A Greenhouse Visit

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After the meetup with my brother on Friday, we drove to a relative's greenhouse farm to pick up some seedlings that we pre-ordered last month. Although this was our second time ordering (the first ones were delivered to us), we had not been there before so my cousin sent us a video of the route and notable landmarks that we were to follow so we wouldn't get lost. And so our journey began.

After some 20 minutes or so driving from the main highway, we finally reached a very quiet neighborhood. I was so excited and after meeting Mr. P, the greenhouse's caretaker, and asking if we could take a look around while waiting for the owners, I went on to explore the place.

The farm specializes in growing cabbage seedlings and while they just started around last year, it's a continuous and thriving business. It takes about 25 days to a month from sowing the seeds to being ready for replanting. I would say the return on investment (ROI) is quite fast. Except greenhouse construction is pretty costly.



This smaller greenhouse is very lengthy with hundreds of pallets and accordingly, contained about 1,500 trays or approximately 192k seedlings. It has been installed with sprinklers which when turned on, evenly water everything therein.

It was a hot day so you can imagine it's also very hot inside the structure.



The other one is a lot larger. It houses 3,500 trays or almost half a million seedlings. All cabbage and Chinese cabbage seedlings are ready for replanting and we were one of the first groups to take our orders so the greenhouses are still filled with them.

Some pallets in the middle are empty and I learned that they started sowing seeds again on Saturday.


They use compost soil in each tray that they used to buy from others but according to Mr. P, they are doing their own compost now and these are just some of it. While there, we learned that they wash the trays after each round before they start filling them again with soil and sowing new seedlings in them.



Anyhow, the owners arrived and the workers started packing our orders. My husband and my brother went in to help, while Ahjay and I stayed out feeling pretty, lol!

I was impressed at how fast they worked in taking out the seedlings from the trays and piling them up into the crates. The husband's orders plus my brother's emptied the whole stretch on the right side but were not enough they also took some in the second rows.



After the packing and being loaded, we were invited to lunch where we met some fur babies. There were 5 in the household if I'm not mistaken but Maria is the friendliest of them. She loved being made to dance, lol!



We spent some time looking around the place. It's peaceful there and the views are quite amazing too.

The visit was an enlightening and learning experience too. The owners have plans to make the greenhouses even more sustainable in the future and will adopt best practices like using organic and environmentally friendly stuff. That won't be the first and last, we will be visiting again, very soon!


Thank you for coming along on this wee adventure of ours and this is my participation in this month's Garden Journal challenge.

All photos are my own. 05102023/10:30ph

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Interesting Green house. Not planted on the ground. Do they plant with just water?
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The scenario of greenhouse is looking good and I am sure that you enjoyed that place very well. In our country there is no green house because we don't need it. Naturally plants grow very well in our place.
By the way thank you for sharing your amazing experience 🙂.

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A greenhouse like this is what some farmers, including me, want, especially since it has a large capacity capable of producing lots of plant seeds. It was incredible.

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I agree. The demand for plant seedlings especially for cabbages is high here in our place and greenhouses like that we visited are doing good business. 1 tray (about 120 seedlings) costs almost $4.

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Yes it is very good to run, a great business opportunity.

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Very true. Would be nice to have one, even a smaller size to start with😉

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The greenhouse is very big, but that Dog caught my attention the most, it's so adorable.

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Yes and haha, Maria is a sweet girl :)

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Yuhh can't imagine how many times greenhouse keeper spends to plant this cabbage seedlings and how many water they use at once to water all this seedlings. 🤔

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We asked how many trays they can do in a day and the keeper said around 700. Sowing is a tough job.

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Ang ganda! Yan ang dream ko kaso mahal.

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Oo,milyones dn ang gastos sa construction. Pero once na nagawa, ok na. Basta wala lang typhoon na sisira.

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Very nice greenhouse - so many cabbages. I have never visited a greenhouse- you must have been so impressed. Nice dog as well.

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They are. And yes, I was impressed. Hope to visit another one which is being built with a digital system.

Thank you :)

!LADY

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Wow that is huge green house. I imagine that is hard job keeping up with intake but also with the supply & demand.

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Yes, the owners did mention the demand is too high for them to be able to cater to. They are having another one built and construction will start soon.

!PIZZA

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Wow!
The greenhouse actually caught my attention
It is bigger that the ones that I have ever seen

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I love the greenhouse that you visited. It is actually my dream to build my own little green house to be used as my personal garden.

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I bet you can build one in the near future :) I also want one but still remains a plan. Hope to one day make it happen.😊

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I love how huge the area of this greenhouse sis. My friend once had a greenhouse of bell pepper here in Bukidnon during the pandemic but now he shifted to sweet peppers. I so love the area! Beat regards.

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That was a fun read. I'm not sure who plants all of those seedlings when they're ready to be transplanted outdoors, but whoever does has to have a backache the next day.😁

Is it possible that they sell all of those seedlings to the public and never have to transplant any of them into the field.

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