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Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on December 19, 2012 at 3:34am: Thanks guys....Once in 5 years eh..? Damn we got dumped with more than a half metre in 5 days. Not unusual here...Not much glare these days, can't say the same around the Summer Solstice though

Thanks again.

Comment by Jon Parr on December 18, 2012 at 8:03am: gorgeous. Nice work Vlad, and I love that snow. It's only snowed once at my place in the 5 yrs I've been here, and lasted only 3 hrs. I painted my rafts a dirt-brown shade, because the glare was bugging me to be around from white rafts. Congrats.

Comment by Sahib Punjabi on December 16, 2012 at 6:48am: Very Nice :-)
God bless

Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on December 15, 2012 at 1:26pm: Thanks Mikio :)

Yeah, most any type of head lettuce or COS seems to form way better heads when grown under cold conditions. Back when I had some hoop houses, the winter lettuce crop always seemed to look better (nicer tighter heads) than than when grown when things started warming up. Not that the leggy stuff tastes bad, just looks a bit goofy is all. If your growing indoors, poor lighting will also seem to cause similar 'legginess' (I call it "French Prime Ministers Mistress Syndrome)...

Man, I saw this one guys pic here on the forum and I swear his lettuce plants were like almost a metre long!

Comment by Mikio McCulloch on December 15, 2012 at 11:37am: wow. nice setup!

Comment by Bob Campbell on December 15, 2012 at 11:34am: Romain lettuce prefers cold Now I know why my lettuce looks so leggy.

I learn so much stuff from you

Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on December 15, 2012 at 10:26am: Hi Bob. At the moment I'm heating with propane (and I use the term 'heating' loosely). I'm only trying to keep things above 3C. We've had almost a whole week where it was dipping down to -15, but that cold spell seems to be over now. The ASTRA 30 (one of those cannon-blowers) ate up a lot of propane this past week. (I only have 2,300 litres of propane for the whole winter). I'm trying to scrounge materials to build a wood gassifier stove to help off-set the propane usage (air/water since I'm currently not heating my water at all).

On the few sunny days we've had recently (like the one pictured) inside the GH it'll get to 16-19C with no additional heating (no propane, just the solar radiation) even though it's well below freezing outside...but unfortunately, we haven't had too many sunny days at all lately.

The upshot to these cold temps is that the 4th raft, not pictured, is full of all Romaine lettuce that actually looks like Romaine lettuce, instead of some leggy climbing vine :)

Comment by Bob Campbell on December 15, 2012 at 8:38am: Vlad, how are you heating your greenhouse?

Comment by John Cubit on December 14, 2012 at 5:30pm: envy.

You have snow...