5 Basic Greenhouse Farming Tips for the Beginners
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil and you’re a thousandmiles away from the cornfield.”
This quote from the great Dwight D. Eisenhower saddened me a bit initially when I had just thought of taking my indoor greenhouse farming hobby as the source of passive income– apologies to Mr. Eisenhower. But you know what? When I actually jumped into the field I realized he was actually right.
Farming is way far tougher than dealing with your bullying boss, hunter wife, and stubborn kids. Being a normal individual, not having even a single idea about farming, I had to go through a lot during my beginning days, but as we say, “practice makes a man perfect” I learned it too.
And now, with my experience here I am gonna mark down a quintessential information about greenhouse or greenhouse farming. This is exclusive, mind it! So let’s go…
1. Find a profitable crop
Before you start farming you have to find out the product which is more profitable. Of course, if you are doing it for money (just like me) you’ll have to think like a businessman. Most farmers, irrespective considering its profit margin, believe that the crops they are growing are most profitable and they carelessly stick to it. According to the farmers, microgreens (greens & herbs) are the most preferable while I found that cannabis is comparatively better.
2. Cannabis, Cannabis, Cannabis
Here is good news for you. Here I am gonna unearth a money minting machine for you. You will be excited to know that farmers growing Cannabis are generating whopping $112 per square foot in revenue that makes $4.8 million per acre while the greens ranked next with $64 per square foot or $2.8 million per acre.
3. Buy quality greenhouse canopy
Indoor farming won’t possible unless you shade it with a high-quality greenhouse canopy which protects your crop from extreme sunlight, rain, heavy dust, insects, pollution and animal attacks. Greenhouse canopies can be found in different shapes, sizes and materials such as glass, Polycarbonate, Polyethylene Plastic film, Polyethylene Panels, Fiberglass, Acrylic, and vinyl as per your needs and budget.
4. Greenhouse farming is more productive
Indoor horticulture including microgreens, herbs, greens and vine crops is 170 times far more productive within its comparison to outdoor fields, and growing cannabis indoor than outdoor commodity crops such as corn and wheat is 9,000x more productive. So you have another reason to start with the indoor farming.
5. Indoor has quick growth and more harvest cycles
Harvest cycles? What does that mean? Well, the indoor farmers hold the exceptionally unique ability to customize the idyllic climatic environments which are more supportive. It directly leads to the massive extension of the number of growing seasons while the see-to-harvest times drop down. Take the indoor lettuce growers for an instance, they will have four times as many crops turn while the outdoor growers have just one year.
6. Indoor Farmers are less scared of climate controlled environment
Growing in a climate controlled environment is far more dependent on the climatic conditions. Nature forced disasters and sudden climatic changes have the poor impact on the growth of crops. So comparatively, indoor farmers have the small areas and for the reason, they can have more budgets to invest in technologies to improve the yield, operations, and crop quality.
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