Hot house

By dennis

building

We get so much snow every year that we have to rebuild the greenhouses every year. The snow is light and fluffy at first, but always ends up as ice.
To prevent the green house from collapsing we have to take the plastic off and just leave the frame in winter. Even then the weight of the snow bends the pipes and does a lot of damage.
Also by having to remove the plastic every year it reduces its transparency and life span. We can only use it about 3 years. Living in one of the snowiest places on the planet doesn’t make life easier and certainly can get costly.

Anyway, here is a timelapse of how we put the roof back on. ( click ‘ building ‘ on top)
or on youtube 

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Nothing but tomatoes.

By dennis

Here is a time lapse of the process of planting tomatoes in a green house.
YOu can also watch it in HD.

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Yotei morning.

By dennis

Here is a video of a morning at Niseko Green Farm. This was just before we hit by heavy rains and susuki grass took over and grew about 40 cm in 2 weeks. After that we lost quite a bit of produce that got swallowed up by the raging grass.
Having a fertile soil is great for your veggies, but also for the weeds.

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The first week of a tomato plant.

By dennis

The first week as a tomato plant.Click on the link to see the video on youtube.

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Watching the snow melt.

By dennis

Some nice miserable weather in April. Many cold and cloudy days. The recent rain helped to get rid of most of the snow and now we areWatching the snow melt away finally on our fields.
Hopefully it will not rain too much in the on coming weeks, so we can start with fertilizing our fields for another year of vegetable  growing.

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Just to break free.

By dennis

First try of a time lapse of germinating beans.  Please click here.

Growing seedlings indoor is a good way to get a head start in spring. Here is a first try time lapse of some dragon tongue beans sprouting to life.

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