Pond Pumps to Circulate Water in Your Greenhouse

Pond pumps can help you conserve water and control the temperature in your greenhouse.

A simple pump can reduce the temperature in the summer and can help you warm the greenhouse in the winter. In addition, using a pond pump to circulate water in your greenhouse may contribute to the health of your plants and save you time in the process.

There are several ways that pumps are being used to save water and to make the greenhouse environment more productive. One way that a pond pump circulation can be used is by heating the root zone of your plants. In order to accomplish this you’ll need a water heater, a pond pump, pipes, and controls to operate your system. In addition, you would need clamps and fittings. It’s recommended that you select plastic pipes that can withstand 100 PSI of water pressure. The piping is buried a few inches under the soil, and the circulating water nourishes the plant and warms the soil. If your goal is to drop the temperature in the greenhouse you may want to start laying tubing to the farthest side of the greenhouse and coil the tubing through the beds. The longer the water circulates in the greenhouse the more profound the cooling effect.

Another way that inventive growers have used pond pumps to heat the air in the green house is to use the pond pump to circulate water to pass through manure. The manure breaks down with watering as generates heat. The resulting heat warms the air inside the space of the greenhouse. This process can be messy and time consuming, but many gardeners are improving the process.

Another interesting way to use a pond pump to circulate greenhouse water is to simply use it to irrigate to water the plants in the greenhouse. This process is fairly simple but does require some consideration. For example, where is the water source and what size pond pump to use. In a dry climate this procedure can be used to reduce water consumption providing that you have a source that allows the water to be recycled in an effective way. For example f you have a pond on the property, water could be diverted to the greenhouse. If you don’t then you’ll have to have some sort of reservoir you may use large aquariums on either or both sides of the greenhouse. Some greenhouse growers have put ponds inside their greenhouses and have stocked them with fish!

If you are diverting water from an existing pond on the property a pond pump with 250 GPH, will probably provide enough power to circulate the water into the greenhouse, if for example, you have capacity in the pond of around 200 gallons. You can determine capacity by measuring length, width and depth of the pond. Another way to encourage the free flow of water throughout the greenhouse is to use gravity if possible. Further you can save on water by piggybacking timers along the system. By controlling the frequency of watering you can conserve water even more. Other greenhouse growers use rain catcher as a partial source of water for their reservoirs. Water catchers are great in environments with moderate annual rainfall, but may be of little use in a desert region.
Pond pumps can be used in numerous ways to circulate water in your greenhouse.

All you need to have to get started is the willingness to explore the possibilities and benefits of implementing this kind of system. Gardeners around the country are experimenting with pond pumps to create systems ideally suited to the growing conditions and climate in their regions. For the creative greenhouse grower, the possibilities are endless. Using simple pond pumps can increases the efficiency of water usage and in addition reduces costs associated with climate control inside their greenhouses.

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