Why are vegetables and herbs are sometimes expensive.

Many people come to the market to notice that there are cheaper and vegetables have really expensive and can not understand why. I'll try to paint the picture and text of what constitutes a high price for local vegetables and herbs and cheap Turkish and others. Three years ago, my parents bought a house in the private sector, Togliatti, and two years ago it was decided to build a little greenhouse at the site, so to speak rukozhopstvo show, for an open-air nifiga not growing the drought it rains. Notice the neighbor's greenhouse: Not the fountain!

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2. It was decided to go the other way, so whip up a draft was drawn a small teplichke, which really was altered several times in the course of implementation. It was based gable arrangement. Material frame steel profiled pipes and profiles for plasterboard (to facilitate construction) Since in our city last four winter the temperature often drops of minus 35 degrees Celsius, it was decided to produce a greenhouse double-layer outer layer of polycarbonate 8mm metal profile 50 mm and an inner layer cell polycarbonate 4mm. The length of the main part of the 13m width of 6m. Plus, it was decided to implement a small dressing room for hoznuzhd. Said, done:



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6. Important Notice on the inner surface of the greenhouse postyanoo condenses excess moisture, so it is important to control the humidity



7. Heating was decided to carry out of the house, replaced a gas boiler with a more powerful 24 kW to 40 kW have changed, held up a heating greenhouses, they warmed her buried where they could



8. well, but in the greenhouse positioned emergency backup electric boiler



9. Heating done on plastic pipes with bimetallic radiators



10. That's how it looks today, the beds inside the greenhouse were raised to 50 cm for better warming of the earth



11. As the two types of lighting used 400W lamps DNase is sodium lamp with mirrored bulb for increased light output, fluorescent lamps series of cold light color



12. As consumers of electricity are very powerful, and their starting currents can make any home was taken to set the grid voltage to 12 kW



13. It is said that the Jews are very smart, and I do not remember who said: The Jews have come up with two important things for mankind Bible and drip irrigation, and because my family acts absolute atheism, we decided to use the second Jewish invention, drip, ordered his way in Israel, everything is cheap and fast.



14. Irrigation tubes buried in the ground to the surface of the earth in the beds possibly more remained dry.



15. And actually from the water, the water stretched along with the heating pipes, installed inside the greenhouse and container bottoms, before there was chemistry, but it was washed, painted in black, in the hope that the water in it will be warmed by the sun (naive) ...



16. As the water in the tank did not want to be warmed by the sun, and the cold water when watering cucumbers for them disastrous, I had to splurge and buy a water-heater ....



17. Our biggest store fertilizers, more than two hundred and fifty liter drum. Generally, when you say that the cucumbers grown in the month of March without fertilizers is nonsense, all greenhouse without fertilizers is nonsense, this can not be, because it can not be totally different question in farming techniques, if done correctly, cucumber smell of cucumber , taste sweet, not watery, if the seeds of good that gorech completely absent, all the seeds in Russia is a separate fraudulent history, for it is possible to tell for a long time, but go back to the fertilizer, so the formation of the beds was used for drainage expanded clay and sand, soil used on the half-neutralized peat in a greenhouse to give 5 cubic meters of peat. But it's the lyrics during the active growing season and early fruiting cucumbers require a huge amount of potassium and phosphorus in the greenhouse it is especially because the light is very small, we did not Turkey sorry ... so you need three or even four customary rules when compared to the open field and June month.



18. But the best fertilizer is the infusion of herbs, chicken and cow manure, it does not say .... Infused two weeks, and then actively fed



19. Our water has a very high pressure, well, we have to somehow automatically carry out irrigation, so set up a simple cottage pump



20. Control of water when watering is simple way, jars, under one of the droppers ...



21. And returning to fertilizers and potassium, it is certainly we had to use potash fertilizers, but to reduce their number (well, actually five times the normal number), it was decided to use ferrigatsiyu with the addition of minerals in irrigation water when watering ...



22. Also on the flora is very beneficial (in particular, photosynthesis) of carbon dioxide in the ambient air, so guileless used to fuel system with two alternating carbon-dioxide cylinders ... refuel.



23. In order to control the amount of carbon dioxide even purchased a special instrument, pleased that he had a temperature and humidity meriet and has a memory of minimum and maximum indicators and audible alarm levels of carbon dioxide ...



24. It is also very important for cucumbers is turned heated root system, yield 14% higher, so all the garden beds were made pipes for heating the roots, also important is the loosening of soil and other agrohitrosti and agro vebyvaniya ... but heard somewhere that plants grow better if their roots fed oxygen, so the beds were introduced in the pipe for supplying oxygen from the air roots and installed in a waiting room compressor to pump it back



25. A reduced heating in the return line of the heating system



26. But this is not very cool, very cool is not something that the greenhouse can be cold, but on the contrary, it can be very hot, so it is necessary to provide a ventilation system, the passive, but rather forced here this afternoon from 8 am to 17 heat the greenhouse is off and the air temperature 26 and is included in the four high-performance rack-mount fan, if not included would be for 30 and a bust ...



27. Also, turn on a little further still the top two fan temperature sensor and timer



28. And here is actually the brain of the greenhouse, a lot of timers ...



29. Well, there is certainly a version of that music helps plants to grow, I personally do not believe this garbage, but just in case, put in a greenhouse music center, which from 9 am to 21 pm plants broadcasts classical music, and to be honest day of work greenhouse pleasant when the music plays ...



30. Yes, actually cucumbers Now here are



29. Well, there is certainly a version of that music helps plants to grow, I personally do not believe this garbage, but just in case, put in a greenhouse music center, which from 9 am to 21 pm plants broadcasts classical music, and to be honest day of work greenhouse pleasant when the music plays ...



31. This is my mother, concurrently chief agronomist shows what must be the leaves have a cucumber when to plant all fucking



32. So how to grow cucumbers, respectively ...



33. That is, they, too ...



34. But in the waiting room on the shelves forming ears chives



35. In order to carry it all to the market was bought rattletrap-Rydvan-sable
And now the case, capital expenditures have been vkinuty you imagine, well, if you can not imagine it's about 520 thousand rubles as well, plus weaving on Rydvan on lap 620 thousand rubles, but this is only the materials, all made their rukozhopymi hands manually without the use of specialized equipment. Monthly electricity bills 3000, 6000 gas, 1000 water. 1000 gas-fuel for rattletrap. Work every day including weekends and holidays the plants they live and could die, the word vacation and booze for them is not known. Well, actually the basis of this and formed the real price of cucumbers and greens on the market, significantly (50-60% higher) than the churbanskoy products optovki when you see the market expensive vegetables, think maybe not just charged that price, from I still break!



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