PS #24: How can We Utilize Our Outside Bed?

With the completion of the outer wall, we now have a space that can be used as a big plant bed to grow alongside the hydroponics system. Now we have to decide which plants to grow there.

Since the point of greenhouse is to continuously grow throughout the year, we want to look at year round plants for the bed. The thing is that since it is year round, we need crops that can handle a large range of temperatures and conditions. These are the plants I mentioned in the last article which are going to be more useful here than in the hydroponics system. Many root plants are able to tough out the winter, so that includes plants like carrots, beets, and radishes. We are able to change plants after harvest, so we also want to look at plants more suited to the hotter temperatures of the summer, like peppers, cucumbers, and tomatoes. We still haven’t finalized the choice for what we will plant in the outside bed, but since we have so many possible choices, we could even cycle through all of them over time.