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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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 …
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 Plants Misjudged the Timing of the Last Frost
In the house the redbud tree, crape myrtle, and blackberry bush began to wake up from their slumber. In their minds, winter hibernation was over. Unfortunately, most of my fruit trees in the ground followed suit. Winter was not over by a long shot. In one week it would be 13 degrees and everything that …
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Century Plant
It got confused as to which way was up. This agave is in fact putting up a spine…its just curved and kind of stuck in the fence. Anyways, this is its last hurrah as after this action the plant dies.
A Garden Update
The trees are growing, especially the pomegranate tree. The plants in the green house need more sun so i contacted an electrician about running electricity to the greenhouse and making several outlets to plug grow lights into above the windows. Right now those plants grow pretty slowly but i stand by my decision to not …
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 …
50 Bags of Dirt
I had to buy plants before i had the greenhouse ready or the boxes set up because the nurseries only sell certain plants during certain weeks and they really only have vegetables at all for the month of april. By may 1st everything is gone and its back to flowers. So i had some plants …
New Growth
Over the next month everything began to come out of its winter dormancy and begin producing new leaves and flowers. The new trees that looked like bare sticks when i bought them produced buds and sprouted leaves. The old trees came back as well. Even the muscat grape vine returned. It was the last to …