tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63037356754393963042024-03-14T14:49:02.718-04:00Rough Brothers, Inc.Rough Brothers, Inc. provides services like install, test, and service each component of greenhouse construction and greenhouse installation for commercial greenhouses.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-28067293052990592302015-11-16T08:28:00.001-05:002015-11-16T08:30:14.613-05:00Meet RBI at Annual Marijuana Business Conference and ExpoMeet RBI, Manufacturer of Greenhouses at the 4th Annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo. This is America’s oldest and largest national Cannabis trade show. The Marijuana Business Conference and Expo is being held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino from November 11-13, 2015. RBI will be exhibiting in booth 315, so please do not forget to stop by and talk greenhouses and systems with our salesman.<br />
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RBI is a single source for <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/" target="_blank">commercial greenhouses</a>. RBI designs, fabricates, engineers and installs greenhouses and systems that run efficiently to help yield a high quality and uniform crop. The prices of RBI products are very competitive considering the craftsmanship that goes into each one of RBI commercial greenhouses.<br />
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RBI will be displaying different pictures from past projects and discuss the possibilities that make the most sense for future cannabis greenhouse projects. Over 80 years, RBI has been able to adapt to new demands depending on the new growing trends. The newest growing trend across America is the growing of Medical and Recreational Marijuana.<br />
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<b>About RBI:</b><br />
We’ve created greenhouse structures, equipment and parts since 1932. We understand how growing schedules and market pressures can affect your business. As your partner, we will deliver practical engineered solutions, turnkey project management, and support every step of the way from renderings through installation<br />
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More details : <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/cannabis-greenhouses/">http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/cannabis-greenhouses/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-35579578620737471842015-10-06T15:39:00.002-04:002015-10-06T15:40:22.810-04:00The Cincinnati Flower Growers (CFGA) Meeting at Rough Brother’s Commercial Greenhouse Manufacturing Plant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">Rough Brothers Inc</a>. is hosting the Cincinnati Flower Growers Meeting at Vine street location on October 07, 2015. The meeting will start at 4:30pm with the plant tour of Rough Brother’s greenhouse manufacturing facility.<br />
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Neil Johnston, representative of R.A. McGovern Equipment Company, Inc. will be on hand to give a talk to local growers about Modine Manufacturing Energy Efficient Heaters for the greenhouse market. Neil will talk about simple and cost effective methods to keep greenhouse heaters running in top shape for the upcoming winter ahead. After, he will explain the new PTP line of stainless steel heaters, and how they differ from the old PDP line, and what benefits it has for greenhouse growers.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The Cincinnati Flower Growers (CFGA) is an association of growers, retailers, suppliers, and educators, dedicated to the promotion of flowers, and the well-being of those around us. In the 1950’s, a small group of flower growers started the Cincinnati Flower Growers Association. Many of these growers would grow, and sell their cut flowers to the stock houses located on the banks of the Ohio River (Where Paul Brown and Great American Ball Park Stadiums now reside). The growers banded together to help each other with the common goal of selling the best flowers, and assist each other during the year. In the early 1900's, when much of the cut flower market moved overseas, the term “Garden Center” was coined, and the rise of growers switching from cut flowers to hanging baskets and flatted flowers started to rise and memberships started to boom. Today, the Cincinnati Flower Growers comprises of growers, greenhouse hardgood suppliers, horticultural brokers, education personnel, and public entities such as parks departments and zoo’s.<br />
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Over 40 members are present in the groups long standing history in Cincinnati. CFGA meets the first Wednesday of each month (except February, May, and July) at a “host” location, keeping the membership alive, and help with the promotion of flowers in the Tri-State Area. Keith Bemerer is the Treasurer for this organization for 3 years.<br />
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About Rough Brothers, Inc. (RBI)<br />
Rough Brothers, Inc. has designed, engineered, manufactured and constructed <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/" target="_blank">commercial greenhouses</a> and related systems since 1932. For over 80 years, the company has provided the highest quality, best-crafted and most reliable greenhouse structures to the most successful growers, educators, researchers and exhibitors in the industry. Known for high quality greenhouse structures and fully integrated greenhouse systems including material handling systems, heating, cooling, ventilation, irrigation systems and environmental controls, the company is the leading structures and systems company in North America.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-80101529946047681462015-09-18T16:36:00.002-04:002015-09-18T16:37:35.786-04:00Gibraltar Industries Acquired Rough Brothers<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>To service the greenhouse market Rough Brothers has added three additional manufacturing facilities and acquired two companies to broaden the company’s product offerings. In June 2015, Rough Brothers was acquired by Gibraltar Industries which positions the company to continue its growth into the future.</i></blockquote>
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For over 80 years RBI has serviced the greenhouse industry with a timeless philosophy of providing the highest level of service and highest quality products. This philosophy has helped Rough Brothers grow and expand its design, engineering, manufacturing, distribution, and installation services. To service the greenhouse market Rough Brothers has added three additional manufacturing facilities and acquired two companies to broaden the company’s product offerings. In 2015, Rough Brothers was acquired by Gibraltar Industries which positions the company to continue its growth into the future.<br />
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Partnering with Rough Brothers ensures to work with the most dependable and knowledgeable greenhouse and conservatory representatives in the industry. RBI representatives use their floriculture experience to help its customers to identify the best greenhouse solution and work through any challenge they may encounter throughout the process. Rough Brothers offers the highest quality greenhouse or conservatory structure on the market. RBI greenhouses are designed with all the environmental systems in mind, ensuring a seamless integration between equipment and systems.<br />
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<b>About Rough Brothers, Inc. (RBI) </b><br />
Rough Brothers, Inc. has designed, engineered, manufactured and constructed greenhouses and related systems since 1932. For over 80 years, the company has provided the highest quality, best-crafted and most reliable greenhouse structures to the most successful growers, educators, researchers and exhibitors in the industry. Known for high quality greenhouse & conservatory structures with fully integrated systems including material handling, heating, cooling, ventilation, irrigation systems and environmental controls, the company is the leading structures and systems company in North America. Click here to learn more: <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/">http://www.roughbros.com</a><br />
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<b>About Gibraltar</b><br />
Gibraltar Industries is a leading manufacturer and distributor of building products for the industrial, infrastructure and residential markets. With a four-pillar strategy focused on operational improvement, product innovation, acquisitions and portfolio management, Gibraltar’s mission is to drive best-in-class performance. Gibraltar serves customers worldwide through facilities in the United States, Canada, England and Germany. Comprehensive information about Gibraltar can be found on its website at <a href="http://www.gibraltar1.com/">http://www.gibraltar1.com</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-33898920235916224542015-03-02T08:20:00.000-05:002015-03-02T08:21:20.858-05:00Rough Brothers Takes A Hands-On Approach To Several Projects<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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One of <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">Rough Brothers</a>’ favorite projects last year was a greenhouse expansion for Altman Plants at its new Giddings, Texas operation. According to Gary Baze of Rough Brothers, “It was a challenge adapting 18 acres’ worth of structure onto a single plot of land, complete with pond, elevation issues and water drainage concerns, all the while meeting both the environmental and material handling concerns of the business.”<br />
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“Even though this was one of the largest single volume projects we provided in 2014, it was one of the easiest to implement, thanks in large part to the degree of pre-planning that went into the design,” Baze says. “There were virtually no issues with the installation process. Also, Altman’s, which erected the project with its own labor, mastered the art of greenhouse building, overcoming several weather-related obstacles to get the project up and running.<br />
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Baze notes the biggest takeaway from this venture is that, regardless of the size of the operation or the style of structure you are considering, a massive amount of pre-planning will save you money and hardship through the process. “Having good working relationships with industry experts who can help line you up with products and services are key factors to achieve your goals,” Baze says.<br />
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Another major project Rough was involved in this past year took place at Scissortail Farms in Tulsa County, Okla. Scissortail Farms contains scalable production greenhouses utilizing aeroponic technology to grow lettuces, leafy greens and herbs.<br />
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Tom Vezdos, vice president of Rough Brothers’ <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/" target="_blank">commercial division</a>, says this project was a favorite because Rough was able to provide consultation, design and systems integration for an urban vegetable supplier. It supplied virtually all materials for the installation project, including the structure, diffused glazing, a propagation room, grow lights, carbon dioxide distribution, hot water boilers with radiant tube heating, evaporative cooling, roll-up curtains, ventilation, RoFlo benches, overhead irrigation and installation.<br />
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“We feel the market is looking for a local vegetable producer,” Vezdos says. “The hard part for our customers is to develop a profitable business to service this need.” And it’s a service, Vezdos says, that Rough Brothers was ready to tackle. “We feel we are providing a greenhouse and operating systems for the business to be successful and supply fresh produce to its markets for years,” he says.<br />
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Scissortail Farms is certainly proud of the effort offers a virtual tour of the new facilities.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-49003763620204760122014-12-05T16:11:00.001-05:002014-12-05T16:13:27.573-05:00Rough Brothers Completed a New Horticultural Center at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9KvgmLj235qyZVI5GAl73wR-KZdfBpmkBmIDSTsBluqGPuyuSEMN7rrt_pLszbypBjUV3Sb0WMo1Kl5ZeNpy2AwKkTXFkhR9jgxAUyvgctv3uKiSYodOunU3S5Zg9vmjPRz4LXohq052z/s1600/gI_81106_YDBG+3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9KvgmLj235qyZVI5GAl73wR-KZdfBpmkBmIDSTsBluqGPuyuSEMN7rrt_pLszbypBjUV3Sb0WMo1Kl5ZeNpy2AwKkTXFkhR9jgxAUyvgctv3uKiSYodOunU3S5Zg9vmjPRz4LXohq052z/s1600/gI_81106_YDBG+3.png" /></a>Rough Brothers, Inc. worked hand-in-hand with <a href="https://www.yewdellgardens.org/" target="_blank">Yew Dell Botanical Gardens (YDBG)</a> and an experienced team of award winning architects and contractors, De Leon & Primer Architecture Workshop and Kiel Thomson Company, to design and build a new horticultural center at their gardens in Crestwood, KY. YDBG’s respect for the tradition and history of their unique gardens coupled with their vision of a sustainable greenhouse formed the foundation for this very unique project. Rough Brothers’ greenhouse structure not only supports a glass roof and walls on the Southern exposure but is also the support system for a live green roof on the North slope. The green roof along with the greenhouse being nestled into a hillside provide ample insulation and thermal mass on the North side of the greenhouse to further control the environment.<br />
