Ohio outdoor greenhouse

I am planning on buying a farm but the owners are willing to let me use the greenhouse and field before my current lease is up so i can have a season. Anyways, how should one prepare a 50ft x 20 ft greenhouse for maximum crop coverage

First things first, with any new structure you need to clean it well and I would sulfur vape it as well to eliminate any powdery mildew spores.

Next you need to figure out how you are gonna grow. I am a hydro guy so for me it would be rolling benches with flood and drain, probably go with heated benches.

If you are doing one crop for the year and germing now, plan on about 2lbs per plant if you know what you're doing. I'd leave about 8X8 feet for each plant, maybe 100 gallons of soil per plant, 16 total, two rows of 8. Later start or multi-crops then obviously the math changes and you'll have smaller pots and more of them. So you gotta start with what you expect to end up with and plan accordingly. Hot shot pest strips rock in a greenhouse if you close it up at night. Good luck!

XDabxdoubx said:

I am planning on buying a farm but the owners are willing to let me use the greenhouse and field before my current lease is up so i can have a season. Anyways, how should one prepare a 50ft x 20 ft greenhouse for maximum crop coverage

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You got room for 12 plants max,i run 6 in a 20x30 an its packed, I would dig some planting holes with lots of compost, plus lots of netting fill it up easy with 12 plants. I pull 20-25 lbs out of mine.