May 15 2014
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That’s Where My Apples Come From? The Basics of Grafting

The curious things about apples is that if you eat a Fuji apple, and plant the seeds from that Fuji apple, you won’t necessarily get a Fuji apple when that tree begins to fruit.  You may get something similar, or you may get something completely different.  Sour.  Mushy.  Huge or tiny.  It’s a total gamble…
Year-Round Aquaponic Greenhouse_Ceres Greenhouses
Mar 17 2014
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Get Started! Jump Start Tomatoes with Cloning

​It's the time of year for starts. This year we learned a great technique for the impatient gardener... cloning! It's a very simple system : grown branches of many plants (tomatoes are the most common) will re-root from grown branches. The trickiest part is having access to a mature tomato plant (knowing a greenhouse gardener or…
Vertical growing in a greenhouse
Feb 25 2014
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Vertical Garden Made Out of Recycled Soda Bottles

Grow Up! …And maintain some whimsical fun with this colorful, aromatic, self-watering vertical garden made out of recycled soda bottles. There are several variations of how to build this… stringing together several columns of bottles or creating a simple one. In the PDF below we show you how to string several together. In effect, this…
ladybug in a greenhouse
Feb 25 2014
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What do 2,000 ladybugs in a greenhouse look like?

Natural pest control (using good bugs to kill bad bugs) is a great remedy for any pest outbreaks in a greenhouse. Partly because it is so easy... buy and release an army of beneficial insects, such as lady bugs or lacewings, and let them go to town feasting on aphids or gnats that may be eating…