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<b>About Rough Brothers, Inc</b><br />
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Rough Brothers, Inc. has designed engineered, manufactured and constructed greenhouses and related systems since 1932. For over 80 years, the company has provided the highest quality, best-crafted and most reliable greenhouse structures to the most successful growers, educators, researchers and exhibitors in the industry. Known for high quality greenhouse structures and fully integrated greenhouse systems including material handling systems, heating, cooling, ventilation, irrigation systems and environmental controls, the company is the leading structures and systems company in North American.<br />
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For more information : <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">http://www.roughbros.com/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-41746242813290882422014-11-18T08:25:00.000-05:002014-11-18T08:27:07.145-05:00Rough Brothers' ConservatoriesFounded in 1932, Rough Brothers’ original business focus was greenhouse maintenance and repair. But, things are far different today. Company growth has been steady in recent years as the breadth of Rough Brothers’ services and products has far exceeded what the original five ‘Rough’ brothers could have ever imagined.<br />
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Today Rough Brothers and its sister companies cover the greenhouse & conservatory industry from one end to the other with specialized internal teams focused on different segments of the overall industry.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/services/conservatory-design/" target="_blank">Conservatory Division</a> at Rough Brothers represents one of these internal teams. Although overall project responsibility rests with a single Rough Brothers’ project manager, there is an equally talented and experienced group of people right behind that project manager who help insure the success of every project. These dedicated individuals represent a variety of disciplines from design & engineering, through botany & systems integration to manufacturing & construction.<br />
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Needless to say, much of Rough Brothers Conservatory Division’s success is directly attributable to the APGA and its member Gardens. Of similar importance is Rough Brothers’ continued design emphasis on performance over “looks”. Rough Brothers always strives to have your final conservatory design blend with the architectural intent or theme of the gardens, but more importantly always allow for a world class plant & plant exhibit facility. Accordingly, Rough Brother’s role in the early design stages of any conservatory has become more and more beneficial to the project’s overall success.<br />
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People often ask, “What is the difference between a greenhouse and a conservatory?” Probably many answers to that question, but Rough Brothers sees the key difference being: greenhouses are for plants; conservatories are for plants and people. No matter how complex the design, the real challenge is to create an environment that allows the plant life to flourish, but also provides a comfortable experience for the patron. Achieve these two performance aspects and deliver them in a fashion that is both energy efficient and maximizes the facility’s service life; and expectations are you will have a hugely successful project.<br />
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No single component or feature insures a fully operational conservatory. Whether “period restoration” or new “out-of-the-ground construction”, a myriad of conservatory design factors come into play. The end run is to balance the proper light level, air-movement, humidity and temperature control in a straight forward and easy to operate manner. To achieve the desired growing & exhibit space, each project calls for a unique combination of structure, glazing materials, conservatory equipment and systems integration. By working closely with the Garden’s design team, this is what Rough Brothers enthusiastically and proudly delivers.<br />
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Take a moment to visit Rough Brothers at their <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/services/conservatory-design/" target="_blank">website</a> or visit the corporate office and manufacturing facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information please contact Pat Long (513) 618-7262.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-60536919053945492642014-11-10T15:31:00.003-05:002014-11-10T15:32:52.503-05:0010 Reasons to Bulldoze Your Greenhouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If your greenhouse is less than 10 years old and is low-maintenance, energy efficient, laid out for smooth flow of materials and is serving your needs beautifully, you can stop reading right now and get back to making money.<br />
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But if you’re like most greenhouse owners, your houses range from 20 to 50 years old, and they’re a haphazard maze of hoop houses and gutter-connects of varying age, quality and efficiency. They may work, and they may be paid for, but are they the best for the long-term profitability of your business?<br />
Which leads to the question of retrofit or replace. Should you upgrade your old houses with modern glazing, heating systems and automation? Or is that like the fabled silk-purse-out-of-a-sow’s-ear trick?<br />
<a name='more'></a>If you’re at that point wondering if you should stick with what you’ve got, should retrofit, or should build fresh here are 10 reasons to finally turn the key on that Cat D-8 and knock down that old greenhouse.<br />
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1. <b><i>It’s a labor hog.</i></b> At 30% or even more of your production costs labor is your biggest single expense and hence the place you stand to save the most money. Yet too many growers continue on with inefficient greenhouse space. Bill Vietas of <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">Rough Brothers</a> says you can waste “easily 20 percent” in labor, much of that due to the inefficient greenhouse layout and excess steps and motion.<br />
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Says Rick Ouding of Kalamazoo Specialty Plants in Kalamazoo, Michigan, who knocked down his old ground-to-ground houses to make room for a gutter-connected range, “My labor per dollar of sales is getting cheaper every single year, and we’re paying our people more, so we’re doing the right thing.” (Rick has also retrofitted another house instead of bulldozed it, so he can argue both sides of the topic; more on that later.)<br />
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But think about your labor use: Are employees using small carts to squeeze down narrow aisles rather than hauling full cart-loads of plants? Are they carrying one or two trays by hand instead of moving wagon-loads? How long does it take to spray, or apply PGRs, or do other routine chores? How many turns are you getting per season? If you answer one or two, you’re losing money that could pay for a new range. Efficient performers can get four to six turns.<br />
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2. <b><i>It’s a space hog.</i></b> For some growers, space use is the biggest reason to flatten those old houses, especially free-standing ones. Granted, there’s something to be said for individual isolated zones offered by multiple free-standing houses. But at what cost? All that land between the houses is going to waste. Worse, it requires labor-intensive maintenance such as mowing or weeding. And all too often it accumulates unsightly junk.<br />
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It’s not just freestanding houses that waste space. Due to technological limitations, older <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/products/venlo/" target="_blank">gutter-connected houses</a> were limited in size. Two hundred feet or so was a maximum bay length due to cooling pad limits, so houses needed space between them for ventilation. And bay widths were limited by glazing, meaning more post rows and less useable space. But today’s widespan naturally ventilated houses can cover massive areas of land, leaving few dead zones on your property.<br />
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For New Jersey grower George Lucas of Lucas Greenhouses, space utilization is his number one priority. “The biggest reason to bulldoze is, for me, the useable square foot percentages. George has 80,000 sq. ft. of gutter-connected house built between 1978 and 1981 that he would dearly love to take down. “[My oldest house is] at 68 to 70% useable square footage at the most. My new glass house is at about 90 to 92%. That 20% (difference) of useable square footage will easily pay for our new structure.” And, he adds, the new structure will be much more labor and energy efficient. (The reason he hasn’t yet called in the heavy equipment, he says, is because demand for his product is so strong, even though he’s building 100,000-plus sq. ft. every year or two, he always needs more. He says the old 80,000-sq. ft. house will come down in 2010 or 2011, for sure.<br />
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3. <b><i>It’s an energy hog.</i></b> Lap glass, air leaks, no energy curtains, hoop houses with a high percentage of heat-losing surface area—all these factors add up to wasted energy. One knowledgeable grower told us he thinks old greenhouse use four times the energy of a new one that’s equipped with all the modern energy-saving measures!<br />
Today, whether you burn natural gas or oil, you need to think long-term conservation. Yes, you can staple up poly in the winter. But how much labor does that take? And how effective is it? And what does it do to your growing environment. At best, it’s a stop-gap measure with numerous drawbacks.<br />
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Should you retrofit your old house with a modern glazing system? You can, but the experts say that could cost $3 to $3.75 per square foot. And you’re still stuck with every other problem inherent to the old house. Add a new heating plant? Another couple bucks per foot. Energy curtains? Same thing. Pretty soon you’re spent $10 to $12 per square foot on your sow’s ear, and you’ve still got low gutters, old wiring and a labor-intensive layout.<br />
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4. <b><i>It’s a maintenance nightmare.</i></b> Do you spend more time fixing old greenhouses than growing new crops? Wouldn’t your time, energy and money be better spent working on the future, rather than keeping the past alive? As Kalamazoo Specialty Plants’ Rick Ouding says, “Sometimes you just look at [a greenhouse] and say, ‘You know what, it’s just not worth maintaining that piece of junk anymore.’”<br />
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5. <b><i>New automation won’t fit.</i></b> Booms and ECHOS in a 1940 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_%26_Burnham" target="_blank">Lord & Burnham</a>? Supposedly it can be done … but should you? Even if it looks practical on paper, in real terms a major retrofit is loaded with pitfalls. Just ask Jim Leider of Leider Greenhouses in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Leider’s did a major retrofit of Dutch container benches about 20 years ago, adapting them to their fairly new (at the time) gutter-connected houses, and they found there were many hidden costs. “We didn’t count on the fact that we’d have to do some rewiring and some rewelding of certain structural things to get the automation in.”<br />
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Jim was retrofitting fairly modern greenhouses. But one of the biggest drawbacks to an old house is its low gutter height. “Of any of the greenhouse dimensions, the height is probably more of an indicator that you need to get the bulldozer out,” says Nexus’s Jeff Warschauer. During the energy scares of the ’60s and ’70s, builders went low, thinking that less air volume to heat would mean lower energy use. What they didn’t figure on was that the small volume of air would be extremely difficult to maintain at a constant temperature. We’ve since learned that a tall greenhouse is actually more efficient to heat than a low one, especially when you add one or two layers of energy curtains.<br />
