what would i need to do to turn my small garage into a green house to grow windmill palm trees from spriglings

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Question by chuck b: what would i need to do to turn my small garage into a green house to grow windmill palm trees from spriglings
i sell small windmill palms in my front yard as a hobby,with some success and have decided to turn my small garage into a greenhouse in the winter to continue growng them for sell in the spring/summer season.i have no idea where to start with a grenhouse set-up and need advice. i want the most basic set up possible and also would be growing,not from seeds but from small spriglings that have already started to grow.any help would be greatly appreciated!!,….god bless and thank ya!!

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Answer by Pobept
install a bank of windows on the south wall you may also need 1 or 2 sky lights installed
buy and use grow lights
be aware overheating, and good ventilation to control temperatures and humidity are VERY important in growing anything in a green house

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Tips To Cut Your Greenhouse Running Costs

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Here are some tips to help keep your greenhouse running costs low:

In many sections of the country heat is the most expensive item in greenhouse operation; in other areas it is negligible.

Any manufacturer who specializes in greenhouse building will give you accurate estimates of heating costs for your location and greenhouse during an average season. Or a local plumber may advise you.

A friend in Michigan who uses a forced-air circulating heater for her seven-section redwood house finds the cost about .00 per season to maintain 50-degree temperatures at night and 60 during the day. A Minnesota grower, employing hot water for the same sized house, keeps it at 65 at night, 75 in the day, at an estimated cost of 5.00 per season.

Ventilation

Your plants should reach the market in tip-top shape, which will not happen if your greenhouse is too cold, too warm, or too drafty. So you should pay close attention to ventilation. Automatically controlled (thermostat) ventilators are helpful and relieve you of constant attention.

If you don’t have them, open the ventilators first thing in the morning if the day is due to be hot-regardless of the calendar. During the summer, I leave the ventilators open all the time. In spring and fall, take care that cold drafts do not blow directly over plants. The best way to ration fresh air is to open the ventilators a crack at a time, thus avoiding sharp declines in the inside temperature.

Ridge or side ventilators, and exhaust fans are available for greenhouses. If you are using side vents, be sure that they are arranged in a way that will not cause the air to blow directly across your plants. Louvered side vents provide excellent service and can function as part of the summer cooling system you may eventually wish to install. Plants such as cymbidium and cyclamen require rather low temperatures part of the year another good reason for a cooling system.

The large commercial grower in a huge greenhouse-with his constant personal attention, abundant water supply, and great body of air overhead-can well afford to have an opening in the roof as a means of ventilation.

But not so the person with a typically small, low-roofed, hobby greenhouse. Too much air can escape in a short time. And it is not only the hot air that escapes through a roof vent; with it goes the humidity the plants need so very much.

Automatic ventilation, via a fan system, changes the air completely every 3 minutes. With the fan in operation only briefly, your plants benefit from whatever humidity is in the greenhouse.

You can purchase manual ventilator openers made of metal, or by investing a little more, you can install automatic openers. These are hooked up to thermostats and will open and shut ventilators whenever a change of air is advisable.

Humidification and Cooling

Evaporative coolers do a wonderful job of both humidifying and cooling. One unit offers controlled cooling and humidifying-from a gentle breeze to a full torrent of air at the turn of a three-speed motor switch.

At full capacity this unit will change the air in a 14- by 30-foot greenhouse approximately every 2 minutes. Directional air-flow louvers on the fan swing easily into position to control flow to any part of the house to promote draft-free ventilation, cooling, and humidifying.

Most coolers currently on the market are built for eye appeal, as well as service and stability. In one model, heavy-gauge zinc-coated steel cabinets and louvers are primed with rust-resisting zinc chromate and finished in baked-on enamel, while special non-vibrating mountings support the heavy three-speed motor. Evaporating elements are constructed of three removable pads of odourless aspen.

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Q&A: Can you use a trash bag as a small greenhouse film?

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Question by Jesse West: Can you use a trash bag as a small greenhouse film?
I was just wondering if I could use a normal trash bag as the “panels” of a small greenhouse?

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Answer by tinman97prn
A trash bag won’t last long in direct sunlight. If you only want it to last a month of so it would be OK.

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Greenhouse Business Solutions for Greenhouse Gardeners

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Greenhouse gardening – are you one of the many people who love it? If so – have you ever considered turning it into a business? You really could – and listed below are some questions you should consider first:

* How much will it cost you to begin your new greenhouse business? * What type of marketing is appropriate for a greenhouse business? * Do you have to have a vendor’s license before opening your greenhouse business to the public? * What exactly is the zoning like in your neighborhood? * Bookkeeping – what will you do about that? * It may be over a year before turning a profit – could you handle that? * How many plants should I grow for my first season open to the public?

Answering the above questions is just the first step in realizing your dream of a successful greenhouse gardening business.

Greenhouse Business – It All Starts With a Dream

If you can, picture the very best greenhouse you may build – what would it look like? What would it feature? Don’t worry about financial limitations; there are none. Anything goes with this exercise. Now once you have the perfect greenhouse in your head, add the company aspect to it. After you have determined the very best possible greenhouse business, consider what areas of your perfection are realistic. To achieve this, look closely at your space available, budget, along with your personal amount of expertise.

