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Winter garden

https://wiki2.org/en/Winter_garden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winter garden at Myddelton House, London Borough of Enfield, England

Winter garden at Myddelton House, London Borough of Enfield, England

win­ter garden is a kind of gar­den main­tained in win­ter­time.

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History

The ori­gin of the win­ter gar­den dates back to the 17th to 19th cen­turies where Eu­ro­pean no­bil­ity would con­struct large con­ser­va­to­ries that would house trop­i­cal and sub­trop­i­cal plants and would act as an ex­ten­sion of their liv­ing space. Many of these would be at­tached to their main palaces. Ear­lier ver­sions would be con­structed of ma­sonry with large win­dows and a glass roof, usu­ally in the Clas­si­cal or Gothic styles.[1] While in the 19th cen­tury many of these con­ser­va­to­ries were made out of iron and curvi­lin­ear glass. Win­ter gar­dens were not just re­stricted to pri­vate res­i­dence, many were built for the greater pub­lic. The first large pub­lic win­ter gar­den was built in 1842–46 in Re­gent’s Park in Lon­don and was used for evening oc­ca­sions, large flower shows and so­cial gatherings.[2] Other win­ter gar­dens, such as the Crys­tal Palace by Sir Joseph Pax­ton in 1851, were soon built and used for a va­ri­ety of pur­poses.

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Al­right! This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com,
today we have an­other ex­cit­ing episode, but
be­fore I start the episode, I want to wish
every­body out there, all my view­ers that are
watch­ing, a very happy new year, and to have
the best gar­den­ing sea­son in 2015 and if you’re
not al­ready gar­den­ing, I want you guys to
start gar­den­ing, now is the time to start
plan­ning, you know, order seeds, get them
started so that you will have them after theCon­tinue reading…

Present

The mod­ern win­ter gar­den is usu­ally a gar­den planted ei­ther to pro­duce food, or at least to re­main vis­i­bly planted and slowly de­velop, through­out the win­ter, or else a gar­den whose plants will serve as liv­ing dec­o­ra­tion all win­ter. One basic premise, in tem­per­ate or colder re­gions, to the win­ter gar­den is that the plants may in­deed be­come dor­mant when snow cov­ers the ground, but will grow each time the sun heats at least part of the plant to above freez­ing (snow or not), es­pe­cially in re­gions where snow cover and be­low-freez­ing tem­per­a­tures are not con­stant for months at a time.

Veg­eta­bles that are typ­i­cally, or can be, used in a win­ter gar­den in­clude:

  • Several breeds of winter-hardy cabbage
  • Specific winter-hardy breeds of broccoli
  • Winter rye is grown where a summer garden will be, in order to protect the ground from weeds, and provide soil amendment when tilled directly into the soil the following spring
  • beets
  • carrots
  • alliums—onions, chives, and their relatives are evergreen, though some may die back during the winter and recover in the spring.
  • oregano (including marjoram) — known to hardily survive the winter up to Zone 5

See also

References

  1. ^ Hix, John. The Glasshouse. Phaidon Press Limited. London. 1996.
  2. ^ Kohlmaier, Georg. Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type. The MIT Press. Cambridge MA. 1991.
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The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
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Growing Plants inhttps://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space Space

NASA's Matt Romeyn works in the Veggie Lab of the Space Station Processing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center.

NASA’s Matt Romeyn works in the Crop Food Production Research Area of the Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Credits: NASA/Cory Huston

Scott Kelly photographed a bouquet of zinnias in the space station cupola against the backdrop of Earth

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Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control system are being harvested in Kennedy's Flight Equipment Development Laboratory

Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control system are being harvested in the Flight Equipment Development Laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy. A similar zinnia harvest was conducted by astronaut Scott Kelly on the International Space Station.Credits: NASA/Bill White

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor harvests red Russian kale and dragoon lettuce from Veggie on Nov. 28, 2018.

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor harvests red Russian kale and dragoon lettuce from Veggie on Nov. 28, 2018, just in time for Thanksgiving. The crew got to enjoy a mid-afternoon snack with balsamic vinegar, and Auñón-Chancellor reported the lettuce was “delicious!”Credits: ESA/Alexander Gerst

John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with Kennedy's Test and Operations Support Contract, opens APH Flight Unit No.1

John “JC” Carver, a payload integration engineer with Kennedy’s Test and Operations Support Contract, opens the door to the growth chamber of the Advanced Plant Habitat Flight Unit No. 1 for a test harvest of half of the Arabidopsis thaliana plants growing within.Credits: NASA/Leif Heimbold

The first growth test of crops in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station.

The first growth test of crops in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station yielded great results. Arabidopsis seeds – small flowering plants related to cabbage and mustard – grew for about six weeks, and dwarf wheat for five weeks.Credits: NASA

As humans explore space, we will want to bring plants for both aesthetic and practical reasons. We already know from our pioneering astronauts that fresh flowers and gardens on the International Space Station create a beautiful atmosphere and let us take a little piece of Earth with us on our journeys. They’re good for our psychological well-being on Earth and in space. They also will be critical for keeping astronauts healthy on long-duration missions.

A lack of vitamin C was all it took to give sailors scurvy, and vitamin deficiencies can cause a number of other health problems. Simply packing some multi-vitamins will not be enough to keep astronauts healthy as they explore deep space. They will need fresh produce.

Right now on the space station, astronauts receive regular shipments of a wide variety of freeze-dried and prepackaged meals to cover their dietary needs – resupply missions keep them freshly stocked. When crews venture further into space, traveling for months or years without resupply shipments, the vitamins in prepackaged form break down over time, which presents a problem for astronaut health.  

NASA is looking at ways to provide astronauts with nutrients in a long-lasting, easily absorbed form—freshly grown fresh fruits and vegetables. The challenge is how to do that in a closed environment without sunlight or Earth’s gravity.

Veggie

The Vegetable Production System, known as Veggie, is a space garden residing on the space station. Veggie’s purpose is to help NASA study plant growth in microgravity, while adding fresh food to the astronauts’ diet and enhancing happiness and well-being on the orbiting laboratory. The Veggie garden is about the size of a carry-on piece of luggage and typically holds six plants. Each plant grows in a “pillow” filled with a clay-based growth media and fertilizer. The pillows are important to help distribute water, nutrients and air in a healthy balance around the roots. Otherwise, the roots would either drown in water or be engulfed by air because of the way fluids in space tend to form bubbles.

In the absence of gravity, plants use other environmental factors, such as light, to orient and guide growth. A bank of light emitting diodes (LEDs) above the plants produces a spectrum of light suited for the plants’ growth. Since plants reflect a lot of green light and use more red and blue wavelengths, the Veggie chamber typically glows magenta pink.To date, Veggie has successfully grown a variety of plants, including three types of lettuce, Chinese cabbage, mizuna mustard, red Russian kale and zinnia flowers. The flowers were especially popular with astronaut Scott Kelly, who picked a bouquet and photographed it floating in the cupola against the backdrop of Earth. Some of the plants were harvested and eaten by the crew members, with remaining samples returned to Earth to be analyzed. One concern was harmful microbes growing on the produce. So far, no harmful contamination has been detected, and the food has been safe (and enjoyable) for the crew to eat.

Our team at Kennedy Space Center envisions planting more produce in the future, such as tomatoes and peppers. Foods like berries, certain beans and other antioxidant-rich foods would have the added benefit of providing some space radiation protection for crew members who eat them.

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