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An added benefit is overhead space for modern mechanization, such as energy curtains, boom irrigation and hanging basket systems such as ECHO and Boomerang. According to sales manager Chris Lundgren of Cherry Creek System in Colorado, you need 12 feet of gutter height to effectively hang a single layer basket system. If you have a house with 14 feet of gutter clearance, you can install a double layer ECHO, which Chris says would produce 10,000 baskets per turn in a 1-acre greenhouse. That could be $100,000 gross sales per turn, using existing overhead space—and at considerably lower labor than using stationary pipes.<br />
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Yes, you can jack up a house and weld in new posts, as Rick Ouding did. But unless you have lots of friends with jacks and forklifts, it’s not easy. And Rough Brothers’ Bill Vietas reminds you that the house may not now meet code for wind and snow loads. And remember, too, that there are hundreds of places where hidden costs come in, from changing your sidewall glazing to match the new height to adding on to electric, water, gas and other services.<br />
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6. <b><i>You’re crop quality is suffering.</i></b> Humidity, higher temperatures, poor ventilation, drips, low light levels, a difficult-to-control climate due to its smaller air mass—an old greenhouse can be a bear to grow in. Yes, maybe you or your grower have adapted to it. But it’s a rare case where someone doesn’t tell us how much better their new house grows than their old one. And does it more consistently, and with less fuss and tinkering.<br />
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7. <b><i>It makes a bad impression.</i></b> Maybe it’s not the top reason to bulldoze your greenhouse, but it’s an added benefit of doing so. Having a facility you can be proud to show off to customers says a lot about your business, and it inspires confidence in you and your staff. An added benefit is in hiring new staff, especially higher-level staff. A new head grower, when faced with equal opportunities, will probably pick the more modern facility (unless you’ve spent so much on the greenhouse that you have no money left for staff).<br />
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8. <b><i>You can depreciate it.</i></b> In addition to all the savings above, Uncle Sam will also help pay for your new greenhouse through the tax savings of depreciation. Suppose you spend $1 million on a new greenhouse. With seven years to depreciate it, you can deduct 1/7th of that ($142,857) from your annual cost of sales, reducing your potential tax liability.<br />
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Suppose you gross $2 million, and your cost of sales is $1.5 million, leaving $500,000 as taxable income. Add the depreciation to your cost of sales, and your taxable income drops to $358,000. If the tax rate on that is 34%, you will pay $48,571 less in taxes (34% of your depreciation value). Over seven years of depreciation, at those figures, you’ll pocket $340,000 of your original $1 million investment.<br />
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9. <b><i>You need to relocate.</i></b> Thousands of horticulture businesses that used to be in the middle of nowhere are today surrounded by million-dollar homes. That means two things: 1) Land values have soared (even considering today’s real estate slump) and urbanization makes it tough to maintain an agriculture business.<br />
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Florida’s Kraft Gardens is a perfect example. Kevin Kraft did an article for GrowerTalks several years ago describing his company’s move from Deerfield Beach to Ft. Pierce, 100 miles to the north. “By the late 1980s, I knew our Deerfield Beach facility was becoming untenable due to the urbanization of the area,” he wrote. “On three sides of the property we had commercial, industrial and retirement community neighbors. The fourth side was scheduled to become a six-lane highway. Delivery trucks, pesticide and herbicide odors and water runoff made our existence increasingly difficult in the heart of the Boca Raton/Deerfield Beach urban community.”<br />
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However, he also found that his 40 acres of raw agriculture land wouldn’t sell for enough to finance the construction of the new facility. So he rezoned the land himself. “The effort was worth it,” Kevin wrote. “When the platting was completed, the property was worth 30% more than before re-zoning, which was sufficient to relocate the facility and provide a fair return on the investment.”<br />
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10. <b><i>You want the business to be strong for the next generation.</i></b> While you don’t want to saddle the next generation with debt, it will never be cheaper to upgrade your facilities. While loans aren’t easy to come by, money is cheap, and today’s modern greenhouse designs, such as <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/structures/open-roof/" target="_blank">open-roof houses</a>, will last for generations, are inexpensive to operate, and will grow any crop. Rather than battling the facilities, your kids can focus on sales and marketing—which will be the most important skill set for the next generation of greenhouse owners.<br />
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In the past year, Rough Brothers Greenhouses, a high-end structures supplier, has broadened its product offerings through acquisition, purchasing the assets of both X.S. Smith and Golden Pacific Structures. The strategy serves a couple of purposes for the company, says Commercial Manager <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/sales-reps/tom-vezdos" target="_blank">Tom Vezdos</a>.<br />
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“We wanted to be able to cover the U.S. with sales reps. Now we’re able to cover the southern parts of the country we were never able to effectively get to before,” he says. “And we want to be able to provide a structure to everybody in the greenhouse business.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.xssmith.com/" target="_blank">X.S. Smith</a> and <a href="http://www.gpstructures.com/" target="_blank">Golden Pacific</a> traditionally offered lighter, less expensive greenhouse structures, so adding these product lines gave Rough a more complete spectrum of offerings.<br />
“Somebody might just want a Quonset, or they may want a poly arch or an A frame. On the higher end, someone may want a Venlo or an open-roof structure. Quite often, a customer might have all three levels in their operation, so we want to offer all three,” he says.<br />
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Those new structure types are important as Rough looks to move south. X.S. Smith’s structures were built with round tubing, which is a little less robust, but also less expensive. They’re a good complement to the sturdier square-tubing structures used by Rough and Golden Pacific.<br />
“The farther south you go, the lighter the structure you’re more likely to sell because they don’t have the same snow load requirements. That’s why we had to do these moves in conjunction,” Vezdos says. “We had to expand the market we wanted to touch geographically, but we also had to expand our products to get into that lighter-weight structure.”<br />
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That’s half of the strategy Rough is pursuing these days. The other half is focusing on internal growing systems for the vegetable market. The economic conditions of the last four or five years have created a slowdown for structures suppliers on the floriculture side.<br />
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“There’s consolidation going on with growers in the floriculture market. Deals are being made, land is being bought, and with that land comes greenhouses. I think it’s putting people a little more in a renovation mindset than a build mindset,” Vezdos says. “The vegetable market is one of the areas of the market that’s growing. We’re working on vegetable projects that are from 25 acres down to a half acre."<br />
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The end result for Rough Brothers should be a higher profile nationally and a wider segment of growers to work with.<br />
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“People in the Southern states are going to be seeing us a lot more. And I think some people didn’t consider Rough Brothers in the past because they thought we sold only the Cadillac and didn’t sell a Chevy,” Vezdos says. “So now we have new customers, we have new products to offer existing customers, and you have the whole new market with vegetables that’s entering into the greenhouse business.”<br />
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Source : http://www.greenhousegrower.com/structures-equipment/greenhouses/rough-brothers-adds-two-product-lines/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-46828502499521140332014-10-13T13:16:00.001-04:002014-11-14T08:59:45.575-05:00The Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory Opens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.lauritzengardens.org/" target="_blank">The Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory</a>, Omaha’s new, world-class conservatory, opens Saturday, October 11. In its entirety, the new addition adds almost 20,000 square feet to the existing visitor and education center, including 17,500 square feet of indoor space for horticultural displays. It will usher in a new era of horticulture for the Omaha metropolitan area and for the surrounding region and will be a place where plants will burst with life year-round. From lush tropical gardens with soaring palms and vibrant flowers to temperate gardens with moss-covered live oak trees and blooming azaleas, the conservatory will be a spectacular addition to our cultural landscape for all four seasons.<br />
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The $31.2 million project marks a collaboration between the architecture and engineering firm HDR, Inc., the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/services/conservatory-design/" target="_blank">conservatory consultants Rough Brothers, Inc</a>., landscape architecture firm CG Studios, Inc., the general contractor Peter Kiewit & Sons, Inc. and Heritage Services, Inc., who led the fundraising effort, provided design and construction oversight, project administration and donor stewardship.<br />
The extraordinatory efforts and exceptional generosity of those involved with creating these gardens under glass are truly remarkable,” said Spencer Crews, executive director of Lauritzen Gardens. “The Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory will be a place for the community to enjoy year-round and will further our efforts to create a botanical garden with a deep sense of place- both to display, educate and celebrate plants that are native to our part of the country, and plants that are seldom seen in our region.”<br />
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The Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory is a fitting tribute to an avid gardener and a woman who did much to cultivate growth throughout her life. The Robert B. Daugherty Foundation provided a generous lead gift to name the conservatory in honor of Robert’s late wife Marjorie (Marge), to honor the powerful connection that she had to nature and to the Omaha community. “This decision to honor our mother in this way was a natural one,” said Tim Daugherty. “Spending time in the garden and in nature gave her such joy and she had a deep-rooted interest in Lauritzen Gardens.”<br />
The Robert B. Daugherty Foundation joined with many others in the community to generously support the effort.<br />
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“The many individuals and organizations that have supported this endeavor deserve our community’s deepest gratitude,” said Randy Blackburn, president of the Lauritzen Gardens board of directors. “Thanks to them, Omaha now has a four-season destination for horticulture, which will continue to provide memorable educational and aesthetic experiences for all.”<br />