Next, it’s important to develop an honest set of your own personal strengths and weaknesses as a future business owner. If you’re uncertain if you know enough about a business topic or if you are undecided if you would like to tackle a particular business area, make a separate list of these items for future research. After learning a bit more about one of these gray areas, you may find that you’ve developed the confidence to tackle an area on your own. Otherwise, move it to your set of weaknesses.

Now that you understand the areas you cannot or do not wish to perform, it is time to think about where you will get your help. This really is one of the areas many people have an issue with, as many people don’t like asking for or admitting they want help. Do not fall into that trap. If you are clueless about accounting principles – or just hate math – hire an accountant. If cleaning isn’t your thing, hire a maid service to help you keep things tidy. Just remember, your greenhouse business doesn’t have to be a one man show to be successful!

Paula Greenfield has nearly 20 years experience using and designing garden greenhouses and is an avid gardener. You can find additional useful information about greenhouse kits and greenhouse gardening at The Greenhouse Catalog.


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Safelite Autoglass

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Safelite Autoglass® Honors “America Recycles Day” on November 15, 2010











Columbus, OH (Vocus) November 15, 2010

Safelite AutoGlass® – the nation’s leading provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services – is a company with an environmental sustainability policy to increase internal efficiency by reducing solid waste and wasted energy and to act as the industry leader for “green” in the US market. As such, the company celebrates “America Recycles Day” on November 15, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and a great time to think about purchasing products made with recycled materials.

“We recognize that our activities inevitably have an impact upon the environment, both locally and globally. We believe that reducing our environmental ‘footprint’ is not only vital to the continued success and quality of our business and the service we provide, but that we also have a social responsibility to care for and protect the environment for our generations and those of the future,” said Safelite® president and CEO Tom Feeney.

Safelite’s commitment to recycling includes:

Traditional Recycling Program: Paper, corrugate, and aluminum/plastic are also recycled at Safelite® locations, just under 15,000 pounds per year.

E-Waste Program – Safelite® partners with Redemtech to recycle and re-use computers, phones and similar technology, keeping them out of the landfill. Approximately 300 phones each month are recycled. As of October 2010, Redemtech has processed almost 6,000 assets for Safelite®. That is the equivalent of:

    Produced energy savings equal to powering 1,026 houses for a year
    A greenhouse gas reduction equivalent to removing 106 cars from the road for a year
    Reduced hazardous waste equal to the weight of 665 bricks

Sustainable Product Usage – Safelite® uses 100 percent recycled Greenbar paper and has recycle bins throughout its locations.

Wood Pallet Recycling – To minimize company waste going to a land fill, the wooden pallets used in glass distribution are broken down and chipped for mulch. Some is also used in a composting process. The nails in the pallets are captured during the chipping process and sold as a low end recycled metal.

Recycling is just one element of the company’s environment commitment. Safelite® intends to:

    Reduce the environmental impact of its business, thus minimizing emissions and operational waste.
    Assess in advance the environmental impacts of any significant business decision made.
    Comply with relevant environmental legislation and other appropriate environmental requirements, seeking best environmental practice where it is viable to do so.        
    Be efficient with the resources used. This includes energy used in buildings and for transport, glass, consumables, water, and packaging.
    Provide the resources, training and information necessary for employees to comply with and implement this policy within their businesses.
    Work with suppliers and contractors to influence them positively in terms of our environmental policy.

About Safelite AutoGlass®

Safelite AutoGlass®, founded in 1947, is the nation’s leading provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services, providing mobile service to more than 95 percent of the U.S. population in all 50 states. The Columbus, Ohio-based company employs nearly 10,000 people across the United States and serves 4 million customers each year through its company-owned operations. For more information, visit http://www.safelite.com.

Media Contact: Melina Metzger, Safelite® Group, 614.210.9232, melina(dot)metzger(at)safelite(dot)com

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How do greenhouse gases work, quantum mechanically speaking? How do they block infrared radiation?

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Question by worldthoughts: How do greenhouse gases work, quantum mechanically speaking? How do they block infrared radiation?
So how do greenhouse gases work? They allow visible light from the sun to pass through the atmosphere, but block infrared radiation (heat) from leaving it. I know greenhouse gases are some of the bigger molecules, so I think that has something to do with it. Basically, what makes carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas and nitrogen not a greenhouse gas?

Also, anybody know the specific wavelength ranges that greenhouse gases (particularly carbon dioxide) block and those that it allows to pass through?

tl;dr: how do greenhouse gases work
or, even more succinctly: why are greenhouse gases greenhouse gases?

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Answer by Biofreak
The idea is simple. Every molecule is made up of atoms and these atoms can vibrate within that molecule (think of them like balls on springs). If they can vibrate at a frequency that corresponds to an infrared photon frequency, then that molecule will absorb that photon and re-emit it in a random direction. So that photon will end up bouncing around in the atmosphere more that it would have if it were not absorbed and passed straight through the atmosphere.

