact, we rarely get above 60F any night here all winter long. Makes for almost no heartworm issues for the dogs though as the mosquitoes that carry it need it to be above 65F nighttime for more than 10 days at a time. Which is one good thing about such cold nighttime temps for my garden
throwback I would love to hear your recommendations. I might lose 5 years of my life worrying about my greenhouse every spring and much to my absolute horror, I planted only 1/2 the amount of normal things (DH is sure we will move), and then my thermostat for the heater died and it fried all my flowers and herbs and half the tomatoes so now I have almost nothing. DH tells me maybe it is a sign (a sign the thermostat sucks I say!)
. BUT I made the executive decision to try to get them planted in the greenhouse as they are not saying a frost the rest of the month (the lowest is 38), and they do so much better in the soil! I find that if I plant early, they never do better than the ones started 6-8 weeks before setting out. 