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The addition of the conservatory significantly increases Lauritzen Gardens’ indoor display space and transforms the garden into a destination for all twelve months of the year. The conservatory will provide a lush, green oasis for visitors, even during the stark, bare Nebraska winter. “Though we’ve only just completed our thirteenth year of full-scale operations, the opening of the conservatory represents the garden becoming a mature public horticultural institution,” said Crews. “A conservatory raises the garden’s profile and Omaha’s profile, both regionally and nationally.”<br />
Entrance to the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory will be included with paid garden admission of $10 for adults, $5 for children 6-12 and free for children under 6 and garden members. It will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during regular hours of operation, and will be closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day.<br />
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The forms found in the tropical heliconia flower, as well as Lauritzen Gardens’ own logo inspired the exterior design of the conservatory. Taking the logo’s arched shape as a base point, the conservatory emerges from the hillside in a series of extrusions, each smaller than the previous. The different bays all feature canopies that overhang in alternating directions, mimicking the organic shapes seen in a budding heliconia, and the ridgelines all angle upwards, to visually evoke the idea of growth from the hillside. Though simplistic in its materials, the steel framing and 12,000 glass panels will allow the conservatory to function as an optimal plant growing environment, to foster plants that would not survive in our local climate. The conservatory is designed to complement the existing visitor and education center, using similar elements such as natural stone and stucco to seamlessly weave the visitor and education center and the conservatory into the green tapestry of the garden.<br />
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With the visual appearance the glass structure is growing from the hillside, the conservatory’s uniqueness lies in the gradual twenty-foot rise in elevation that visitors experience from the entry to the northern end. This provides surprises around every corner, including a ten-foot waterwall, dramatic glimpses of the contrasting conservatory plantings, a large pool with exotic water plants- and culminates with an outlook over the beautiful Missouri River valley and the entrance to the garden’s woodland trail, a century-old forest in the middle of the city.<br />
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Unlike most conservatories today, which interpret ecosystems or focus on specific plant communities, the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory will focus on what Lauritzen Gardens does best, gardens. Older conservatories were built as garden settings or plant collections of exotic plants that were displayed in a gardenesque way. The interior of the conservatory at Lauritzen Gardens is inspired by these historical conservatories, and is designed to showcase the beauty of a traditional garden in the southern United States in the 5,300 sq. ft. temperate house and collections of elegantly displayed tropical plants in the 10,000 sq. ft. tropical house. A 2,000 sq. ft. gallery space for unique floral displays and private/special events makes up the remainder of the conservatory space.<br />
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PROJECT BACKGROUND<br />
The development and opening of the conservatory realizes a vision established by the garden’s founders in the early 1980s. Their plan included outdoor garden areas that celebrated native plants, but also included the idea of a dramatic four-season conservatory that would contain a fantastic collection of unusual plant life, not native to our area and seldom seen by our community. In 1996, the conservatory became a permanent part of the garden’s master plan for growth. In 2010, a feasibility study was conducted that assessed the need and viability for a conservatory in Omaha. The results launched the efforts that led to the building of the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory. Heritage Services, Inc started the fundraising campaign in 2011. New plans were drawn by HDR, Inc. in 2012. Ground was broken on the project in April 2013, with site preparation and construction beginning right afterward.<br />
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WOODLAND TRAIL REOPENS<br />
The opening of the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory also marks the re-opening of the ten-acre woodland trail, Lauritzen Gardens’ century-old grove of bur oak forest. The paved paths inside the conservatory will culminate at the new entrance of the woodland trail, allowing easy access for visitors. The woodland trail provides an escape into unfettered nature with the convenience of a mulched path, winding past a native plant community that includes: American hophornbeam, gooseberry, Kentucky coffee tree, shagbark hickory, and other plants of interest, creating a dramatic contrast to the cultivated garden areas. The woodland trail also provides incredible panoramic views of the Loess Hills, Missouri River and Omaha skyline.<br />
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Lauritzen Gardens is an urban oasis of beauty and tranquility. This 100-acre botanical garden, comprised of several outdoor garden areas, creates a living museum of unique four-season plant displays, maintained to the highest standards consistent with environmental stewardship.<br />
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Lauritzen Gardens is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the café serves lunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Admission to Lauritzen Gardens is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages six to 12 and free for members and children younger than six years old.<br />
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Lauritzen Gardens is conveniently located in the beautiful riverfront hills at First and Bancroft Streets and is close to the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium and the Old Market. For more information, please visit http://www.lauritzengardens.org or call (402) 346-4002.<br />
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The greenhouse facility in the Department of Biological Sciences at Western Michigan University was made possible by the generous gift of Francis and Geraldine Finch of Schoolcraft, Michigan.<br />
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Manufactured by <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/research-greenhouses/" target="_blank">Rough Brothers</a> and completed on the WMU campus at Wood Hall in the summer of 1997, this <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/educational-greenhouses/" target="_blank">state-of-the-art greenhouse facility</a> provides faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct plant, plant-insected and related research in a controlled environment.<br />
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<li>Providing quality state-of-the-art space and services to the faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences conducting plant related research. Priority for space and services are given to the faculty and students in the Department of Biological Sciences.</li>
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<li>Natural Areas Program by starting nearly 20,000 Michigan native perennial seedlings which have been planted on the main campus, Kleinstock Preserve and at Gibbs House.</li>
<li>Office for Sustainability by providing space and services early in the year to grow high-quality plants and start hundreds of vegetable seedlings that are planted at the Gibbs House and the Stadium Drive Community Garden.</li>
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They then flourish into petunias. Or maybe tomatoes. Or basil, all used for research and classwork.<br />
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The two--year--old greenhouse is 28,250--square--foot living laboratory that allows students and professors to recreate how plants live in certain environments and study how particular conditions affect growth, reproduction and nutrient uptake.<br />
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The head house, approximately 9,250 square feet, includes 5,950 square feet for wet and dry lab spaces, two academic classrooms, an office and support spaces.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">greenhouse</a> has 16 different bays, which allow for separately controlled environments where certain conditions -- such as drought and variable lighting -- can be applied and measured.<br />
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Researchers can adjust environments to suit their studies: One scholar may be looking to see how humidity affects peonies, while another might be looking at how a harsh environment -- such as a hot pavement, where many retail plants are sold -- affects their water usage uptake.<br />
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"The research that students and faculty are able to conduct in the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/research-greenhouses/" target="_blank">greenhouse</a> echoes similar conditions that producers will see in the industry," Waterland said.<br />
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WVU works with major companies to test products in various conditions to evaluate their results. Those can then be used to shape the product.<br />
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"For certain research, we can place plants under harsh conditions, such as drier climate, and evaluate the plants' performance and response," Waterland said. "The end goal is to develop products that allow horticulturist to grow healthier plants for a variety of conditions."<br />
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Sarah Mills, a master's horticulture student, uses the greenhouse to grow plants used for her climate change research.<br />
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"Without the greenhouse, I would not be able to control my environmental conditions, so it is vital," she said in the release. "It also provides undergraduate students opportunities for hands-on experience through classes, labs and independent study."<br />
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In addition to research, the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/teaching-greenhouses/" target="_blank">greenhouse</a> is also used for teaching, primarily serving the Division of Plant & Soil Sciences and Forestry within the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.<br />
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"The greenhouse often becomes a 'home-away-from-home' for students in the horticulture program -- and we strongly encourage this," Sue Myers, greenhouse manager, said in the relesae.<br />
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Approximately 35 students in the horticulture program -- which graduates seven or eight students each year -- and two to four faculty members, along with about 12 faculty in agronomy, entomology, forestry and biology, often use the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/research-greenhouses/" target="_blank">greenhouse for research</a>, but also as part of classroom requirements or laboratory components.<br />
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"Every semester, there is a large number of students -- at least 200 -- who use the greenhouse for the Division of Plant & Soil Sciences classes and labs," Myers said. "Another important use of this greenhouse is for special topics and independent study students who need to use this facility to do more in-depth study of a topic or to get hands-on experience in a particular area. In this way, the greenhouse is an invaluable tool and resource for students who want to take advantage of it."<br />
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Several hundred plant species are in the greenhouse collection, and that number is always changing, Myers said.<br />
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The greenhouse is home to a plastic house, where plants -- like pineapple, lemon, cacao, banana and coffee -- are kept for demonstration purposes. It also serves as a space for the Horticulture Club to host public plant sales.<br />
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Other teaching endeavors include giving tours to garden clubs, grade schools, junior high groups and other groups with a special interest in plants.<br />
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"People from the community often call with plant questions, both for indoor plants and outdoor garden plants," Myers said. "The classrooms have been used for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes, such as Bonsai. Landscape architecture faculty do their special program in garden design here each summer. And the Master Gardeners, through the Extension Service, have been extremely important to the greenhouse for many years."<br />
