There are only okra and sungold tomatoes in the garden this year. It is an environment inhospitable to gardening. Ive decided to just do what i can with the greenhouse and grow lights. They are both rather flexible and tolerant plants.
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A Friend Brings my Original Greenhouse Design to Fruition
When i first began the project of adding grow lights to the greenhouse, i very much didnt know where to start. I was overwhelmed with which lights to pick and where to get them from. There were so many options. How was i to know which would be good for what i needed them for? …
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The Greenhouse Remodel
So, when i began the project of installing grow lights in the greenhouse last year, i envisioned lights hanging down 7 foot chains that could be adjusted to be shorter as the plants grew. I figured i would start with the lights right above the little seedlings and then raise them up higher and higher …
A Glimpse of the Future
Lately the temperature at night has been hovering right around freezing and ive been leaving the greenhouse lights on overnight to keep it a bit warmer in there considering theres two open wall vents that let the outdoor air in even when i close the windows. That means the roses in there have had 24 …
Roses
These roses are meant to be a deep maroon but must reside in the greenhouse due to requiring protection from biblical amounts of grasshoppers. im hoping once i bring the lights down closer those roses will darken up considerably, but without fail they still smell amazing, especially the blush colored ones.
My First Salad from the Garden
On this day i decided to use up the lettuce as it was getting too hot to have it in the garden anymore. I made a little salad from lettuce, spinach, basil, and tomatoes from the garden. I added avocado and chickpeas from the fridge. It was pretty good with some vegan dressing and umami …
Electricity in the Greenhouse
Before i bought the property i live on now i spent about a decade living in apartments. I had balcony gardens. I had courtyard gardens. I had hanging gardens…but i always had a garden of some sort. I did fairly well for having everything in containers. I grew roses and double blossom hibiscus, herbs and …
The Fruit Growing Hack of Produce Bags
The grasshoppers eat all my berries. They eat everything! I figured out a hack a couple years ago. I go buy mesh produce bags with a cinch cord at the grocery store and put them over young berries. It allows them to grow while hidden away from the grasshoppers reach. Then when its ripe i …
Chicken Poop Fertilizer
My friend and neighbor has a pretty extensive garden with an impressive deer fence. Im pretty sure its bigger than my one room house. She expressed some interest in utilizing some of the chicken poop as fertilizer. Ive done this before. A little goes a long way and it works great for flowering plants. I …
The Greenhouse Tenants
My main objective here is not to grow food. If food results that will be lovely but ultimately i want a room where i can be surrounded by healthy thriving greenery and after a hard day of peopling, i can go in there and just be with plants. So i have selected food plants and …