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Re: New Green house getting hot

SQFT@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU wrote:
>
> Our warm days and mildly cool nights have been great for gardening, but my
> hoophouse greenhouse is getting pretty warm during the day. We open the
> door at one end and the large window at the opposite, but still get's hot.
> The dimensions are 9 X 12, covered with corregated plastic material.
>
> I hose down the gravel floor, in the afternoon to cool it off.  Guess it's
> time to put up shade cloth.  If anyone has some suggestions for a newbie
> greenhouser, they would be appreciated.  Would prefer not to have to use
> shade cloth.
>
> Pam
>
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Try building a cooling tower at the end.... water dripping over a wick
with the wind blowing across it really cools things down. I saw on in a
delapidated Hydroponics greenhouse the other day.

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