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The greenhouse also provides plants for flowerbeds around campus and larger plants for University events. Flowers from the greenhouse end up at commencement and occasionally at the Blaney House.<br />
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"Because we are so visible, and especially so with our beautiful new <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/educational-greenhouses/" target="_blank">greenhouse</a>, we may in some ways be the public face of Plant and Soil Sciences -- a responsibility we take very seriously," Myers said.<br />
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The Evansdale Greenhouse is the first completed facility in a multi-year, $159.5 million building plan to remake the Evansdale Campus. The previous <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/services/construction-and-installation/" target="_blank">greenhouse, constructed in the 1960s</a>, had reached the end of its lifespan and Jim "Apples" McClelland initiated transforming the space with a gift to the project.<br />
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This construction was a collaboration between the Davis College and the USDA Forest Service, which occupies office, laboratory and growth space in the facility.<br />
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McClelland, a longtime supporter of WVU's horticulture program, contributed funds for equipping two state-of-the-art classroom spaces; John and Joyce Allen contributed funds for the development of the student lounge space; and The West Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association contributed funds for equipping and decorating the conference room.<br />
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Private contributions in support of the Evansdale Greenhouse were made through the WVU Foundation, a private non-profit corporation that generates and provides support for WVU. In June, the Foundation launched A State of Minds: The Campaign for West Virginia's University. The $750 million comprehensive campaign runs through December 2015.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-76618375378175113222014-09-02T15:38:00.000-04:002014-09-25T15:51:12.239-04:00New Greenhouse Will Allow Space for Cutting Edge Researchers<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" seamless="seamless" src="http://www.klewtv.com/news/local/275786531.html?embed" width="560"></iframe>
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PULLMAN, WA – Washington State University is currently building a new facility with <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/research-greenhouses/" target="_blank">20,000 square feet of greenhouse and research</a> space.<br />
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It is the result of a partnership between WSU, the Washington Grain Commission which provided $5 million towards the project, and the US Department of Agriculture which is providing important equipment for the building.<br />
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“There have been changes in the technology that relate to wheat breeding that mean that you can do a lot of things a lot faster if you incorporate more greenhouse steps in your breeding procedures,” said Michael Kahn, Associate Director for the WSU Agricultural Research Center. “And so that’s what we’re trying to do.”<br />
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This is the first phase of a three phase project. The second phase includes another greenhouse building that will need legislature’s approval and the third phase will replace the dated greenhouses along Grimes Way.<br />
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Source : http://www.klewtv.com/news/local/275786531.htmlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-1413658052045631932014-08-22T09:23:00.000-04:002014-08-22T09:23:57.804-04:00Sustainable Research Greenhouse<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Whether for educational research or private research, creating sustainable research greenhouse designs takes considerable forethought and pre-planning.<br />
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A truly sustainable research greenhouse has a strong design effort behind it. The completed greenhouse needs to deliver the performance expected and required by the researcher, faculty or student. The challenge is to create a research greenhouse that provides for optimal functionality, but doesn't sacrifice the sustainability factor along the way.<br />
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Design considerations are many when setting about to design, engineer, manufacture, construct and then occupy and successfully operate a sustainable research greenhouse. Beginning with the structure itself it is pretty much an either-or question; steel or aluminum? However, as the design progresses the options and the decisions that need to be made will increase significantly. Just as examples, careful scrutiny must be given to the selection of heating and cooling systems, ventilation methods, shading & heat retention systems, supplemental plant growth lighting, misting and irrigation systems, environmental control systems. All of which can be critical components and features of a high level sustainable research greenhouse facility.<br />
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When properly selected, sized and located each of the many research greenhouse inter-connected components can lend greatly to the energy efficiency, environmental impact and longevity of the facility. It is a delicate balance of design variables that yield an enclosed and controlled indoor environment that replicates the outdoor environment, less the extremes. The greenhouse environment needs to be one which allows for the specific plant research, but with a dedicated design effort a sustainable research greenhouse design can deliver that same “plant” friendly environment of the outdoors.<br />
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Whether K-12, Vo-Ag schools, community colleges, colleges or universities, sustainable teaching, education and research design can be achieved using proven design practices that get communicated clearly and concisely in a research greenhouse specification, and accurately depicted in the associated detailed set of research greenhouse drawings.<br />
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The successful design and construction of sustainable research greenhouses for private or public research use is best achieved by teaming with the industry experts. Get the industry experts involved early, and let their ample experience help guide the process and pave the roadway to a sustainable research greenhouse.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-91722640207951553362014-08-18T10:44:00.004-04:002014-08-18T10:54:03.842-04:00Ventura Farms<span id="goog_876333722"></span><span id="goog_876333723"></span><br />
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Ventura Farms is a private residence in Thousand Oaks, CA with a conservatory of 14,000 square feet and a production greenhouse of 24,000 square feet.<br />
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This <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">Rough Brothers design project</a> was conceived in August 2000, and ground broken in June 2001. Rough Brothers was working onsite August 2001, with completion of the project in April 2002. The total duration of the Ventura Farms project was 20 months.<br />
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<b><i>Contract Scope</i></b><br />
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What plant person hasn't dreamed of having the ultimate hobby greenhouse in their backyard -- a place to relax and enjoy flowers and plants without the distractions of business? Stop dreaming, because the ultimate house has now officially been built. Anything you build will be small potatoes.</div>
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Or maybe we should say bananas, because the ultimate backyard greenhouse was built by David H. Murdock, chairman of Dole Foods. His recently completed conservatory and greenhouse cost in excess of $5 million and covers just under an acre. That's more than $130 per square foot.<br />
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Mr. Murdock, an orchid enthusiast for some 30 years, decided he needed a greenhouse for them at his California ranch, Ventura Farms. A greenhouse would be a nice spot to do some entertaining, as well.<br />
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What started out as plans for a modest 20 ft. by 30 ft. orchid house are a 14,000 sq. ft. conservatory and a 24,000 sq. ft. Venlo-style production greenhouse for raising flowers and vegetables for the ranch.<br />
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Rough Brothers of Cincinnati, Ohio, built both structures. (Rough also recently completed the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/maintenance/conservatory-restoration/" target="_blank">restoration of the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory</a>). Most spectacular is the conservatory, which serves as home for Mr. Murdock's collection of 20,000 orchids, and as a ballroom for entertaining. Imported marble was carefully cut and numbered, then laid in place so it again resembles one solid piece. Crystal chandeliers provide mood lighting for special events. Wings off the ballroom house the orchid collection on custom-built tiered benches.<br />
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The production house will be used to grow color for the ranch, along with fruits and vegetables for Mr. Murdock's personal use. In addition, they'll use it to showcase nutritional research that he funds through various universities. The ballroom is large enough to host conferences.<br />
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It takes a special person to run such a facility, that's Mike Owen, conservatory manager. Mike comes from a 24-year stint with Longwood Gardens, where he started as a student in 1975. He started consulting on the project in 1999, blending the technical and aesthetic aspects of the design. Mike says that, while they've only had plants in the facility since about May 1, he can already tell it creates a beautiful growing environment. "It's going to be spectacular."<br />
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(Oh, these giant stones? They weigh up to 80 tons each and were dug by hand from the river Kwai. Not your ordinary garden accent.)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-30323859585702437432014-07-14T11:12:00.001-04:002014-10-23T13:05:34.534-04:00Meet Commercial Greenhouse Manufacturer, Rough Brothers at Cultivate14<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/" target="_blank">Rough Brother's</a> agricultural experts, structural engineers and executives will be on hand to answer your questions about greenhouse structures and evolving technologies in a growing industry.<br />
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Rough Brothers, Inc. is exhibiting at Cultivate14 from July 12-14, 2014, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, OH. Be sure to visit RBI (booth #2107) in the main exhibit hall.<br />
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RBI is displaying its <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/products/venlo/" target="_blank">Venlo structure</a> along with various other prototype structure samples. There will be a lot to learn about grow towers and grow lights. RBIs agricultural experts, structural engineers and executives will be on hand to answer your questions about greenhouse structures and evolving technologies in a growing industry.<br />
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Leveraging more than 80 years of experience in the commercial design-build specialty structures market, RBI works with its clients to identify the most economical, durable and robust solution for <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/" target="_blank">commercial greenhouse structures</a>. Rough Brothers in-house design & engineering staff are anxious to help you design, engineer, manufacture and build cost effective and sustainable commercial greenhouse facilities.<br />
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Cultivate 2014 is where you learn the latest trends, see the latest products, and connectface to facewith the people you usually only meet online or over the phone. This is the largest horticultural industry event in North America, serving every segment from production and retail to installation and suppliers. So it's only natural that when you're here, you'll find the answers to all of your business questions, and all the solutions you need to grow. This is where companies debut their latest and greatest products and services, and the entire industry comes to see what they've never seen before.<br />