Now you might wonder why some molecules absorb in the infrared and some do not. Well, everything absorbs at some wavelength. The frequency something absorbs at depends on how tightly bound the parts of the ‘something’ are. Atoms typically absorb in the visible or ultraviolet frequencies because the electrons on the atoms are very tightly bound so they vibrate at very high frequencies. Molecules are less tightly bound, so they absorb in the visible and infrared. To absorb in the ‘green house’ band, then they simply need to be bound with the right ‘tightness’.

Actually, the mass of the molecule is not the critical issue. Greenhouse gasses are not heavier than other gasses. It simply that they have some frequency at which they vibrate that happens to be in the infrared (and most molecules have tens of different frequencies at which they vibrate). CO2 is an example of a greenhouse gas, but methane (CH4) is a much more ‘efficient’ greenhouse gas and weighs quite a bit less than N2. In fact, water is one of the worst greenhouse gasses (H2O). How good a gas is at being a greenhouse gas simply depends on what frequencies it vibrates at, which depends on how massive the atoms in the molecule are and how strong the bond is.

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Polytunnel Manufacturers And Your Garden

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A polytunnel is made of polyethylene which is planned to protect a row of plants or a part of a garden. Polytunnel manufacturers sell them in all shapes and sizes, from miniature models designed for residence gardeners to much bigger tunnels which are intended for commercial use. It is possible to order a polytunnel, usually as a kit from a manufacturer which largely deals in garden supplies, and thrifty gardeners can also construct their own, on condition that they have access to framing materials and a resource of polyethylene.

If you have a yearning to set up a garden full of flowers and fruits but apprehensive over several issues such as temperature, dust and other factors that are dependable for the encouragement of your plants. If you are eco-friendly and truly appreciate the value of plants in this polluted world then you can easily understand polytunnel manufacturers, and what they’re trying to promote.

A garden polytunnel is made of plastic material. It is used to farm plants that need high temperature and humidity more than what is at hand in our environment. These garden tunnels are for the most part used in temperate regions that have great disparity in temperature but not exceedingly hot or cold. These tunnels are more on the lines of greenhouses, but the chief difference is that a greenhouse is made of glass and wood, however polytunnel manufacturers build them with polyethylene. They are not only used for cultivating plants but also for farming function. Most farmers use garden tunnels to provide the requisite temperature to plants.

Since many polytunnels can be absolutely sealed, they also shield plants from insect infestations, which can ravage a crop. A polytunnel manufacturer who has built a sturdy polytunnel will also be able to repel larger pests such as deer and birds. It is also feasible to build raised and sealed beds in a polytunnel, by means of fresh soil. This can be practical for gardeners who have less than ideal soil to work with, and it can hold up soil-borne pests which might otherwise be an issue.Premier Polytunnels are specialist designers, Polytunnel Manufacturers and suppliers of polytunnels, Polytunnel accessories, and polythene covers.

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Maximum Performance Basketball In-Season Workout Book

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*multiple choice* What is the primary function of the clear glass of a greenhouse?

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Question by Naomi♥: *multiple choice* What is the primary function of the clear glass of a greenhouse?
1) The glass reduces the amount of insolation entering the greenhouse.
2) The glass allows all wavelengths of radiation to enter and all wavelengths of radiation
to escape.
3) The glass allows short wavelengths of radiation to enter, but reduces the amount of
long-wavelength radiation that escapes.
4) The glass allows long wavelengths of radiation to enter, but reduces the amount of
short-wavelength radiation that escapes.

This is a multiple choice question.

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Answer by Earth Man
(3) Everything enters, but long-wavelength infrared (IR) doesn’t escape. Infrared wavelength radiation is thermal energy, which is heat, which is why greenhouses are warm, which is why you grow plants in them all year round.

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Greenhouse Staging and Garden Furniture

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Every gardener, be it a beginner or somebody who is more experienced probably knows the importance of having the correct conditions and equipment to nurture their seeds/plants. So the location as well as purchasing the correct equipment is very, very important. Gardeners use their greenhouses in different ways. For the novice gardener they may be happy just growing a few tomatoes and herbs but for others it will be somewhere they use as plant a nursery.

Greenhouse staging is pieces of equipment that comes in all different shapes and sizes designed for different size green houses. They look like benches and are used to store the plants whilst they are nurturing. They come in single layered, multi-tiered rows and even folded benches. The folded benches are ideal for freeing up space when need be. They are extremely easy to assemble and dissemble. Plants and herbs require different amounts of sunshine or shade etc to grow, so these units are designed so that the plants can be placed in different positions depending on their required conditions.

Greenhouse staging is not just used in greenhouses, they can also be used in sheds, garages or for outside use. In the latter case the wood would be treated. The heavy duty staging units are designed to offer greater strength.

Many suppliers of Greenhouse staging units also supply garden furniture so browsing through their online catalogue or taking a trip to the garden centre to make your purchase could see you walking away with a few other garden essentials to equip you for those sunny weekends spent lounging in the garden.

To find out more about Greenhouse Staging and Garden furniture take at look a the Great Gardens Products website.


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