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<b><i><u>About Rough Brothers, Inc. (RBI)</u></i></b><br />
Rough Brothers, Inc. has designed engineered, manufactured and constructed greenhouses and related systems since 1932. For over 80 years, the company has provided the highest quality, best-crafted and most reliable greenhouse structures to the most successful growers, educators, researchers and exhibitors in the industry. Known for high quality greenhouse structures and fully integrated greenhouse systems including material handling systems, heating, cooling, ventilation, irrigation systems and environmental controls, the company is the leading structures and systems company in North America.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-59261491868732086152014-04-01T13:51:00.003-04:002014-10-23T13:07:42.008-04:00Greenhouse Types<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Once you make up your mind to build a greenhouse the next major decision is what type of greenhouse you should select. This will be an easy decision if you are aware of what plans you want to grow and a rough quantity. However if you provide answers to below questions it'll be an easy decision.</div>
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For what purpose the greenhouse is used? For growing , for Luxury living or anything else?</div>
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<li>*Will it be a major appeal in my garden or I just need to get the work done?</li>
<li>*Is it exposed to strong wind or other noticeable weather conditions</li>
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Features , cost and space will help you decide on the best <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">type of greenhouse</a> you need to build for your purpose. As an example if you live in a very windy area it's better paying up a little extra to build a much more strong hard and well-built greenhouse. However if warmth is the main feature you should focus on a greenhouse with temperature control. Greenhouses differ based on the structural design as well.</div>
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There are commonly three types of greenhouses based on the structure:</div>
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<li>* Detached</li>
<li>* Ridge and furrow or gutter connected.</li>
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<b><u>Detached Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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Same as the name detached greenhouses are a self-governing and stand alone individual arrangement. They can still be connected to a work area or to another greenhouse connecting pathway. However the growing area is restricted to the areas just around the side walls and it will weaken the productivity and efficiency.<br />
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<b><u>Ridge/Furrow Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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These are the greenhouse types that are attached at the lower ends of the roof by a gutter. These ridge and furrow greenhouses are mostly built with gabled or curved archways. Gabled greenhouses are generally suitable for heavy coverings such as glass, fiberglass and curved arch greenhouses are mostly enclosed with lighter material such as polyethylene.<br />
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<b><u>Lean-To Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Large Lean-To Greenhouse</td></tr>
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This is a very rarely used greenhouse for commercial purposes due to the size restrictions, however this is mostly popular for personal use.<br />
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There are three types of greenhouses based on the temperature control feature:<br />
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<li>Cool greenhouse</li>
<li>Warm greenhouse</li>
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<b><u>Cool Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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Even though it's called a cool greenhouse this is a frost free greenhouse. There is a pleasant spring type temperature series from forty to forty five degrees Fahrenheit . This is however perfect for growing little plantlets or any plants that do not need any warm temperatures to stay alive. This is ideal if you are planning to start growing during hot summer months and use of additional heat or lights isn't necessary for a cool greenhouse.<br />
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<b><u>Warm Greenhouse</u></b><br />
Inside a warm greenhouse the temperature is maintained at about fifty five degrees Fahrenheit. This will be an ideal temperature for a wide variety of plants can be grown, and gives the feeling of an outdoor garden. These types require additional warmth and light throughout the cold winter months.<br />
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<b><u>Hot Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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Inside warmth for a hot greenhouse is kept at a minimum of sixty five degrees Fahrenheit. You are able to increase the temperature of this, however as this is mainly targeted to grow tropical and exotic plants and if you live in a very cold and snowy state, you will need to set up additional heating and lighting gear to implement the tropical weather requirements inside the greenhouse.<br />
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Greenhouses can be also classified according to the types of materials material they are made of. As an example glass, fiberglass, or plastic each will have it's own set of type has advantages and disadvantages.<br />
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<b><u>Glass Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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This is the most traditional type of greenhouse covering material used. This mainly comes with Aluminum structures to ensure that you get a weather tight greenhouse structure. These Glass covering greenhouses comes in different sizes and shapes to meet the requirements such as budget and space availability. However the main disadvantage of a Glass Greenhouse is it's easily breakable and due to that there will be a high maintenance cost. <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/products/glasshouse/" target="_blank">visit here</a> for more details.<br />
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<b><u>Fiberglass Greenhouse</u></b><br />
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Fiberglass is modern and used in many industries for various uses now a days in the industry. These greenhouses are Not heavy as the glass greenhouses, they are strong not easily breakable and even hail proof. However as a disadvantage low quality fiberglass will discolour when it's exposed to sun and rain for some time hence if you are using a good fiber glass it'll be expensive same as the glass greenhouse.<br />
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These are lightweight and cheap and transparentness is readily available as well. When properly installed, these can last for about a period of five to six years. These normally works well during Autumn and Winter but when it is the hot summer period the polyethylene/plastic will easily be damaged. However this is widely used for personal use than for commercial use. <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/systems/curtain-system/" target="_blank">Visit here</a> for more details.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-27327760584255902682014-03-28T11:07:00.004-04:002014-10-23T13:06:22.821-04:00The Advantages of Working with Rough Brothers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Greenhouse growers throughout North America use Rough Brothers Inc. as their trusted source for greenhouse and related technical services such as <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">greenhouse design</a>, construction, and maintenance. Because of their customer loyalty, customer made us one of the largest suppliers of commercial greenhouse in the North America. Our customers count on us to be their partners in their greenhouse businesses, knowing that with each collaborate; they get reliable customer service & state of the art technical expertise.<br />
Here are some of the great advantages you’ll find when you make Rough Brothers your greenhouse partner:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-85644716595598149512014-03-27T13:27:00.001-04:002014-03-27T13:29:32.025-04:00A Quick Glance Into A Greenhouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>What is a greenhouse?</b><br />
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Yes the first question is what is a Greenhouse? It is a building formation where plants such as fruits, vegetables, flowers are grown in right warmth. It magnetize warmth from the sun and inside a greenhouse sun’s electromagnetic radiation warms the plants, soil, and other components within the greenhouse to provide a pleasant environment for growing. Not only for growing outdoor warm swimming pools too can be built within a greenhouse to be used during cold winter days.<br />
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<b>How the greenhouse ideas first popped?</b><br />
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The very first greenhouse idea goes back to the days of the Romans. They were the very first set of people who created formations to protect their plants. They used heated pits and used rock slabs to form the prehistoric greenhouses they used.<br />
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In the 17th and 18th centuries the word “glasshouse” which is the correct name of this formation, was adopted.<br />
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At that time, they made a mistake by believing that heat was more important to the plans than light. Due to this many structures were built to exclude the entry of light, but by the time the glass tax of 1845 was eliminated, the designs of these early stage greenhouses started to change rapidly.<br />
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Greenhouse builders realized that a curved roof as a replacement for of a flat one permitted high absorption of the sun’s rays and by using iron as a substitute to wood, the greenhouse could be structurally stable and made capable of gripping more light.<br />
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It has been more than forty years now since the major upgrading in materials and design have been incorporated into the greenhouses, and small scale greenhouses are now very much a attribute of any home garden.<br />
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<b>Mechanism behind the greenhouse capturing heat?</b><br />
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A very special kind of glass is used in greenhouses which acts as a intermediary which selectively send out spectral frequencies.<br />
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Simply the spectral frequency can be described in terms of the principle any object in the world releases, radiates or broadcast light and the circulation of this light along an electromagnetic spectrum is determined by composition of the entity. For that reason, the special glass of a greenhouse grab energy inside the greenhouse and that supply the needed heat for the plants and the soil inside the greenhouse. This mechanism warms the air close to the ground and prevents it from rising and exiting the boundaries of the greenhouse structure. As an example, if you open a small window / vent near the top or roof of a greenhouse, the temperature drops considerably.<br />
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This happens due to the auto vent automatic cooling system which is used by greenhouses that maintains a variety of temperatures inside it. This is how greenhouses trap the electromagnetic radiation and avoid convection.<br />
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<b>The advantages of greenhouses :</b><br />
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There are many advantages of having green houses. The main advantage is the capability to expand the growing season even when the weather is getting colder. Early stage fruits, vegetables can be planted indoors and then transfer them when they have grown-up. A several additional weeks will be gained by these greenhouse owners for the growing and sowing period particularly if there is a <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/systems/heating-system/" target="_blank">heating system</a> installed in the greenhouse.<br />
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Addition to expanding the growing season to the cold season and being able to control temperature, light and moisture in a greenhouse, the farmer or gardener can sharpen their skills by getting familiar with as many diversity of plants as he can in the greenhouse. Visualize being able to grow juicy tomatoes , chilies or creating new plant kinds by this simple act of breeding.<br />
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Even if you have a limited outdoor space your garden or that is completely paved or concreted as in many apartments you can still make use of limited space by using small sized greenhouses. These are what people call “free standing” greenhouses which just takes a few square feet of space to build up and these can be even installed on small balconies or roof tops.<br />
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Greenhouses will also provide protection from the harmful elements to the plans and even from birds and animals. It also provides easy access to the elderly and disabled, given the fact that greenhouses are less physically challenging than a wide open field.<br />
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In addition to all these uses within a green house a warm summer environment can be created throughout the year for luxury lifestyles.<br />
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By design, a gutter connect greenhouse allows for relatively easy expansion of the greenhouse when additions are planned. Gutter connect greenhouses are composed of a number of "bays" or compartments running side by side along the length of the greenhouse.<br />
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Typically, these compartments are approximately 120 feet long by 21 to 25 feet wide. The production area is completely open between the bays inside the greenhouse. The roof of the entire structure consists of a number of arches, with each arch covering one bay, and the arches are connected at the gutters where one bay meets the next. The design of a gutter connect greenhouse allows for a single bay greenhouse of 2,500 feet to easily expand by the addition of more bays to cover an area of 1 hectare (2.5 acres) or more.<br />
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With a gutter connect greenhouse, the lowest parts of the roof are the gutters, the points where the adjacent arches begin and end. The trend for gutter heights in modern greenhouses is to increase, with greenhouses getting taller.<br />
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The reasons for this change are two-fold: firstly, newer vegetable crops like peppers require a higher growing environment. Peppers will often reach 3.5 meters in height during the course of the production cycle, so taller greenhouses allow for more options in crop handling and training.<br />
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Secondly, taller greenhouses allow for a larger air mass to be contained within the structure. The advantage is that a larger air mass is easier to control, with respect to maintaining an optimum environment, than a smaller air mass. Once a grower has established an environment in the larger air mass, it is easier to maintain the environment.<br />
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Typical gutter heights for modern greenhouse structures are 13 to 14 feet and are quite suitable for greenhouse pepper production. The trend for future gutter height is to increase further, with new construction designs moving to 16 to 18 feet.<br />
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There arc a number of options for greenhouse covering materials: <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/products/glasshouse/" target="_blank">glass panels</a>, polycarbonate panels and polyethylene skins. Each of the coverings has advantages and disadvantages, the main determining factors usually being the trade-off between cost and length of service. Glass is more expensive, but will generally have a longer service life than either polycarbonate or polyethylene.<br />
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The United States vegetable production greenhouses are constructed with double polyethylene sheets. Two layers of polyethylene are used, with pressurized air filling the space between the two layers to provide rigidity to the covering. The life expectancy of a polyethylene greenhouse covering is about four years.<br />
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Energy conservation is also an important factor. The covering must allow light into the greenhouse and yet reduce the heat loss from the greenhouse to the environment during the winter.<br />
New coverings are being developed that selectively exclude certain wavelengths of light and, as a result, can help in reducing insect and disease problems.<br />
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Greenhouses arrive in a different shapes and sizes with diverse functions to accommodate any kind of garden. In looking at that greenhouse to get, consider under consideration the dimensions as well as goal of your garden. Choosing the best greenhouse, whether it be a hobby greenhouse, an industrial greenhouse, a Flowerhouse Greenhouse or every other type of greenhouse, is essential so your plants can expand to their possible.<br />
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Greenhouses do the job by the differing transparency of glass to photo voltaic and thermal radiation. Glass is actually transparent to the majority of the wavelengths of solar radiation, but is definitely thick into the very much extended (thermal infrared) wavelengths introduced through the plants and also soil within the greenhouse. Solar radiation is able to enter the greenhouse, in which it truly is absorbed from the plants and even heats them up. The extended thermal wavelengths emitted by the heated plants are not able to get out by means of the glass so heat retains making up. Plastic greenhouses, however, look to get the job done as well as glass ones. The plastic isn't virtually as transparent to thermal infrared radiation since it is always to solar radiation. This valuable leads us to wonder why a greenhouse gets so sizzling on the sunny day verses a cloudy a person.<br />
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No matter whether coated or uncovered by a greenhouse, soil naturally absorbs radiation from your sun and even gets warm. The air molecules adjacent to the soil also become warm. As air gets hotter, the molecules start to become more energetic. Because they bounce approximately, they move additional apart and also increase. That tends to make the air much less dense. Meanwhile, the air previously mentioned the warm air is still cool and also denser compared to warm air following into the soil. Because the warm air is less dense, it rises and also the cooler air falls to get its put with the ground degree. The following are then normally requires in more heat from the warmed soil. This continues because the layers of warm air stack up. With no a greenhouse on the sunny day, the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/systems/heating-system/" target="_blank">heated layer of air </a>could be a mile or more thick. As the best layer gets higher inside the air as well as further more from the earth, it the moment yet again begins to cool right up until it can be back on the same temperature that it commenced at and even it when all over again begins to make it really is decent back again towards the earth to begin the cycle around once again. Also, due to the fact the warm air is stretched more than these kinds of a sizable mass, the warmth is diluted by the tremendous level of issue that has to be heated.<br />
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To the contrary, a greenhouse normally takes absent the air’s ability to develop big enough in volume to reduce its heat. The heat from your soil is limited for the layer of air trapped under the glass roof. This particular trapped air continues to get hotter throughout the day mainly because is often a restricted volume to become heated.<br />
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So why would somebody want a greenhouse? Like a greenhouse traps the warm air, furthermore, it traps the evaporated water through the soil making the greenhouse warm and humid all day, producing an ideal environment meant for plant progress. A greenhouse’s ability to warmth up may also result in the plants to overheat effortlessly. A car in the sun heats up because of the identical concepts as being a greenhouse. For that reason, it is actually clever to install ventilation to help keep the greenhouse in the sought after temperature.<br />
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Of course, we won’t be able to handle the amount of photo voltaic waves a greenhouse will acquire every single day. The quantity of sunlight varies day to day and time to time. To take care of the optimum local weather circumstances year-round, greenhouses generally include environment handle features. Most greenhouses will include a ventilation technique in order that air could be introduced when the <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/systems/heating-system/" target="_blank">greenhouse gets as well warm</a>, and a few kind of heating process for the duration of cooler months to help keep the greenhouse from receiving as well cold. As well as a ventilation technique, a greenhouse need to contain a plumbing technique to regulate the amount the plants are watered and to retain the air humid.<br />
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Greenhouses refer to special outside constructions used for safe growing of various plants, such as: vegetables (radish, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers etc.); berries (e. G. Strawberries); different flowers and others. These constructions are used mainly in the northern USA states with low temperatures in autumns and winters. As a matter of fact, a greenhouse is used to create an oasis of warm climate within small premises all year round.<br />
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Vegetables, berries, flowers, decorative bushes and other plants are grown at private gardens. Fresh groceries become more expensive; moreover, a lot of people prefer having own vegetables and berries on their dinner tables every day. <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses" target="_blank">Modern greenhouses</a> are represented by reliable constructions that ensure fresh supplies of ecologic vegetables, berries, flowers and other plants grown with no usage of detrimental supplements.<br />
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At the present time there are several types of materials available on the market that are implemented in <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/services/construction-and-installation/" target="_blank">greenhouse construction</a>. These are: tint, polycarbonate and others.<br />
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Special hard tint is widely used to cover greenhouses. It is rather elastic, easy-adjustable and comparatively inexpensive.<br />
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Condensed water has got a tendency to gather on the inside layer of greenhouse tint. At present the chemical industry has created and introduced special anti-fog greenhouse tint preventing formation of water drops that deteriorate transparency causing negative effect on plants. It must be mentioned that condensed greenhouse water falls on the leaves resulting in sunburns and/or bacterial lesions of plants. Anti-fog tint removes condensed water making it ooze away. This promotes the safety of plants and increases productivity of greenhouses.<br />
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Polycarbonate has conquered significant part of the greenhouse market. It is known to be highly efficient multipurpose material. It has got many advantages in comparison with tint. These are: better light transmission (up to 80%); better distribution of sunlight (covering the entire surface of plants including leaves and trunks); full protection from UV radiation; efficient temperature preservation and others.<br />
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The greenhouses that are made from polycarbonate have proven their better efficiency and reliability. Polycarbonate is a highly durable material that can be exposed to any temperature. Moreover, it has got high rating of heat insulation, so greenhouses covered by this synthetic material are known to be more productive.<br />
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People who are willing to buy a greenhouse are welcomed to make an online application. Potential buyers can surf through all products available on the website and select a desired one. Customers who buy greenhouses online are given more options and services. These are: to view detailed pictures and sketches of all types of greenhouses (in order to select among ready-made products or apply for an individual project); to contact online support with the purpose of clearing out difficulties (if any); to hire specialists who can install greenhouses; to read commentaries and/or recommendations of other users or experts; to pay online with any modern method (debit/credit card direct transfer, online payment systems etc.); to order delivery and many others.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-71395027627129603622014-01-24T08:46:00.000-05:002014-03-12T14:40:41.783-04:00Annual Peninsula show spotlights orchids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1Ot68j8Sqo0XW5VskZzjbSPrSV4QLbhcI9uSqFpqQ3_0PXJoRC3e-KnYdycTygoNAkBowECOktGbXXqXnhQ3jSrboo3968mrG4WJDeZfxLoi4RCrdtXCnmsNP-gmklDdHXelVeO4yir8/s1600/20140107__ssjm0126orchids-7~1_300.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1Ot68j8Sqo0XW5VskZzjbSPrSV4QLbhcI9uSqFpqQ3_0PXJoRC3e-KnYdycTygoNAkBowECOktGbXXqXnhQ3jSrboo3968mrG4WJDeZfxLoi4RCrdtXCnmsNP-gmklDdHXelVeO4yir8/s1600/20140107__ssjm0126orchids-7~1_300.JPG" height="142" width="200" /></a>Orchids are more than pretty flowers. Each one tells part of the story about how these plants have adapted to an incredible array of native environments.<br />
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For some of Todd Kennedy's orchids, the story also includes a bit of his own history.<br />
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Kennedy, who lives in San Francisco, inherited about 150 orchid plants from his parents, some of which still bloom for him today. The family first acquired orchids in 1939, Kennedy says. His mother enjoyed painting them from real life.<br />
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"They were hard to get," he says. "My grandparents had a greenhouse with what was available then." They lived in Los Gatos.<br />
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Although some orchids are natives of the Bay Area, most were rare and expensive 75 years ago. In the days before global commerce, the beautiful Phalaenopsis orchids from Taiwan were seldom seen here, though today they can be purchased at your local grocery store.<br />
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In 1946, Kennedy's parents and other orchid fanciers founded the Peninsula Orchid Society to help one another learn to grow and propagate the plants.<br />
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The group's 2014 fundraiser takes place Saturday and Sunday in Redwood City, featuring orchids grown by society members as well as commercially grown plants.<br />
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In addition to a plant sale, the show includes a competition for ribbons, featuring about 300 plants from members; it is also open to the public. Those competing must have owned their plant for at least six months to qualify. The show also presents seminars on the history and care of orchids.<br />
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Sue Rose, a former show organizer, has come to appreciate the special stories behind each orchid. Her mother cultivated Cymbidiums -- a hardy variety that can grow outdoors in the Bay Area -- when Rose was a child. Now the Cymbidiums in her own garden "bring back good memories of childhood," she says. "When I walk around out there, I think, 'Mom did this, and mom did that.' It is a warm and fuzzy feeling."<br />
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But the flowers needn't be family heirlooms to have a special back story. The huge differences in orchid varieties stem from the species' ability to adapt to a wide range of climates and locations, from the Bay Area to the tropics.<br />
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Among the orchids native to our region is the 2-foot-tall Epipactis gigantea, commonly called the stream orchid. As the name implies, it can be found along creeks and rivers where there's plenty of fresh water.<br />
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Other varieties can differ greatly. "There are species of orchids that are found in just one canyon in the Andes, for instance," Kennedy says. "They are specialized for a particular (type of) hummingbird to pollinate."<br />
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That the plants have adapted to locations so varied, but also can be grown at Bay Area homes, is part of their attraction, enthusiasts say.<br />
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The Phalaenopsis variety -- with rounded white or purple petals -- is seen today in grocery stores priced at about $15, but they used to cost hundreds of dollars each, show organizer Chaunie Langland says. "Now they clone them," she explains -- by splitting an existing plant into two or more. Growers have kept splitting and growing plants to the point where this line is very predictable and hardy, Langland says. "Even though they are inexpensive, they are highly evolved."<br />
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The opportunity to learn about orchids, either from the grower or in a seminar, is one element that makes this weekend's show an experience that can't be duplicated at a grocery store. Information covered will include whether the growing space should resemble a cold mountainside, a humid marshland or something in between -- knowledge that's essential to the successful flowering of the plant.<br />
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"Some of them are delicate, and some are very, very hardy," Langland says. "The challenge is finding out which ones you can grow" in your own home, <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">garden or greenhouse</a>.<br />
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Orchid fans don't need a lot of space to achieve spectacular results, provided they choose the right variety, Rose says. And with knowledge and patience, any grower can begin to add a bit of his own narrative to the orchid story.<br />
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"It is a wonderful thing that something so highly evolved is available to humans," Kennedy says. "You buy them, and they will bloom for you over and over." All it takes, he adds, is knowledge of the plant's needs for even a novice to succeed: Keep the jungle orchids in a humid spot, the grassland orchid in a drier spot.<br />
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"There is reason for the wonder and amazement of being able to have these beautiful flowers," Kennedy says, as newcomers to the 2014 show may discover.<br />
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Peninsula Orchid Society flower show and sale.<br />
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When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday<br />
Where: Community Activities Building, 1400 Roosevelt Ave., Redwood City<br />
Admission: $5; $3 seniors and those ages 12 to 16; those 11 and younger get in free<br />
Information: http://penorchidsoc.org<br />
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By Leslie Griffy<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-46963815033122326242014-01-23T11:31:00.002-05:002014-07-08T08:19:47.213-04:00Greenhouse Introduction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>What is a greenhouse? </b><br />
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A greenhouse is a structure where live plants such as flowers, fruits, vegetables are grown. This can be made with glass, wood or cement. Greenhouse often comes with heat because the sun rays warm the plants air, soil, and other relevant components within the greenhouse. Hot Air is coming to interior area inside the structure through the roof and wall.<br />
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<b><a href="http://greenhousegrowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/the-greenhouse-microclimate/" target="_blank">How does a greenhouse work</a>? </b><br />
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Normally heating greenhouses use a special made glass. It acts as a medium which selectively transmits spectral frequencies. Any object in the universe emits, radiates or transmits light. The distribution of this light along an electromagnetic spectrum is determined by the object’s composition. Therefore, the glass of a greenhouse traps energy within the greenhouse and the heat in turn provides heat for the plants as well as the ground inside the greenhouse. It warms the air and the ground, preventing it from rising and leaving the confines of the structure.<br />
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<b>Why do you need a greenhouse?</b><br />
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Just want to make it for a hobby? Homeowners attach greenhouses to their homes. Even <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/research-teaching-and-educational-greenhouses/services/institutional-greenhouses/" target="_blank">schools have greenhouses</a> built by elementary and high school students. Finally, the wholesome taste of a home grown tomato! Everyone knows there is a difference. If greenhouses can save our lives, we may, at some point in time, consider the idea of building one soon, a first step towards self-sufficiency.<br />
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Once you decide that you want to build a greenhouse (<a href="http://www.roughbros.com/conservatories-and-botanical-gardens/estate-gardens-design/" target="_blank">garden greenhouse</a> or <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/commercial-greenhouses/" target="_blank">commercial greenhouse</a>), you have to decide next <a href="http://www.agchemprice.com/benefits-in-having-a-greenhouse/" target="_blank">what type to greenhouse build</a>. This is not a big problem if you know what kinds of plants you want to grow.<br />
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<li>Is my garden exposed to strong snow, winds and water?</li>
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Factors such as cost and space will determine the type of greenhouse you build. If you do live in a snow area, such as Midwest or Northwest it may be worth to spend the extra bucks for a metal and solid greenhouse. If you want to get prices about greenhouse and related services <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">Rough Brothers</a> is best places to start. Our Sales team should be able to provide you with valuable information before you make a final decision.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364437700710961667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303735675439396304.post-27813018656445656962014-01-22T08:49:00.002-05:002014-03-12T14:44:52.234-04:00How to design your Garden Greenhouse - 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When <a href="http://www.roughbros.com/" target="_blank">designing your garden greenhouse</a> always choose shrubs and trees that suit your climate and the scale of your property as they will require less maintenance, and give you more time to relax and enjoy your greenhouse. Never buy shrubs or trees with roots protruding from the base of their pot, or plants with a lot of top growth and side shoots for the size of their pot, no matter how cheap they are. Advanced specimens come in larger pots, and plants in the correct pot for their size will grow faster when transplanted because their roots have not been restricted. Reputable nurseries take good care of their stock, and repot when necessary. Paying a little more for an advanced specimen of a slow-growing cultivar could be cheaper than having to replace shrubs or trees bought cheaply at a travelling market.<br />
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Don’t forget to include some trees in your garden greenhouse, if possible. Trees have longer roots and can draw nutrient minerals from deeper in the soil. Nutrients, cellulose and lignins are shed as flowers, leaves and bark, continuing nature’s cycle of returning organic matter to the topsoil for the benefit of future growth. We know that when trees are removed soil salinity and soil erosion increase, yet we continue to clear land in the name of commercial enterprise, providing conditions for more deserts in the future.<br />
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When considering which trees to plant, remember that large trees also have large roots that can cause damage to plumbing, foundations and your garden greenhouse when planted in unsuitable areas. Large trees also cast a lot of shade, limiting the growth of sun-loving plants in small gardens.<br />
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All trees modify the climate in your garden greenhouse to some extent. Small trees may not cast large areas of shade, but they do help to keep your garden greenhouse warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Trees have such an important influence on their environment that clearing large quantities of trees can reduce rainfall over a broad area.<br />
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